Etta Mae Gibbons ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Morris Township, Knox County, OH on April 1910. ²

1910 US Census
Sheet 13A, District 75, Family 215
Morris Township, Knox County, Ohio, United States
Etta M. Gibbons..Daughter..4..OH
(Living with parents.)

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• Her obituary was published in the Galion Inquirer on 31 July 1979 in Galion, OH.

^{3 4} Etta Mae Garverick, 73, of 9142 County Road 38, died at 7:30 this morning in Galion Community Hospital.

Born in Galion, Aug. 10, 1905, she was the daughter of Lewis B. and Estella A. (Rife) Gibbons.

Surviving are her husband, Kenneth M. Garverick and six sons, Harold, Howard and Richard Eugene Stroup; F. Dale and Charles Garverick, all of Galion; and Paul Stroup, Crestline.

Also surviving are 22 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Robert (Helen Viola) McDonald, California; three brothers, Robert J. and Russell E. Gibbons, both California and James L. Gibbons, Crestline and a half-brother, Thomas Laycox, of Chicago.

Services Friday at 1 p.m. at the Volk-Richardson Funeral Home will be officiated by seminarian Mark Freer. Calling hours are after 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and evening. Interment will be in Iberia Cemetery.

(Source: Galion Inquirer, 31 July 1979)
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• Her obituary was published in the Unknown newspaper after 31 July 1979 in Galion, OH.

⁵ Services for Mrs. Etta Mae (Gibbons) Garverick, 73, Galion, will be conducted at the Volk-Richardson Funeral Home here.

Seminarian Mark Freer will conduct the services at 1 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Iberia Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday and all day Thursday.

Mrs. Garverick died Tuesday morning at Galion Community Hospital.

She was born Aug. 10, 1905 in Galion.

Surviving are her husband, Kenneth M. Garverick; 6 sons, Harold Stroup, Howard Stroup, Richard Eugene Stroup, F. Dale Garverick and Charles Garverick of Galion and Paul Stroup of Crestline; 22 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are 3 brothers, Robert J. Gibbons and Russel E. Gibbons of California and James L. Gibbons of Crestline; a half brother, Thomas Laycox of Chicago, Ill.; and a sister, Mrs. Robert (Helen Viola) McDonald of California.

(Source: Unknown newspaper)
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• She was buried on 3 August 1979 in the Iberia Cemetery in Iberia, OH.

Find A Grave Memorial #14527768
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Etta married John David Stroup, son of Wade Hill Stroup and Lydia Jane Garverick, on 12 August 1922 in Crawford County, OH.¹ (John David Stroup was born on 10 April 1895 in Mount Gilead, OH,^{1 6} died on 21 February 1931 in Bucyrus, OH ⁶ and was buried after 21 February 1931 in Galion, OH ⁶.)

  Marriage Notes:

According to the marriage license, John David Stroup, was divorced when he married Etta Mae Gibbons. Etta Mae was only 16 years old at the time but lied about her birth year giving 1904 instead of 1905 thus making herself out to be 17.
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Etta next married Kenneth M. Garverick in September 1935. (Kenneth M. Garverick was born on 13 December 1902, died on 5 October 1984 and was buried on 8 October 1984 in Iberia, OH.)