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MAJ. EDWIN W GIBSON
RETIRED OFFICIAL, DIES
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A graveside service was held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, at Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper for Maj. Edwin H. Gibson, 36, a retired state official, and former assemblyman, who died Monday at a Fredericksburg nursing home.
Major Gibson, a former assistant attorney general, ended 21 years’ service with the state In 1944 when he retired from his post as legal agent for the Division of Motor Vehicles.
A graduate of the University of Virginia law school, he served as Culpeper County Commonwealth Attorney for 12 year* before beginning his first term in the House of Delegates in 1916. He served as a delegate for eight years.
Major Gibson, whose first job with the Commonwealth was as as- - sistant prohibition commissioner/ was active in the movement for the repeal of prohibition in 1933. He was appointed assistant attorney general in 1927.
He was a major in the Virginia National Guard. After bis retirement, he moved from Richmond to Culpeper, where he practiced law until three years ago.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Beulah McCandless Gibson; four sons, Jonathan C. Gibson of Chicago and Edwin A., William J. and Ross S. Gibson of Fredericksburg; one daughter, Mrs. Frederick Dorwart of Muskogee, Okla.; nine grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild. |
Among those from Rappahannock in Culpeper Tuesday for the services were: Mrs. Wm. Meade Fletcher, Mr. A. H. Buckner and W. A. Miller.
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