Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gibson, Mary K. Raiford, 1963 

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MARY KETON RAIFORD GIBSON

   NORFOLK - Mrs. Mary Keton Gibson of 278 W. Ocean View Ave., civic leader, 
died early Wednesday in a Norfolk hospital after a brief illness.

   A funeral service was conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the Raiford home 
place near Zuni by the Rev. Charles E. Neal of Ocean View Baptist Church and 
the Rev. C.L. Gatling of Black Creek Baptist Church. Burial will be in the 
family cemetery.

   The widow of Clifford N. Gibson, she was born in Southampton County and 
lived in the Ocean View section of Norfolk 40 years. She was a daughter of 
Merritt L. and Mrs. Martha Darden Raiford of Southampton County.

   She was a member of Ocean View Baptist Church and past matron and current 
treasurer of Ocean View Chapter 34, Order of the Easter Star.

   She also was a member of Pickett-Buchanan Chapter, Daughters of the American 
Revolution, a former president of woman’s Democratic Voters League, and a 
member of Chesapeake Bay Art Association and Ocean View Garden Club.

   Surviving are a sister, Miss Alma L. Raiford of Zuni, and a brother R.H. 
Raiford of Tampa.

   Pallbearers were Edward Raiford, Edmond Raiford, Merritt Raiford, Hoen 
Edwards Jr., Otis Drake, Charles Gaugry, Robert Baum and Jethro Rhodes.

[birthdate from family records, which gave husband as Charles Noble Gibson] 

[Mary Keton (RAIFORD; Mrs. C.N.) GIBSON, 25 Jan 1887 - 6 Mar 1963, Norfolk, 
 interred in family cemetery, near Zuni, 8 Mar 1963, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 11, 1963] 

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