Doris L. (Dodie) Gibbs died Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, at the Living Community on the Heartland Hospital campus. She was 92 and lived in her own home until a recent Mrs. Gibbs earned a high school degree and went on to accumulate college credit at Missouri Western. She retired from State Farm Insurance, where she worked for various agents after starting her career with agent Larry Ackley. She was one of thefirst secretaries in the region to earn her agent’s license. She was also a notary public.

Mrs. Gibbs was an active member of St. Francis Xavier Church and its Altar Society. As a member of the Thursday Quilting/Sewing Group, she coordinated the production of a raffle quilt each year. She also served several years on the church’s funeral lunch program and in the food pantry. She was a longtime member of the Piece Corps Quilt Guild, and made quilts for each of her six children and 11 grandchildren. Mrs. Gibbs was also a member of the Daughters of Isabella since 1953, and held several minor offices in that group.

She was born Jan. 10, 1921, in St. Joseph, the fifth of Grace and Francis Ray’s eight children. In 1939, she married George E. Fisher. He died in 1945 while serving in World War II. She married Charles M. Gibbs in 1952. He died in 1989. She was also preceded in death by her parents, Grace and Francis Ray; brothers, Lane, Earl, Dale, Bill and Gene; and sister, Wanda (Bonnie) Ackley. She is survived by one brother, Vern Ray of Savannah; six children, Linda Gibbs Rorig of Tucson, Ariz.; Kathy Gibbs Wesselius of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Judy Gibbs Robinson of Norman, Okla.; Gina Gibbs Witt of Lawrence, Kan.; Daniel M. Gibbs of St. Joseph; and Carol Gibbs Beckett of St. Joseph; three sons-in-law, Lewis Wesselius, Neil Robinson and Mark Witt; 11 grandchildren, Brian and Ben Rorig; Laura and Peter Wesselius; Nicholas and Emily Robinson; Grace and Anna Witt; Ian Charles and Julia Beckett; and Joseph M. (Gibbs) Johnson; two great-grandchildren, Mya Witt and Kyler Nelson, and sisters-in-law Charlotte Fisher Koenig and Marcy Fisher O’Meara.

Visitation will be from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel, 3609 Frederick Ave. A Daughters of Isabella Rosary will be recited at 4:00 PM Thursday at our chapel. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 2618 Seneca. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery.