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Funeral services for Rebecca “Becky” H. Gibson will be held at Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home, Friday, December 12, the family will receive friends from noon until 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home followed by the service in the funeral home chapel and interment in the family plot at Oak Ridge Memorial Park with Minister Johnny Fox of the Holladay Church of Christ in Cookeville, Tennessee, where Rebecca was a member, will conduct the services.
Rebecca Hamilton Gibson died on Monday, December 8, 2008. She is survived by many loving relatives and friends.
Rebecca was born on May 28, 1957 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She spent her childhood in Oak Ridge and graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1975. She furthered her education at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where she earned her degree in Microbiology. She later earned her MBA at Tennessee Technology University in Cookeville, Tennessee. After graduating from UT, Rebecca moved to Cookeville, Tennessee where she was a long time resident. An avid UT sports fan, she was herself a great outdoors person, hunting, fishing whenever possible, and enjoying her country home in Cookeville and her animals there.
Ms. Gibson had recently returned to live in Oak Ridge and was employed with LabCorp at the University of Tennessee Hospital as a Microbiologist. Her previous employment included the State of Tennessee and Cookeville General Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her father, John Henry “Jack” Gibson, Sr., her brother John Henry Gibson, Jr., and by her stepfather, Seymour “Sy” Levin.
She is survived by her mother Dorothy “Dot” DeBerry Levin of Oak Ridge; her sisters, Jane Gibson of Kingston and Claudia Simpson and husband, Lynn, and their son, John “Jack” Simpson of Harriman, and sister-in-law, Lil Gibson of Weeki Wachee, Florida. Also surviving Ms. Gibson are stepbrothers and stepsisters, Steve Levin and family of Clayton, North Carolina; Natalie Levin and fiancé Dennis Coohill of New York City; Charles Levin and wife, Annette, of Knoxville, and Margaret Levin of Boston. Aunts and an uncle who survive her are Maxine and Bill Vaden of Oak Ridge, Edith Jones of Bloomington Springs, Tennessee, and Nelle Evans of Joelton, Tennessee. Special friends include Bronda and Dean Hagood of Cookeville, Tennessee.Pallbearers will be Lynn Simpson, Charles Levin, Steve Levin, Dennis Coohill, Bill Jones, Forrest Evans, Dean Hagood, and Curtis Walters.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, East Tennessee Branch, 16504 Deane Hill Dr., Ste. C, Knoxville, TN, 37919, or to the charity of the giver’s choice.