 Birth | September 23, 1908 29 26 |
 Birth of a sister | Alta M Gibson September 23, 1908 |
 Census | April 18, 1910 (Age 18 months) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Jonah C Troutman January 6, 1916 (Age 7 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 7 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 8 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 9 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Census | January 22, 1920 (Age 11 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 21 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Census | April 8, 1930 (Age 21 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Deliah Warner April 27, 1933 (Age 24 years) |
| Census | April 24, 1940 (Age 31 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 33 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Census | April 17, 1950 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 41 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a mother | Grace Kate Troutman May 3, 1961 (Age 52 years) |
| Death of a father | William Howard Gibson April 24, 1962 (Age 53 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 37 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
| Death of a sister | Gertrude Glenola Gibson July 24, 1990 (Age 81 years) |
| Death of a sister | Alta M Gibson November 9, 1998 (Age 90 years) |
 Death | May 3, 2001 (Age 92 years) |
| Obituary | Avis D Gibson Obituary May 5, 2001 (2 days after death) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum |