Clovis Lynn White Gibson 94, passed on to the other side, from this life we know on July 11, 2022 in San Saba, Texas.  Clovis was born February 10, 1928, at Bend Texas to John Lynn White and Vada Millican White. She grew up in Bend. Then at an early age the family moved to Georgetown and Elgin.  She attended most of her school years in Georgetown.  She worked hard on their place and helped to thrash and gather pecans; she went with her family one summer to Montana to hoe/pick beets.  She loved hunting, baseball, and rodeoing.  She and her brother Dimmitt would travel together to rodeo or she and her best friend, Janette would go rodeo together. She barrel raced, participated in calf roping, and rode Brahma bulls.  One year at the Taylor Rodeo she was an exhibitionist buffalo rider.

The family then moved back to Bend, after her teen years, and that's where she met Foy Gibson. They were later married on February 5, 1949 at 2 ^nd and Wallace Street Church of Christ in San Saba.  They were married 61 years when Foy passed away.  She was a member of the Church of Christ. She attended church in Lometa, San Saba, and Bend.

There was quite the tale of their marriage,  when at that time, people in the community would try to catch the newly married couple on their honeymoon and give them a "Shiveree" as people did quite often back in those days.  Foy and Clovis could hear them in a gang coming toward their house, so they rushed out in the cold of February and went to the neighbors or elsewhere hiding out until the gang gave up the search for the night. One time the couple hid just up the road at Tom and Betsy Scott's house where it was warm while they were gone from the house hunting for the couple.  After several weeks, everyone gave up "hunting" for the couple, so Foy and Clovis threw a big party instead for the neighbors that had been hunting them.

Clovis farmed and ranched with Foy and his brother "Hap" .  They lived on the family farm at Bend until his passing.  They raised cattle, wheat, corn, milo, and harvested cotton, peas, hay, and peanuts where she threshed, helped harvest and sacked the peanuts in the field.  She made many a trip to San Saba and Hamilton pulling trailers full of cotton to the gins.

Clovis and Foy were partners with Hap, operating a farm and ranch supply store in Lometa, until Hap passed in 1995.  She continued to help operate the store until they retired, before Foy's passing in 2010. Clovis worked as hard as the men on the farm and in the store, For many years she could be found driving the tractors, plowing, cutting crops or baling hay, driving the farm trucks. She could be seen loading 50-100 pounds sacks of feed, grain or fertilizer at the feed store or helping process and sack their own corn and wheat at the farm.

She played in a women's softball league for many years in Bend and Lampasas (Lampasas Strikers).  She could hit many a homerun over the fence. For several years she entered the Chili Cook off in Lometa.  She generally always wore jeans, belt, western shirts, and a cap.  She always kept a pocketknife in her pants pocket and matches, because "you never know when you'll have a need for them", and always had change in her pocket.  She did get to travel quite a bit in her later years with Foy, visiting several states when he was a member of the Texas Wheat Producers Board. She was a hard worker all her life and that's all she knew and did until she was elderly and fell. She instilled a work hard ethic in her children and grandchildren.  She was strong in stature and spirit and had a good dry sense of humor.

She was preceded in her death by her parents, Lynn and Vada White,  Brothers, Dimmitt, Chauncey Tom (killed in WWII), John L., Jim, and Joe White.  Two sisters, Prebble Sundbeck, and Lynada Sybert; also 1 niece, Joy Welch, and 1 nephew Arvid Sundbeck.

Clovis is survived by her 4 children,  Clovia Ketchum and her husband Tommy of Bend, Grady Gibson and his wife Diana of Bend, LaVada McCoury and her husband Gregg of San Saba and Glen "Handy" Gibson and his wife Cathy of Bend.  She has four grandchildren, Michelle McCoury Lock and husband Jeremiah of Marble Falls, Josh McCoury and wife Brooke of Poolville, Carol Gibson of Bend, and Brenda Gibson May and her husband Gunner of Earth.  She has one great granddaughter, Logan Lock and one great grandson, Rylyn McCoury.  Also she is survived by three step grandsons, Colt Clements, Chase Clements and Tye Hill and their families. She is survived by 11 nieces and nephews.

You may make contributions in honor of Clovis Gibson to:

Bend Sandhill Cemetery

22261W FM 580

Lometa, Texas  76853