Clovis Lynn White Gibson, 94, died July 11, 2022 in San Saba.
Clovis was born Feb. 10, 1928 at Bend 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 rodeos or she and her best friend, Janette, would go 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 married on Feb. 5, 1949 at Second and Wallace Street Church of Christ in San Saba. They were married 61 years when Foy died.
She was a member of the Church of Christ. She attended church in Lometa, San Saba and Bend.
Clovis farmed and ranched with Foy and his brother “Hap.” They lived on the family farm at Bend until his death. They raised cattle, wheat, corn, milo and harvested cotton, peas, hay and peanuts where she helped harvest and sacked 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 died in 1995. She continued to help operate the store until they retired, before Foy’s death 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 and driving the farm trucks. She could load 50- to 100-pound sacks of feed, grain or fertilizer at the feed store or help 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). For several years, Clovis entered the chili cookoff in Lometa.
She traveled quite a bit in her later years with Foy, visiting several states when he was a member of the Texas Wheat Producers Board. She instilled a work ethic in her children and grandchildren. She was strong in stature and spirit and had a dry sense of humor.
She was preceded in death by brothers Dimmitt, Chauncey Tom (killed in WWII), John L., Jim and Joe White; two sisters, Prebble Sundbeck and Lynada Sybert; a niece, Joy Welch; and a nephew, Arvid Sundbeck.
Clovis is survived by her four children, Clovia Ketchum and husband Tommy of Bend, Grady Gibson and wife Diana of Bend, LaVada McCoury and husband Gregg of San Saba, and Glen “Handy” Gibson and wife Cathy of Bend; 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 husband Gunner of Earth; one greatgranddaughter, Logan Lock, and one great-grandson, Rylyn McCoury; three stepgrandsons, Colt Clements, Chase Clements and Tye Hill and their families; and 11 nieces and nephews.
Memorials in her name may be sent to Bend Sandhill Cemetery, 22261W. FM 580, Lometa, TX 76853.
