Audrey Lee (Field) Gibson, age 95, departed this life to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, February 5, 2022, at SunPorch of Smith County in Smith Center, KS. She passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with covid and age related complications from progressing dementia.
On June 14, 1926, Audrey Lee was born to Banks Avery Field and Delilah Fern (Brewer) Field at a farm near Formoso, KS. The oldest of their four children, she was joined three years later by sister Ruth Colleen, five years later by sister Margaret Janice, and sixteen years later by brother Stephen Banks. Her father managed the Formoso Co-op filling station while her mother was a homemaker. Growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, she developed a love for children and teaching at an early age.
Audrey attended grades K through 12 in Formoso graduating with the Class of 1944. Upon graduation, she went one year to Fort Hays State before teaching five eighth graders in a two room school at Lovewell. After her first year of teaching, she retuned to Fort Hays State for another year to obtain a teaching certificate that allowed her to teach language arts to seventh and eighth graders at Mankato junior high for four years. Audrey pursued summer school and continuing education classes to ultimately earn a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Fort Hays State in the summer of 1961.
During her third year of teaching at Mankato, she met the earthly love of her life. Audrey was united in marriage to Dr. Charles "Doc" Howard Gibson, Jr. on August 18, 1950, at the Formoso Christian Church. Doc and Audrey were committed in their marriage to serving the Lord and supporting each other's respective ministries - his in the chiropractic field and hers in teaching. They celebrated over 55 years of devotion before Doc departed for Heaven on February 18, 2006. Their daughter and only child, Jill Joann, was born to this union.
Following her daughter's birth, Audrey took a six year recess from teaching while the family moved from Superior, Mankato and Hill City before finally settling in Smith Center in 1955.
In 1957 Audrey accepted what was a temporary position to teach fourth grade at Smith Center Elementary School and continued to teach fourth grade there for 35 years until her retirement in 1992. Although she was recognized as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America in 1975, is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers, and received numerous awards for her innovative teaching and community service, Audrey
would humbly tell you that she simply loved her students and enjoyed teaching.
One of the most important things in Audrey's life was her relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up she regularly attended Sunday school and church at the Formoso Christian Church. During a camp meeting with the church's high school youth group the summer she turned sixteen, Audrey responded to an altar call and trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior. Upon marriage, she transferred her church membership to Methodist. Audrey was very active in the Smith Center United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school to fifth, sixth and junior high students for over twenty-five years as well as served faithfully in many of their ministries including the Methodist Lay Witness Movement of 1970. From this experience, she developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In 1997, she followed her husband and joined the Smith Center Evangelical Free Church where she was a regular attender and participant in their women's ministries until she entered the nursing home in 2017. Even at the nursing home, Audrey went to the nursing home church services and Bible studies when able.
Never one to be idle, Audrey liked being busy. She was a lifetime member of both Delta Kappa Gamma and the Gideon Auxiliary, a Hospice volunteer from 1992 to 1999, an avid golfer, a world and bus trip traveler, an excellent cook and baker, and a participant in activities too numerous to mention. She enjoyed spending time with her family, socializing, reading the Bible, attending Bible studies, praying, and sharing the Gospel. She placed her faith in action through loving and serving and was blessed with a full life well lived for Jesus Christ.
Audrey is preceded in death by her beloved husband Doc, her parents Banks and Delilah Field, her brother Steve Field, and a dear aunt Martha Isis (Brewer) Bowles.
Survivors left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Jill Gibson; sister, Ruth Berneking; sister, Margaret Dellett; numerous nephews and nieces; former students; caregivers; and friends.
Celebration Of Life Services will be on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 2:00PM at the Evangelical Free Church, Smith Center, KS, with Pastor Greg Hubbard officiating. Final resting place will be in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, KS.
Memorial Contributions may go to Hospice Services of Smith County; SunPorch of Smith County; Evangelical Free Church of Smith Center; and Gideon's International.
On June 14, 1926, Audrey Lee was born to Banks Avery Field and Delilah Fern (Brewer) Field at a farm near Formoso, KS. The oldest of their four children, she was joined three years later by sister Ruth Colleen, five years later by sister Margaret Janice, and sixteen years later by brother Stephen Banks. Her father managed the Formoso Co-op filling station while her mother was a homemaker. Growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, she developed a love for children and teaching at an early age.
Audrey attended grades K through 12 in Formoso graduating with the Class of 1944. Upon graduation, she went one year to Fort Hays State before teaching five eighth graders in a two room school at Lovewell. After her first year of teaching, she retuned to Fort Hays State for another year to obtain a teaching certificate that allowed her to teach language arts to seventh and eighth graders at Mankato junior high for four years. Audrey pursued summer school and continuing education classes to ultimately earn a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Fort Hays State in the summer of 1961.
During her third year of teaching at Mankato, she met the earthly love of her life. Audrey was united in marriage to Dr. Charles "Doc" Howard Gibson, Jr. on August 18, 1950, at the Formoso Christian Church. Doc and Audrey were committed in their marriage to serving the Lord and supporting each other's respective ministries - his in the chiropractic field and hers in teaching. They celebrated over 55 years of devotion before Doc departed for Heaven on February 18, 2006. Their daughter and only child, Jill Joann, was born to this union.
Following her daughter's birth, Audrey took a six year recess from teaching while the family moved from Superior, Mankato and Hill City before finally settling in Smith Center in 1955.
In 1957 Audrey accepted what was a temporary position to teach fourth grade at Smith Center Elementary School and continued to teach fourth grade there for 35 years until her retirement in 1992. Although she was recognized as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America in 1975, is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers, and received numerous awards for her innovative teaching and community service, Audrey
would humbly tell you that she simply loved her students and enjoyed teaching.
One of the most important things in Audrey's life was her relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up she regularly attended Sunday school and church at the Formoso Christian Church. During a camp meeting with the church's high school youth group the summer she turned sixteen, Audrey responded to an altar call and trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior. Upon marriage, she transferred her church membership to Methodist. Audrey was very active in the Smith Center United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school to fifth, sixth and junior high students for over twenty-five years as well as served faithfully in many of their ministries including the Methodist Lay Witness Movement of 1970. From this experience, she developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In 1997, she followed her husband and joined the Smith Center Evangelical Free Church where she was a regular attender and participant in their women's ministries until she entered the nursing home in 2017. Even at the nursing home, Audrey went to the nursing home church services and Bible studies when able.
Never one to be idle, Audrey liked being busy. She was a lifetime member of both Delta Kappa Gamma and the Gideon Auxiliary, a Hospice volunteer from 1992 to 1999, an avid golfer, a world and bus trip traveler, an excellent cook and baker, and a participant in activities too numerous to mention. She enjoyed spending time with her family, socializing, reading the Bible, attending Bible studies, praying, and sharing the Gospel. She placed her faith in action through loving and serving and was blessed with a full life well lived for Jesus Christ.
Audrey is preceded in death by her beloved husband Doc, her parents Banks and Delilah Field, her brother Steve Field, and a dear aunt Martha Isis (Brewer) Bowles.
Survivors left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Jill Gibson; sister, Ruth Berneking; sister, Margaret Dellett; numerous nephews and nieces; former students; caregivers; and friends.
Celebration Of Life Services will be on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 2:00PM at the Evangelical Free Church, Smith Center, KS, with Pastor Greg Hubbard officiating. Final resting place will be in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, KS.
Memorial Contributions may go to Hospice Services of Smith County; SunPorch of Smith County; Evangelical Free Church of Smith Center; and Gideon's International.
Audrey Lee (Field) Gibson, age 95, departed this life to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, February 5, 2022, at SunPorch of Smith County in Smith Center, KS. She passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with covid and age related complications from progressing dementia.
On June 14, 1926, Audrey Lee was born to Banks Avery Field and Delilah Fern (Brewer) Field at a farm near Formoso, KS. The oldest of their four children, she was joined three years later by sister Ruth Colleen, five years later by sister Margaret Janice, and sixteen years later by brother Stephen Banks. Her father managed the Formoso Co-op filling station while her mother was a homemaker. Growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, she developed a love for children and teaching at an early age.
Audrey attended grades K through 12 in Formoso graduating with the Class of 1944. Upon graduation, she went one year to Fort Hays State before teaching five eighth graders in a two room school at Lovewell. After her first year of teaching, she retuned to Fort Hays State for another year to obtain a teaching certificate that allowed her to teach language arts to seventh and eighth graders at Mankato junior high for four years. Audrey pursued summer school and continuing education classes to ultimately earn a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Fort Hays State in the summer of 1961.
During her third year of teaching at Mankato, she met the earthly love of her life. Audrey was united in marriage to Dr. Charles "Doc" Howard Gibson, Jr. on August 18, 1950, at the Formoso Christian Church. Doc and Audrey were committed in their marriage to serving the Lord and supporting each other's respective ministries - his in the chiropractic field and hers in teaching. They celebrated over 55 years of devotion before Doc departed for Heaven on February 18, 2006. Their daughter and only child, Jill Joann, was born to this union.
Following her daughter's birth, Audrey took a six year recess from teaching while the family moved from Superior, Mankato and Hill City before finally settling in Smith Center in 1955.
In 1957 Audrey accepted what was a temporary position to teach fourth grade at Smith Center Elementary School and continued to teach fourth grade there for 35 years until her retirement in 1992. Although she was recognized as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America in 1975, is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers, and received numerous awards for her innovative teaching and community service, Audrey
would humbly tell you that she simply loved her students and enjoyed teaching.
One of the most important things in Audrey's life was her relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up she regularly attended Sunday school and church at the Formoso Christian Church. During a camp meeting with the church's high school youth group the summer she turned sixteen, Audrey responded to an altar call and trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior. Upon marriage, she transferred her church membership to Methodist. Audrey was very active in the Smith Center United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school to fifth, sixth and junior high students for over twenty-five years as well as served faithfully in many of their ministries including the Methodist Lay Witness Movement of 1970. From this experience, she developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In 1997, she followed her husband and joined the Smith Center Evangelical Free Church where she was a regular attender and participant in their women's ministries until she entered the nursing home in 2017. Even at the nursing home, Audrey went to the nursing home church services and Bible studies when able.
Never one to be idle, Audrey liked being busy. She was a lifetime member of both Delta Kappa Gamma and the Gideon Auxiliary, a Hospice volunteer from 1992 to 1999, an avid golfer, a world and bus trip traveler, an excellent cook and baker, and a participant in activities too numerous to mention. She enjoyed spending time with her family, socializing, reading the Bible, attending Bible studies, praying, and sharing the Gospel. She placed her faith in action through loving and serving and was blessed with a full life well lived for Jesus Christ.
Audrey is preceded in death by her beloved husband Doc, her parents Banks and Delilah Field, her brother Steve Field, and a dear aunt Martha Isis (Brewer) Bowles.
Survivors left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Jill Gibson; sister, Ruth Berneking; sister, Margaret Dellett; numerous nephews and nieces; former students; caregivers; and friends.
Celebration Of Life Services will be on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 2:00PM at the Evangelical Free Church, Smith Center, KS, with Pastor Greg Hubbard officiating. Final resting place will be in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, KS.
Memorial Contributions may go to Hospice Services of Smith County; SunPorch of Smith County; Evangelical Free Church of Smith Center; and Gideon's International.
On June 14, 1926, Audrey Lee was born to Banks Avery Field and Delilah Fern (Brewer) Field at a farm near Formoso, KS. The oldest of their four children, she was joined three years later by sister Ruth Colleen, five years later by sister Margaret Janice, and sixteen years later by brother Stephen Banks. Her father managed the Formoso Co-op filling station while her mother was a homemaker. Growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, she developed a love for children and teaching at an early age.
Audrey attended grades K through 12 in Formoso graduating with the Class of 1944. Upon graduation, she went one year to Fort Hays State before teaching five eighth graders in a two room school at Lovewell. After her first year of teaching, she retuned to Fort Hays State for another year to obtain a teaching certificate that allowed her to teach language arts to seventh and eighth graders at Mankato junior high for four years. Audrey pursued summer school and continuing education classes to ultimately earn a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Fort Hays State in the summer of 1961.
During her third year of teaching at Mankato, she met the earthly love of her life. Audrey was united in marriage to Dr. Charles "Doc" Howard Gibson, Jr. on August 18, 1950, at the Formoso Christian Church. Doc and Audrey were committed in their marriage to serving the Lord and supporting each other's respective ministries - his in the chiropractic field and hers in teaching. They celebrated over 55 years of devotion before Doc departed for Heaven on February 18, 2006. Their daughter and only child, Jill Joann, was born to this union.
Following her daughter's birth, Audrey took a six year recess from teaching while the family moved from Superior, Mankato and Hill City before finally settling in Smith Center in 1955.
In 1957 Audrey accepted what was a temporary position to teach fourth grade at Smith Center Elementary School and continued to teach fourth grade there for 35 years until her retirement in 1992. Although she was recognized as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America in 1975, is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers, and received numerous awards for her innovative teaching and community service, Audrey
would humbly tell you that she simply loved her students and enjoyed teaching.
One of the most important things in Audrey's life was her relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up she regularly attended Sunday school and church at the Formoso Christian Church. During a camp meeting with the church's high school youth group the summer she turned sixteen, Audrey responded to an altar call and trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior. Upon marriage, she transferred her church membership to Methodist. Audrey was very active in the Smith Center United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school to fifth, sixth and junior high students for over twenty-five years as well as served faithfully in many of their ministries including the Methodist Lay Witness Movement of 1970. From this experience, she developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In 1997, she followed her husband and joined the Smith Center Evangelical Free Church where she was a regular attender and participant in their women's ministries until she entered the nursing home in 2017. Even at the nursing home, Audrey went to the nursing home church services and Bible studies when able.
Never one to be idle, Audrey liked being busy. She was a lifetime member of both Delta Kappa Gamma and the Gideon Auxiliary, a Hospice volunteer from 1992 to 1999, an avid golfer, a world and bus trip traveler, an excellent cook and baker, and a participant in activities too numerous to mention. She enjoyed spending time with her family, socializing, reading the Bible, attending Bible studies, praying, and sharing the Gospel. She placed her faith in action through loving and serving and was blessed with a full life well lived for Jesus Christ.
Audrey is preceded in death by her beloved husband Doc, her parents Banks and Delilah Field, her brother Steve Field, and a dear aunt Martha Isis (Brewer) Bowles.
Survivors left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Jill Gibson; sister, Ruth Berneking; sister, Margaret Dellett; numerous nephews and nieces; former students; caregivers; and friends.
Celebration Of Life Services will be on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 2:00PM at the Evangelical Free Church, Smith Center, KS, with Pastor Greg Hubbard officiating. Final resting place will be in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, KS.
Memorial Contributions may go to Hospice Services of Smith County; SunPorch of Smith County; Evangelical Free Church of Smith Center; and Gideon's International.
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