Mrs. Margaret Gauntt Gibson

Jeffcoat Funeral Home 255 Friendship Road Tallassee, AL 36078 Tel (334) 283-6801 Mrs. Margaret Gauntt Gibson of Homewood, Alabama, passed away Saturday, October 05, 2013, at Mount Royal Towers. Born in Tallassee Alabama on October 19, 1919, to Maggie Burton Gauntt and Dewitt T. Gauntt, she was married to Walter Van Buren Gibson who predeceased her. Margaret worked for 46 years as an executive secretary, retiring from Alabama Power Company in Birmingham after 26 years of service. A graduate of Tallassee High School, she attended Huntingdon College and served on the Huntingdon College National Alumni Board and remained a member of the Alumni Association. Margaret won the Alabama Music Club’s Hymn Playing contest in Montgomery, Alabama at age 12 and played the pipe organ for First United Methodist Church in Tallassee as organist for 26 years before moving to Birmingham. She was a faithful and devoted member of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church on Oxmoor Road in Homewood for the remainder of her life. She taught Sunday School at Dawson, beginning in 1950 and played piano for the Hispanic Church there from its inception in 1989 until she moved to Mount Royal Towers in 2008. Margaret continued to share her musical ability during her time at Mount Royal Towers and played for the Sunday Church Services there until early 2013, when her health declined. Margaret Gibson is survived by her brother, Joseph Gauntt of Tallassee, Alabama; sister, Josephine Gauntt Tucker of Manchester, Georgia; nieces, Debbie Hudgins, Margaret Brogdon, Mary Hogan and nephews, John Cottle III, Charles Cottle and Burton Gauntt. She is also survived by a number of great and great-great nieces, nephews and dear friends. Funeral services will be Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 11:00 am at Ridout’s Valley Chapel, Birmingham, Alabama, conducted by Dr. Bill Johnston and Rev. Bayron Mosquera. The family will receive friends at Valley Chapel 1 hour before the service. Interment will be Thursday at 3:00 pm at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tallassee, Alabama. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hispanic Ministry or the Educational Trust Fund of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Oxmoor Road in Birmingham, Alabama. Online condolences are available at: www.jeffcoatfuneralhome.com.