Vance Gibson

Vance P. Gibson

Vance P. Gibson 1949 ~ 2005 Vance P. Gibson, 56, of Kaysville, died of heart failure, March 13, 2005, at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born Jan. 16, 1949 in Payson to Roy E. and Emma Zoe Powell Gibson. He graduated from Juab High School in 1967. He attended Utah State University. In 1968, he was called as a missionary to Mexico for the LDS Church. He returned in 1970 and married Sonya Sue Sudweeks, Sept. 18, 1970 in the Manti LDS Temple. He studied printing at Utah Technical College at Salt Lake City and then went to work for his father at the Nephi Times-News. He and his brother, Allan, bought the paper in 1976 when their father retired. Vance was the editor and writer. He did much of the typesetting and job printing. He also was the Juab County correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune. He sold his half of the business to his brother in 1993 and moved to Logan, where he worked as a litho-camera operator, and then as a printer. Kidney failure forced him to quit work in 1995. He held an advanced-class amateur-radio license from the Federal Communications Commission (call sign KB7HY), and was fascinated by computers. He taught computer classes in the Juab School District adult-education program. He also liked to play chess. He served his church as a priesthood and gospel-doctrine teacher, as an assistant stake clerk, and as executive secretary to Pres. Lowell D. Curtis of the Nephi LDS Stake. He was first counselor to Bishop Lee Fowkes of the Nephi 2nd Ward and later second counselor to Bishop Russell M. Seamons of the Logan 23rd Ward. He was a member of Spencer LDS Ward and the Kaysville South LDS Stake high-priest quorum. He is survived by his wife, Sonya; eight children, Jason V. Gibson of Nephi; Angela Eckhardt of Spanish Fork; Allison Kelly of Mapleton; Kathy Thacker of Eureka; Valerie Anderson of Tooele; Kevin Gibson of Syracuse; Brian Gibson of Richmond; and Bobby Gibson of Kaysville; 15 grandchildren; a sister, Shirley R. Birrell of Ephraim; and two brothers, Allan R. Gibson of Nephi and Daryl R. Gibson of Las Vegas. Funeral services will be held at 11 am on Thursday, March 17, 2005, at the Main Street Chapel, 500 S. Main, Kaysville. Friends may call at the chapel on Wed. from 6-8 p.m., or on Thurs. one hour prior to the services. Burial will be at the Vine Bluff Cemetery in Nephi at 2 p.m. under the direction of Anderson Funeral Home.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on 3/15/2005