SURRY – Olive W. Gibson, 87, died Dec. 12, 2005, at an Ellsworth hospital. She was born June 13, 1918, in Milton, Mass., the daughter of John and Eliza (Shaw) White. Olive received a bachelor’s degree from Simmons College in 1940, and worked at M.I.T. where she met her husband, Richard. They married in 1942, when Richard graduated and entered the service as a second lieutenant in the Signal Corps. After World War II they returned to M.I.T., where she worked for Dr. Paul Samuelson, nobelist in economics, while her husband attended graduate school. As a military wife for 25 years she lived in California, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., Colorado and Florida while raising a son and three daughters. In 1950, she and her husband purchased a summer home in Surry. Upon his retirement from the air force in 1967, the family moved permanently to Maine. Olive worked at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library and obtained a master’s degree in library science. She was active as a volunteer in many community, church and charitable organizations in the Surry-Blue Hill area. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, daughters, Virginia Gibson and husband, Dennis McConnell, Anne Gibson and husband, Jeffrey Dalrymple, Elizabeth Dyer and husband, Thomas; daughter-in-law, Holly Bixby; granddaughters, Samantha, Justine and Heather Dyer, Virginia and Amy Dalrymple. She was predeceased by her son, Richard C. Gibson Jr. A Memorial service celebrating Olive’s life will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at Blue Hill Congregational Church, Blue Hill. Arrangements by Jordan-Fernald, 113 Franklin St., Ellsworth.
OLIVE W. GIBSON
