Funeral services for Hunter Alston Gibbes will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home conducted by the Rev. Gray Temple. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Gibbes, 80, Columbia attorney and second oldest member of the Richland County Bar Association, died Tuesday at his home.
He was born January 26, 1876, at Quiney, Fla., near Tallahassee, A son of the late James G. Gibbes and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller Gibbes. He had engaged in the practice of law in Columbia since September 1, 1899.
Mr. Gibbes attended the University of South Carolina where he was graduated from the Law School in 1899 with a "highly distinguished" record. He also took a special course min law at the University of Virginia.
He served as county attorney attorney, president of the Richland SPCA for 25 years, and state chairman and manager of Speaker's Bureau World War I.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, The Sons of the Revolution, Drama Club, Forum Club, Sigma Nu Fraternity, and had been a member of the Lion's Club, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Viola Ann Johnson Gibbes; two sons, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, a physician in a Baltimore hospital, and Joseph A. Gibbes, a lieutenant in the Army, now stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany; one sister, Mrs. Arch Cheatham of Durham, N. C., and one brother, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes of Columbia.
Mr. Gibbes had practiced largely in the field of commercial law. He was one of a group of citizens who effectively opposed a plan under which Columbia would have purchased the Broad River Power Co. for 10,000,000. The plan finally was withdrawn by the city, and the utility later sold to a private company the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., which operates it today for a figure well under 10,000,000
He also led the movement which gave Columbia a commission form of government and only a few years ago took and active an active part in having that form changed to the council-manager form.
The body is at Dunbar Funeral Home,
Published in The Columbia Record Newspaper, Columbia, S. C. Wednesday, August 22, 1956 page 10 col. 4 and Thursday, August 23, page 6 col. 8.
Mr. Gibbes, 80, Columbia attorney and second oldest member of the Richland County Bar Association, died Tuesday at his home.
He was born January 26, 1876, at Quiney, Fla., near Tallahassee, A son of the late James G. Gibbes and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller Gibbes. He had engaged in the practice of law in Columbia since September 1, 1899.
Mr. Gibbes attended the University of South Carolina where he was graduated from the Law School in 1899 with a "highly distinguished" record. He also took a special course min law at the University of Virginia.
He served as county attorney attorney, president of the Richland SPCA for 25 years, and state chairman and manager of Speaker's Bureau World War I.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, The Sons of the Revolution, Drama Club, Forum Club, Sigma Nu Fraternity, and had been a member of the Lion's Club, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Viola Ann Johnson Gibbes; two sons, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, a physician in a Baltimore hospital, and Joseph A. Gibbes, a lieutenant in the Army, now stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany; one sister, Mrs. Arch Cheatham of Durham, N. C., and one brother, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes of Columbia.
Mr. Gibbes had practiced largely in the field of commercial law. He was one of a group of citizens who effectively opposed a plan under which Columbia would have purchased the Broad River Power Co. for 10,000,000. The plan finally was withdrawn by the city, and the utility later sold to a private company the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., which operates it today for a figure well under 10,000,000
He also led the movement which gave Columbia a commission form of government and only a few years ago took and active an active part in having that form changed to the council-manager form.
The body is at Dunbar Funeral Home,
Published in The Columbia Record Newspaper, Columbia, S. C. Wednesday, August 22, 1956 page 10 col. 4 and Thursday, August 23, page 6 col. 8.
Funeral services for Hunter Alston Gibbes will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home conducted by the Rev. Gray Temple. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Gibbes, 80, Columbia attorney and second oldest member of the Richland County Bar Association, died Tuesday at his home.
He was born January 26, 1876, at Quiney, Fla., near Tallahassee, A son of the late James G. Gibbes and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller Gibbes. He had engaged in the practice of law in Columbia since September 1, 1899.
Mr. Gibbes attended the University of South Carolina where he was graduated from the Law School in 1899 with a "highly distinguished" record. He also took a special course min law at the University of Virginia.
He served as county attorney attorney, president of the Richland SPCA for 25 years, and state chairman and manager of Speaker's Bureau World War I.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, The Sons of the Revolution, Drama Club, Forum Club, Sigma Nu Fraternity, and had been a member of the Lion's Club, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Viola Ann Johnson Gibbes; two sons, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, a physician in a Baltimore hospital, and Joseph A. Gibbes, a lieutenant in the Army, now stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany; one sister, Mrs. Arch Cheatham of Durham, N. C., and one brother, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes of Columbia.
Mr. Gibbes had practiced largely in the field of commercial law. He was one of a group of citizens who effectively opposed a plan under which Columbia would have purchased the Broad River Power Co. for 10,000,000. The plan finally was withdrawn by the city, and the utility later sold to a private company the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., which operates it today for a figure well under 10,000,000
He also led the movement which gave Columbia a commission form of government and only a few years ago took and active an active part in having that form changed to the council-manager form.
The body is at Dunbar Funeral Home,
Published in The Columbia Record Newspaper, Columbia, S. C. Wednesday, August 22, 1956 page 10 col. 4 and Thursday, August 23, page 6 col. 8.
Mr. Gibbes, 80, Columbia attorney and second oldest member of the Richland County Bar Association, died Tuesday at his home.
He was born January 26, 1876, at Quiney, Fla., near Tallahassee, A son of the late James G. Gibbes and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller Gibbes. He had engaged in the practice of law in Columbia since September 1, 1899.
Mr. Gibbes attended the University of South Carolina where he was graduated from the Law School in 1899 with a "highly distinguished" record. He also took a special course min law at the University of Virginia.
He served as county attorney attorney, president of the Richland SPCA for 25 years, and state chairman and manager of Speaker's Bureau World War I.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, The Sons of the Revolution, Drama Club, Forum Club, Sigma Nu Fraternity, and had been a member of the Lion's Club, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Viola Ann Johnson Gibbes; two sons, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, a physician in a Baltimore hospital, and Joseph A. Gibbes, a lieutenant in the Army, now stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany; one sister, Mrs. Arch Cheatham of Durham, N. C., and one brother, Dr. Robert W. Gibbes of Columbia.
Mr. Gibbes had practiced largely in the field of commercial law. He was one of a group of citizens who effectively opposed a plan under which Columbia would have purchased the Broad River Power Co. for 10,000,000. The plan finally was withdrawn by the city, and the utility later sold to a private company the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., which operates it today for a figure well under 10,000,000
He also led the movement which gave Columbia a commission form of government and only a few years ago took and active an active part in having that form changed to the council-manager form.
The body is at Dunbar Funeral Home,
Published in The Columbia Record Newspaper, Columbia, S. C. Wednesday, August 22, 1956 page 10 col. 4 and Thursday, August 23, page 6 col. 8.
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