Mrs. Ann (Gran) Gibbs of Carthage departed her earthly life to begin her heavenly walk with her Jesus on Thursday morning February 20, 2025 after being discovered unresponsive at her Ward Avenue home. She was pronounced deceased at 8:31 a.m. at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room at the age of 83.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home are scheduled to be conducted Wednesday afternoon February 26th with family members delivering the eulogies. Burial will follow in Circle Park near her family at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
The Gibbs family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage only on Wednesday from 11 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral services at Sanderson in Carthage.
She was born Doris Ann King on June 18, 1941 in Carthage and was one of six children, three sons and three daughters of the late Andrew Jackson “Jack” King who died May 15, 1992 at the age of 75 and Laura Louise Ferrell King who died August 10, 2008 at the age of 87.
A brother, John Harold King preceded her in death at the age of 53 on March 11, 1999.
She was preceded in death by her husband William Kenneth “Sonny” Gibbs to whom she was married on June 15, 1964 and who preceded her in death on October 18, 2004 following over forty years of marriage.
Mrs. Gibbs had worked as a waitress at the former City Café and M & J Diner and had also been employed at the William L. Bonnell Company in Gordonsville.
She was a 1959 graduate of the former Turner High School in Carthage.
Mrs. Gibbs was a member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Carthage.
Surviving are her four children, Vickey Gibbs of Lebanon, Lisa Evans of Gordonsville, Stephanie Gibbs of Carthage William Gibbs Jr. of Illinois; siblings, Billy King of Cookeville, Carolyn King Lancaster of Gordonsville, Darlene King Gist of Cookeville, Jacky King Sr. and wife Zina Evans King of Carthage; devoted aunt like a sister, Grace Ferrell Hobbs of Murfreesboro; grandchildren, Terrance and Rachel, Garion and Jennifer, Lee and Kate, Elliot and Charm, Elston and Lori; twenty three great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Grandsons and great-grandsons
