Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Buffalo Courier-Express Sunday, August 18, 1935 GIBSON RITES TO BE HELD IN HOME MONDAY Woman prominent in church, patriotic societies is taken by death at 84. Mrs. LAVANCHA TIRZAH STANARD GIBSON, 84 years old, died yesterday at her home, 396 Porter Avenue. She was the wife of the late THOMAS M. GIBSON, for a number of years vice-president of the Adam, Meldrum & Ander- son Company, who died in 1923. The couple were married in 1876. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev. Charles D. Broughton, rector of the Episcopal Church of Ascension, will officiate at the services in the home. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. MRS. GIBSON was born in Buffalo, December 17, 1850. She came from a long line of distinguished Americans. Her grand father was CAPT. ASA STANARD, who gained distinc- tion in the War of 1812. He came to Buffalo in 1810. Devoted Church Worker With his brother-in-law, BENJAMIN BIDWELL, CAPT. STANARD conducted the shipyard at the foot of Scajaquada Creek where several of PERRY'S ships were remodeled. MRS. GIBSON'S grandfather commanded a battery during the war on the site of the church of St. Marys- on-the-Hill, of which she was a lifelong communicant and devoted parishioner. She was a member of the altar guild of St. Marys Church and was the oldest affiliated parish- ioner. Deeply interested in the history of the Niagara Frontier, MRS. GIBSON annually do- nated the three flags which fly from masts inside old Fort Niagara. These banners are French, British and Stars and Stripes. She was a life member and honorary member of the Old Fort Niagara Association. She also was a member of the New York State Historical Society, the Buffalo Historical Society, Katherine Pratt Horton Chapter, D. A. R., Niagara Frontier-Buffalo Chapter of the Daughters of 1812 and the Daughters of American Colonists. Her only survivor is her daughter, MISS EDLA STANARD GIBSON. Her son, Maj. WALTER FRASER GIBSON, died in 1919. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================