Ina Mae Smith Gibbs, age 76, a resident of Forest passed away Tuesday September 28, 2010 at the St. Dominic Hospital surrounded by her loving family.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2pm Thursday at Ott & Lee Funeral Home of Forest with interment to follow at the Pine Bluff Baptist Church Cemetery in Newton. Rev. Lin Chesney will officiate the services.
Visitation will be held from 5pm to 7pm Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Gibbs had been a resident of Forest most of her life. She was a member of Ephesus Baptist Church in Forest. She was loved and respected by all who knew her and will be greatly missed.
Preceded in death by her infant son Stephen Wynn Gibbs, her daughter Regina Gibbs Rigby, and her late husband Sidney Lee Gibbs,JR.
Her survivors include two sons Randy (Debbie) Gibbs of Newton, Jeff (Natalie) Gibbs of Forest, and a son-in-law Bill Rigby of Forest. She is also survived by her sister Edna (Walt) Griffin of Florence, and a legacy of grandchildren:Valerie (Michael) McDonald, Elise Gibbs, Ellen Gibbs, Ginny (Dusty) Ivy, Anse Rigby, Jeremy (Ashley) Gibbs, Jordan Gibbs and Lindsay Gibbs.
Pallbearers will be: Dusty Ivy, Anse Rigby, Jeremy Gibbs, Jordan Gibbs, Justin Hurdle, Jason Hurdle, Brandon Chambers, Jess Dilley.
Ott & Lee Funeral Home of Forest is in charge of arrangements.