Isabelle Gibson

Wasilla resident Isabelle A. Gibson, 84, died Dec. 28, 2007, at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer.
A funeral Mass will be at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg, Fla., after viewing at Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery. Interment will be after the Mass. Pallbearers will be Archie Gibson, James Gibson, Michael Gibson, Christopher Gibson, Michael Geary and Michael Blake.
Isabelle was born March 24, 1923, in Baltimore while her family was on vacation from the Panama Canal Zone. She attended Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone. She came to Alaska in 2002, living in Wasilla after living in the Panama Canal Zone, Cortland, N.Y., and St. Petersburg.
Isabelle worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs in St. Petersburg as a benefits administrator.
She was a member of the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wasilla, Panama Canal Society and the Brown Bag Lunch Group.
Isabelle enjoyed golf, needlepoint, traveling, swimming and playing cards.
She is survived by her sister-in-law, Doris Gibson of Wasilla; nieces, Patricia Mathias and Karen Punturo of Wasilla, Kathleen Gibson and her husband, Mike Blake, of Palmer, and Virginia and her husband, Mike Geary, of Wasilla; nephews, Archie Gibson III of Roanoke, Va., James Gibson of New York City, Michael Gibson of Springfield, Va., and Christopher Gibson and his wife, Peggy, of Pittsburgh; 16 grand-nieces and grand-nephews; and 10 great-grand-nieces and great-grand-nephews.
Isabelle was preceded in death by her sister, Anne Gibson; brother, Archie Gibson Jr.; and parents, Gertrude and Archie Gibson Sr.
Arrangements were with Valley Funeral Homes and Crematory of Palmer and Wasilla.