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Martha Lytch Gibson

June 27, 1913 — January 28, 2005

Martha Lytch Gibson

Laurinburg

Mrs. Martha Lytch Gibson, 91, of 212 West Vance St., died Friday, January 28, at Scotland Memorial Hospital.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First United Methodist Church officiated by the Revs. Stan Smith, Nancy Willard, and Harold Salmon.

She is survived by a son, C. Whitfield Gibson and wife, Tammie of Laurinburg; two daughters, Betsy Sweetman and husband, Ed of Greensboro, and Peggy Jones and husband, Hiram of Laurinburg; a sister, Sadie Odom of Gibson; six grandchildren, Marti Stegall and husband, Wayne of Waxhaw, Mari Ed Zimmerman and husband, Jay of Reidsville, Bonnie Jones of Wilson, Kenneth Jones of Cary, Whitfield Gibson and Christopher Gibson of Chapel Hill; 3 great grandchildren, Elizabeth Stegall and Jaimee Stegall of Waxhaw and Kaitlyn Zimmerman of Reidsville; two sisters-in-law: Elizabeth McLaurin and Polly Edwards of Laurinburg.

Born June 27, 1913 in Scotland County, she was a daughter of the late Belton P. and Mamie Gibson Lytch and the widow of the late Clyde Whitfield Gibson.

Martha was a graduate of Greensboro College where she received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1985. An active member of the First United Methodist Church, she served as a Sunday School teacher, served on the Board of Trustees, Building Committee, Finance Committee, Pastor-Parish Relations Committee, President of the United Methodist Women and was named Layperson of the Year in 1989. She was also a volunteer for the American Red Cross bloodmobile for over 50 years.

In 1989 Martha received the Outstanding Senior Citizena

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