Source:
S.D. Butcher’s Pioneer History of Custer County
Published 1901
Pages 323-324
Note:
The photos in the story are labeled incorrectly as “E. Jeffords & Mrs. E. Jeffords” when it should be C.H. Jeffords.
Archives for January 2012
Legislator Carl Jeffords
CARL P. JEFFORDS Thirty-ninth District. Member of the Legislature in 1943 and of the special session in 1944. Born at Broken Bow, November 12, 1888. Ancestry Dutch, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English. Married Myrtle Gard, May 4, 1918; two children. Attended Broken Bow public schools and the University of Nebraska. Has been a school teacher. Is a stockman and farmer. Has served on the school board and as justice of the peace. Is a member of the American Legion. Address: Mullen.
Source:
Nebraska Blue Book, 1944
Page 208
CARL P. JEFFORDS. Thirty-ninth District. Member of the Legislature in 1943, 1945 and of the special sessions in 1944 and 1946. Born in Broken Bow, November 12, 1886. Ancestry Dutch, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English. Married Myrtle Gard, May 4, 1918; two children. Attended Broken Bow public schools and the University of Nebraska. Has been a school teacher. Is a stockman and farmer Has served on the school board and as justice of the peace. Is a member of the American Legion. Address: Mullen.
Source:
Nebraska Blue Book, 1946
Page 207
Note:
The 1944 entry incorrectly shows Carl’s birth date as November 12, 1888, and is later corrected in the 1946 entry showing November 12, 1886.
Note:
Carl’s older sister, Clara (Jeffords) Humphrey, was also a Nebraska Legislator from 1925-1927.
Johnny Wilson Army Picture
Obituary Vonnie J. (Jeanie) Gibson
Vonnie J. (Jeanie) Gibson, deceased, January 13, 2001, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She was born to Vilas H. and Neva J. Jones on November 7, 1954 in Broken Bow, Nebraska and married Daniel P. Gibson on May 29, 1976 in Mullen, Nebraska. Of this union two children were born, Terra Dawn, 21, and Wade William, 18. Jeanie’s childhood years were spent in Mullen, Nebraska where she graduated from Mullen High School in 1973. Throughout school she enjoyed being a cheerleader, the senior class president, and participating in volleyball and choir. After high school, Jeanie was employed as a teacher-aide at the Coble School northwest of Mullen, Nebraska.
Following her marriage, they moved to Kearney, Nebraska where Jeanie was employed at Killion Motors, Bryant Elementary School, and Buzz’s Marine. In 1992 the family moved outside of Gibbon, Nebraska, until 1998 when they relocated to the Omaha area. While residing at Beaver Lake, Nebraska, Jeanie was employed at Tincher Auto Group of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Her hobbies included bowling, soccer, fishing, archery, camping and other outdoor activities. Jeanie was a very loving and caring mother and wife who always put her family first, and held a special place in her heart for children and animals. Her colorful sense of humor, bright smile, and jubilant personality touched many lives and created lifelong friendships.
Jeanie is survived by her husband, Dan, of Beaver Lake, Nebraska; children, Terra and Wade, both of Lincoln, Nebraska; sister, Bonnie Bain, of Curtis, Nebraska; brothers, Don Jones of Omaha, Nebraska, and Ron Jones, of Hastings, Nebraska; mother, Neva Andrews, and stepfather, Garlan Andrews, both of Mullen, Nebraska.
She is preceded in death by her father, Vilas H. Jones. Visitation was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 16 and 17, at O’Brien-Straatman-Apfel Funeral Home. Services were held on Wednesday, January 17, 2001, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Kearney, Nebraska with Mother Janet Sturgis officiating. Interment was at Kearney Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to the church or to Bryant Elementary School in Kearney.
Vonnie Jones Senior Picture
