• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

GibsonLife.org

Growing Memories

  • Home
  • About
  • Family History
  • Contact

Archives for March 2017

Bulus E. Reeves Obituary

March 26, 2017 By Wade Leave a Comment

Services for Bulus E. Reeves will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Table Memorial Chapel in North Platte. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 CST at the Cedarview Cemetery in Mullen.

Mr. Reeves, 87, died Friday at a North Platte nursing home. He was born March 11, 1898, in Iowa and had been employed by the CB&Q Railroad as a section foreman for more than 40 years. He is a former resident of Mullen.

A memorial has been established to the Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Mullen.

Mullen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Filed Under: Family History, Gibson, Reeves Tagged With: Bulus E. "BE" Reeves, Newspaper Clipping, Obituary

The Ranch South of Mullen

March 26, 2017 By Wade Leave a Comment

John A. Gibson, Sr. was a frequent in poker games at the Mullen Vets club, and at one point he had a run of good luck that helped fund the purchase of a ranch south of Mullen. The ranch consisted of 1,050 acres and had an irrigation well for alfalfa hay. After John, Sr. passed away the ranch was owned by siblings Bud, Barney, and Jeffie. The ranch was eventually sold around 1977.


August 1, 1950 – Barney Haying
1949 – Barney and Joe Moving Cattle

This is part of the ranch owned by the Gibson family. The 1,050 acres also extended West of Highway 97.

Filed Under: Family History, Gibson Tagged With: Barney Gibson, John A. Gibson Sr., Map, Mullen NE, Picture

Reeves 50th Anniversary

March 26, 2017 By Wade Leave a Comment

Brothers Elzie Reeves & Bulus Reeves married sisters Anna Gilkey & Ida Gilkey, respectively, in a double ceremony on April 1, 1918 in Hot Springs, South Dakota. For their 50th anniversaries the Reeves family gathered in Mullen, Nebraska to celebrate.

Elzie Reeves, Anna (Gilkey) Reeves, Ida (Gilkey) Reeves, Bulus Reeves

Filed Under: Family History, Gibson, Reeves Tagged With: Anna (Gilkey) Reeves, Bulus E. "BE" Reeves, Elzie Reeves, Ida K. (Gilkey) Reeves, Mullen NE, Picture

Gibson Men in California Photo

March 26, 2017 By Wade Leave a Comment

September 1951 – Mac, Bud, Frank, John Sr., Unknown

This is a great candid photo on the Oakland, California ferry in September of 1951. The family was in California for the funeral of Shirley Gibson.

Filed Under: Family History, Gibson Tagged With: John A. "Bud" Gibson Jr., John A. Gibson Sr., Picture

Bud & Betty Gibson Wedding Photos

March 26, 2017 By Wade Leave a Comment

November 14, 1948 – Bud & Betty Gibson

Filed Under: Family History, Gibson, Reeves Tagged With: Betty (Reeves) Gibson, John A. "Bud" Gibson Jr., Mullen NE, Picture, Wedding

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

New Virginia

New Virginia
School · Church · Cemetery

"He who cares nothing about his ancestors will rarely achieve anything worthy of being remembered by his descendents."

Footer

The Gibsons

Weather Station

View Full Wx Data Here
56.8
°F
61.2
°F
56.8
°F
7.0
mph
7.0
mph
max
0.00
in/h
0.00
in
today

Tower Camera

Tower Camera

Copyright © 2025 GibsonLife.org