William Joseph Gibbons Sr. ^{2 3 4 5 6 7 8}

   FamilySearch ID: GQVS-B7G.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Detroit, Wayne, MI. ⁹ The 1930 census recorded owning a $10,000 home at 14380 Cruse Street: William J. Gibbons, foreman for Ford Motor Co., 43, living with wife Esther G., 36; William J. 17; and Elizabeth A., 9. The father was born in Utah and his parents in New York. Esther and her parents were born in Indiana. Son William was born in Illinois and daughter Elizabeth in Michigan.

2. Census in 1940 in Dearborn, Wayne, MI. ¹⁰ The 1940 census recorded owning a $7000 home at 7022 Neckel Street: William Gibbons, foreman at auto plant, 54, born in Utah, living with wife Esther, 52, born in Indiana; daughter Elizabeth, typing and shorthand for construction company, 19, born in Michigan, and mother-in-law Elizabeth Beeker, 75, born in Kansas. They lived in the same place in 1935.

3. Newspaper: Detroit Free Press: Bettiann Gibbons Helping The Navy, 9 Jan 1942, Detroit, Wayne, MI. ¹¹ HELPING THE NAVY
(photo of Bettiann Gibbons)
BETTIANN GIBBONS Working for family, too
Girl's Heart Belongs to Sea Service
Bettlann Gibbons, 21 yeas old, works all day for the Navy Recruiting Office in the Federal Building for the love of it and for the love of her brother, father and fiance, all Navy men. She came to tie Recruiting office the other day asking for work -- just anything that she could do to help. The officers said they had no money available for such work, but Miss Gibbons started to tell about her relatives. Her father, William Joseph Gibbons, is a Navy lieutenant; her brother, W. J. Gibbons, Jr., is a first-class electricians' mate in the Navy, and her fiance, Kenneth Cole, 21, whom she met through her mother, is also a sailor. Recruiting officers surrendered. They told Miss Gibbons she could work around the office typing and whatever she could, but without pay. So Miss Gibbons works, six days a week and hard. She is happy because she is helping, and she gets a few privileges, such as a free lunch ticket and a leave card which permits her to ride free on busses. And pretty soon, she thinks, she will be issued an official naval jacket and cap.

4. Obituary: Detroit Times: obituary of William J. Gibbons on 30 Mar 1948 in Detroit, Wayne, MI. ⁸ Arrange Rites for Ford Official
Funeral arrangements are being completed today for William J. Gibbons, 62, superintendent of shipping in the pressed steel building of the Ford Rouge plant. Mr. Gibbons died of a heart attack Sunday in his home at 275 Merton road. His remains are at the A. J. McInnes Funeral Home, 15941 Woodward, Highland Park. Surviving are his wife, Esther; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth l. Cole of Holdrege, Neb., and a son, Lt. William J. Gibbons Jr., attached to the U. S. S. Topeka.

5. Residence: on 24 Oct 1951 in Lakewood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ¹²

William married Esther Gertrude Beeker, daughter of John Hull Joseph Beeker and Elizabeth Agnes Tracy, on 17 Jun 1911 in Chicago, Cook, IL.^{1 2} (Esther Gertrude Beeker was born on 26 May 1888 in Otterbein, Benton, IN, USA ³ and was christened on 6 Apr 1890 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA ².)