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Esther Charlotte “Gee Gee” <I>Pawson</I> Gibbs

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Esther Charlotte “Gee Gee” Pawson Gibbs

Birth
Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska, USA
Death
10 Dec 1970 (aged 84)
Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada, USA
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Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada, USA Add to Map
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Fallon, NV. - Mrs. Esther C Gibbs died Thursday 10 Dec 1970 at her home in Fallon. She was born March 10, 1886 in Hastings, Nebraska to William and Martha Pawson. When Ester Charlotte was 5 she traveled by buckboard from Nebraska to Wyoming where she grew up. Esther Charlotte Pawson married Charles Angus Gibbs on 9 Oct. 1907 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They had 2 children, Edward Chester Gibbs and Cora Lucille Gibbs Carey. About 1928 she divorced her husband and moved to Elko, Nevada and then moved to Fallon in 1941.

Esther Charlotte wanted to be called "Gee Gee".
She was a champion horsewoman who rode in many horse races in Cheyenne Wyoming's Frontier Days and roundups in the Rocky Mountain areas. In 1907 she won the Denver Post Relay Race and brought homa a large silver trophy. She is mentioned, on pages 10 and 11, in the book "Those Magnificent Cowgirls," a history of Rodeo Cowgirls by Milt Riske. She was a seamstress, she was also a member of the Pythian Sisters Lodge.
The photo on this Memorial page shows "Gee Gee" with her Denver Post Relay Trophy.
Fallon, NV. - Mrs. Esther C Gibbs died Thursday 10 Dec 1970 at her home in Fallon. She was born March 10, 1886 in Hastings, Nebraska to William and Martha Pawson. When Ester Charlotte was 5 she traveled by buckboard from Nebraska to Wyoming where she grew up. Esther Charlotte Pawson married Charles Angus Gibbs on 9 Oct. 1907 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They had 2 children, Edward Chester Gibbs and Cora Lucille Gibbs Carey. About 1928 she divorced her husband and moved to Elko, Nevada and then moved to Fallon in 1941.

Esther Charlotte wanted to be called "Gee Gee".
She was a champion horsewoman who rode in many horse races in Cheyenne Wyoming's Frontier Days and roundups in the Rocky Mountain areas. In 1907 she won the Denver Post Relay Race and brought homa a large silver trophy. She is mentioned, on pages 10 and 11, in the book "Those Magnificent Cowgirls," a history of Rodeo Cowgirls by Milt Riske. She was a seamstress, she was also a member of the Pythian Sisters Lodge.
The photo on this Memorial page shows "Gee Gee" with her Denver Post Relay Trophy.

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