- Date Of Birth: December 19, 1931
- Date Of Death: November 30, 2021
- State: Colorado
Born December 19, 1931, in Collbran, Colorado, Rallin “Bud” Gibson, along with his two brothers, Hugh and Robert, were children of the Great Depression, hard-working and devoted to family. Nestled in the quiet mountains, Bud attended Collbran Union High School and graduated with the class of 1950. After high school, Bud served three years in the U.S. Navy, aboard the USS Hoquiam and USS Hamul, during the Korean conflict.
Bud and Doris later divorced and in 1978, Bud remarried, bridging his family with Marguerite “Maggie” Long and her three children. In retirement, Bud and Maggie spent two nomadic decades traveling from Arizona to Alaska by way of Texas and home to Colorado to celebrate holidays and major milestones in the lives of friends and family. Together with and apart from time spent with Maggie, Bud enjoyed being outdoors, with fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, and gardening topping the list.
When it was time to settle down, Bud and Maggie bought a home in the same Grand Junction, Colorado, neighborhood where his brother had lived for several decades and spent their remaining time hosting family holidays, attending Plateau Valley sports games and Broncos parties with friends, and getting to know grand and great-grandchildren.
Bud passed away November 30, 2021, peacefully at home, his best Shih-Tzu buddy Paddy by his side. He is preceded in death by his parents, Veryl and Helen Gibson, his brother H. Hugh, wife Maggie, and stepdaughter, Debbie Bubela, and is survived by brother Robert, children Dea (Hap) Fairchild, Donna Jensen, and Rob (Stephanie) Gibson, stepchildren David (Chris) Long and D’Ann (Aaron) Monger, along with fourteen grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
