Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 04:53:00 :
Independent Journal
Wednesday, July 30, 1980
ALFRED G. GIBSON
Alfred G. Gibson, owner of Nick’s Cove restaurant in Marshall, former ship captain and landscaping contractor, was found dead in the restaurant Tuesday morning. He was 62.
Gibson was a resident of Marshall since buying the restaurant in 1973.
He was a native of Alameda where he attended schools until running away to a life at sea. Gibson ran away from home at 15, beginning a career at sea as a stowaway for which he was once caught and forced to spend 35 days in a Honolulu jail.
“We used to stow away from port to port going where the shipping was better, the weather warmer, the whiskey cheaper and the girls prettier,” he said in an interview with the Point Reyes Light in 1975.
Twelve years from the first time he stowed away, he became a ships captain and was commander of a ship torpedoed by the Japanese in the South Pacific during World War II.
He came ashore to work as landscape contractor, doing apartment complexes and then freeway beautification projects in the course of building a company from a one-truck operation to an organization with 245 employees and a fleet of trucks.
While in Marshall, he belonged to the Druids of Tomales, the Elks Lodge 901 in Petaluma and the Native Sons.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Gibson of Marshall; a son, Timothy Gibson of Sparks, Nev.; a daughter, Linda Wilmas of Boulder Creek; a brother, Jack Gibson of Alameda; three sisters, Alma Robinson and Ordean Gibson, both of Alameda, and Gloria Dunne of Auburn; a stepson Jerry Minton of Aptos and a stepdaughter, Gail Wilson of Danville; two grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Sorensen’s Funeral Home in Petaluma with officiation by members of the Elks Lodge. Burial will be private in Alamo.
The family prefers that contributions be made to the Shriners Children’s Hospital in San Francisco.
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