Eleanor T. Gibbons passed at Ferncliff Nursing Home in Rhinebeck, NY, on October 28, 2017. She was born on June 12, 1931, daughter of the late John and Anna Morris Gimbut of Brooklyn, NY, and was the older sister to Edward Gimbut of Hillsborough, NJ, and the late Joan Dougherty. She graduated Bishop McDonnell High School in Brooklyn, and Hunter College in NYC, with a Bachelor's degree in business education. She then taught in the Levittown, NY school district, where she met her future husband, the late Edmund F. Gibbons. After marriage, she left the teaching profession to raise four children, Patricia, James, John, and Mary in Wantagh and Shandaken, NY.
She is survived by her children, five grandchildren, three great grandchildren, along with her brother, cousins, nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2017 at 11:30am...[more]
the St. Francis de Sales Church Main St. Phoenicia with Fr. Raphael Iannone as celebrant. Burial will be in the family plot at the St. Francis de Sales Cemetery Rt. 28 Shandaken. Friends will be received on Wednesday morning from 9am to 11am. The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association at donatenow.heart.org, or the Hudson Valley Hospice Association at hvhospice.org. You may share a condolence or special memory with the family on Eleanor's Memorial Page at www.gormleyfuneralhome.com