Byrl A. Gibson, Sr., age 79, of Spotsylvania, VA and a former resident of Chesapeake Beach, passed away April 9, 2014 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA. He was born September 16, 1934 in Cumberland, MD to Robert W. and Ethel D. (Bosley) Gibson. He was raised in Cumberland and graduated from Allegheny High School. He moved to the Washington area in the 1960’s and to Chesapeake Beach in the 1970’s. Byrl was an automobile mechanic by trade and was employed by UPS in Landover from 1969 until retiring in 1997. He moved to Florida in 2010 and returned to Spotsylvania in 2012.
He is survived by his son Byrl A. “Tim” Gibson, Jr. of Chesapeake Beach and a sister Rosezella Jeffries and her husband Robert of Fredericksburg, VA.