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Thomas Tibbs
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[March 28, 2008]
Thomas
"Tom" W. Tibbs, 73, of Lincoln, died Wednesday,
March 26, 2008, at 11:52 a.m. at Maple Ridge
Care Centre. |
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Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at
Peasley Funeral Home in Lincoln. Prior to the
visitation there will be a rosary service at
3:45 p.m.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Mount
Pulaski, with Father Thomas Shaw officiating.
Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Mr. Tibbs was employed by Railway Express and
Gulletts Flower Shop. He also taught fourth
grade and coached all sports at Carroll Catholic
School from 1962 until 1969. He later taught in
the vocational center at Lincoln Community High
School for 13 years. He and his wife owned
Flowers by Tibbs / Weddings by Crystal along
with working for Mental Health Centers of
Central Illinois at the Logan-Mason
Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln for 27 years.
He served in the U.S. Army.
He was born May 2, 1934, in Gary, Ind., to
Glenn W. and Mary A. Heinrich Tibbs. He married
Crystal Bycroft on June 17, 1961, in
Bloomington.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years; one
son, Brian T. Tibbs of Aurora; and two sisters,
Martha Crost of Wheeling and Mary Ellen (and
William) Copeland of Granbury, Texas. |
He was preceded in death by his parents and
one sister, Shirley McKearnan.
He was a member and trustee at St. Thomas
Aquinas Catholic Church in Mount Pulaski.
He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1953
and from Lincoln College in 1955.
Memorials may be made to the Logan-Mason
Rehab Center, Carroll Catholic School or St.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.
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