Mr. Basel Gibbs

June 13, 1935 - September 25, 2019

Funeral services for Mr. Basel Gibbs, 84, of Deadwood, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church of Carthage with Rev. Buddy Briggs, Rev. Jerry Anderson, and Rev. Mary Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Deadwood Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be 6-8:00 p.m. Saturday, at the funeral home. Mr. Willie Basel Gibbs was born June 13, 1935 in DeBerry, Texas. He passed this life September 25, 2019 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Basel was one of four children born to the marriage of Pete and Maurine Wicker Gibbs. He was a graduate of Elysian Fields High School with the class of 1953 where he was active in football and FFA. It was Doris LaVerne Wilkerson who caught his eye, they married and went on to celebrate 58 years together. Mr. Gibbs was a cattle farmer, and active community member, supporting agriculture in Panola County through the FFA, weighing cattle in sale barns across East Texas, and working in livestock shows in Panola and Harrison counties. He was elected Farmer of the Year and Citizen of the Year through the Chamber of Commerce where he served as a board member and ambassador. He served on the Farm Service Agency Board for 30 years, director on the Country Music Hall of Fame Board, Panola Harrison Co-op as Board President, East Texas Electric Co-op in Nacogdoches, North Texas Electric Co-op in Longview, and the Deadwood Cemetery Association. His mind and focus was always supporting young people and the agriculture community as a whole. He was a loving family man preceded in death by his parents and in-laws he loved so much, and brothers, Jimmy Gibbs and Paul Arthur Gibbs, Sr. Mr. Gibbs is survived by his beloved wife, Doris LaVerne Gibbs; sister, Dorothy Gibbs Hardee of DeBerry; special like a sister, Sue Ann Ware of Elysian Fields, special friend, Kathy Wood of Marshall; numerous devoted nieces, nephews, and longtime community friends. Serving as pallbearers will be: Troy Davis, Wade Allums, Harold Hawkins, Jimmy Gibbs, Jr., Paul Gibbs, Vince Ware, Seth Michel, Kevin Whitsett, Brad LaGrone, Erik Davis, Jack Dillard, Gene Stough, Jay Goswick, Albert Tiller, Paul Fortune, Jerry Holmes, Steve LeGrand, Winston Horton, Sam Strong, Cody Jones, Patrick Davis, Christopher Horton, Thomas Gibbs, James Peloquin, and Derek Peloquin. An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com