IN MEMORIAM: Red Gibson; Teacher
Served On Eisenhower's Color Guard
ONEONTA – Brainard "Red" Gibson, a retired teacher who while in the Army served on President Eisenhower's Color Guard, died peacefully in his sleep on Dec. 27, 2016, at his home in Oneonta.
He was born May 10, 1930, in Inman, S.C., to Brainard Sr. and Alliene Hipp, the school principal and the English teacher.
As a schoolboy he worked as a custodian and bus driver, stoking the woodstoves early every morning before getting the bus started to pick up the other students.
