Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Mary Ann Gibson
Mary Ann (Zehringer) Gibson, 72, formerly of Coldwater, Ohio, died Sunday, November 8, 2020 at the Norton Healthcare Pavilion, Louisville, Kentucky.
She was born August 16, 1948, in Celina, to the late Jim and Rita (Fortkamp) Zehringer. On July 4, 1977, she married Frank Gibson who preceded her in death on June 1, 2007.
Mary is survived by her four sons Patrick (Kristi) Burke, Dayton, Scott Gibson, Shelbyville Ky., Jason (Dawn) Scott, Eminence, Ky., and Joshua (Talia) Ridgway, Maine, and grandchildren, Joshua Ridgway, Abby Ridgway, Isabella Ridgway, Crew Ridgway, Gage Gibson, Josie Scott, Millie Scott, Violet Scott, Georgia Scott, Nikki Ward, Amberlynne Crain, and Kyle Burke. She is also survived by her siblings, Jim (Sharon) Zehringer, Theresa (DJ) Bisel, Joe (Tonia) Zehringer, Margaret (Mike) Tobe, Chuck (Lynn) Zehringer, Nancy (Dean) Darland, Jane (Jim) Rammel, Barb Stucke, Dan (Justin) Zehringer. She is survived by in-laws, John Ridgway, Sue Zehringer, Linda Cupito, and Sandra Roach.
She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings Linda Ridgway, Paul Zehringer, Gary Zehringer, and Ray Zehringer, and brother-in-law Chris Stucke.
Mary Ann was a 1966 graduate of Fort Recovery High School. She pursued nurses' training in Dayton, Ohio and used this later in life when she worked for many years in the OB unit at a hospital in Phoenix.
After a lengthy bout with cancer in the 1970's, Mary moved to Arizona and met and married Frank. She was for 30 years our "hotel" in Arizona and hosted most of the family at one time or another.
She had a great writing skill and won a Christmas Story Writing Contest for the Phoenix Sun. She loved the "Suns" basketball team, and was a great admirer of both Anthony Bourdain and Anderson Cooper. She was lovely, non-judgmental, and will be sorely missed.
Mary chose to be cremated and a private family memorial will be held in the summer of 2021.
