Jeffrey R. Gibbons, MD, 55, of Cameron, NC passed away peacefully on December 16, 2019, at First Health Hospice House in Pinehurst.
Jeffrey was born in Corning, New York, on July 25, 1964 to the late John and Virginia Smith Gibbons. He moved to Oklahoma as a teen and attended the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed his residency at Wellspan York Hospital in Pennsylvania, which is where he met his wife Susan. He joined Sandhills Emergency Physicians in September, 1998. He worked in all four of FirstHealth’s Emergency Departments. In August, 2013 he joined Healogics, a wound care company that provides staffing to Firsthealth’s Wound Care Clinics. He continued to work in the emergency departments on a per diem basis until his diagnosis in April 2018.
Jeffrey possessed a great sense of humor and loved making people laugh. His favorite past time was fishing and he loved listening to music, especially The Beatles. He also had a special love for Civil War history and participated in many Civil War Reenactments. Most of all, he treasured time spent with family, friends, and his dogs and cats.
Jeffrey is survived by his loving wife of twenty-five years, Susan Gibbons; son Austin Gibbons and daughter Gina Gibbons; brother John and wife Hilda Gibbons of Tena Fly, NJ.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:00AM on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, 160 E. Vermont Avenue, Southern Pines, NC 28387.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations in Jeffrey’s name be made to FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care, 150 Applecross Road, Pinehurst, NC 28374.
Online condolences can be made at www.bolesfuneralhome.com.
Services entrusted to Boles Funeral Home of Southern Pines.
