{"id":39880,"date":"2017-11-09T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:47:48","slug":"john-gibson-gone-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/john-gibson-gone-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gibson is gone but not forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gibson was a fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always a gentleman and he always a chief,\u201d says his loving wife, Jean.<\/p>\n

When she talks about her late husband, the man she spent 66 years of her life with, you can detect the admiration. She misses him every day.<\/p>\n

John died at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital on October 13, 2014 from multiple myeloma, a type of cancer formed by malignant plasma cells. It’s a disease he suffered from as a result of a lifetime spent as a firefighter. He served in North York and he and Jean planted new roots in Dwight when he retired. They then relocated to Huntsville in 2000.<\/p>\n

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Jean says it was a real honour to be part of a special ceremony in Toronto that honoured her late husband’s work as a dedicated firefighter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cHe spent seven weeks in the hospital before he died,” says Jean. \u201cJohn was a fighter. He put up a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

John’s dedication to the North York Fire Department recently earned him some well-deserved recognition. On October 1, Jean travelled to Queens Park in Toronto where a special ceremony was held by the Fallen Firefighters Association. It was there, in front hundreds of people, that John’s name was engraved on a provincial firefighters’ memorial wall.<\/p>\n

To be part of that was a real honour, says Jean.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey called his name and rang the fire bell three times because that’s the last bell. It was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t