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Gibbs ready for retirement
Rebecca Young/Post-Register
Felicia Gibbs can't believe she has lived in Quincy 30 years.
An open house will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Quincy Moose Lodge to celebrate retired employee Felicia Gibbs’ years of service.
Gibbs retired Sept. 30. She had worked at the lodge since 1980.
The event will be open to the public. Hors de oeuvres will be available and dancing will begin at 7:30 p.m. with music by Straight Shots.
Gibbs, originally from Ohio, married her late husband, Bill, in 1978 and moved to Quincy later that year. Bill had a job managing the Quincy Moose Lodge, and Gibbs helped out at the lodge whenever her husband needed some extra help. Bill passed away in 1989, and Gibbs started working full time at the Moose after his death.
She ended her tenure as the bar manager, working in the office and tending bar several days a week.
The most challenging part of her job was finding and keeping steady employees, shesaid. The best part of her job was the people she associated with on an almost daily basis.
“Everybody’s friends here,” Gibbs told the Post-Register in an April interview. “There are a lot of wonderful people.”
She met her partner, Duane Weil, at the Moose. She was friends with his mother, and eventually got to know him. The two have been together since 1990.
Gibbs’ friendly personality has positively impacted a lot of people in the community over the years, according to Carla Wilson, a close friend of Gibbs’.
“For the Moose Lodge, Felicia has been the glue that holds most everything together,” Wilson said. “She goes above and beyond what is necessary. As a friend she is a generous, caring individual who is a true Christian. She was a great help to me and my late husband, Dennis, when he was ill. Her friendship is one of those things that I truly cherish.”
Gibbs describes herself as a homebody. She belongs to the Women of the Moose and enjoys helping with their annual crab feed, Easter egg hunt and Christmas giving projects. She also belongs to the Eagles Lodge in Ephrata, “but I’ve got too many things going on here to go,” she said. “I used to bowl, but now all my hobbies more or less center around family.”
Gibbs has four living children, all in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley in Idaho, and a stepdaughter in Baltimore. She has 14 grandchildren and five great-grandsons.
She will kick off her retirement with a trip to Baltimore to visit family, and then she’ll go on to Las Vegas to conduct another one of her favorite pastimes — playing the slot machines.
