8AAB.  Ivan Bert Gilbert was born in Byron Township, Kent County, Michigan, on Sunday, April 17, 1904, and died on August 21, 1996. Lucille Evelyn Ide was born in Byron Township on Saturday, October 21, 1905, and died in Byron Township on March 4, 1988. They were married in Wyoming, Michigan, on Saturday, July 2, 1927. She took the name Lucille Evelyn Gilbert. He is the son of Charles B. and Gertrude May (Baker) Gilbert. She is the daughter of Dyer and Vena (Weaver) Ide. They had one child:

i. James Keith Gilbert [#8AABA]: He was born in Byron Center, Kent Counry, Michigan, U.S.A., on July 10, 1940.

Ivan Gilbert was a shop foreman for a Grand Rapids company that made excelsior packing material. He liked to hunt and fish and was fishing thru his 90th birthday. After Lucille died, he lived alone in Byron Center.

Lucille's maiden name rhymes with "tide".


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