PHIPPSBURG — Luella Giberson, 89, of Phippsburg passed away on Saturday September 29, 2012 at the home of her son in Nobleboro with her loving family at her side.

She was born in Gardiner on Oct., 16, 1922, a daughter of Clyde and Leona Leighton.

Luella was a graduate of Gardiner High School. After graduating high school she married her husband of seventy years Richard A. Giberson and relocated briefly to Chicago area for his naval training. They returned home to Maine to raise their children in Bath on Mechanic Street, before moving to Brightwater on the New Meadows River in Phippsburg where they still own a home.

She had been a long time employee of various area banks including Bath National Bank where she spent most of her working career, retiring in 1980. She enjoyed knitting sweaters for her grand and great grandchildren, cooking, gardening and was an avid Red Sox fan

She was predeceased by her brother Richard Landerkin.

She is survived by her husband Richard A. Giberson of Phippsburg, her daughter Sandra Perkins of Dover, DE, her son Richard F. Giberson of Nobleboro, 10 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Visiting hours will be held Tuesday, Oct., 2 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Staples Funeral Home, 53 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday, Oct., 3rd at 1:00 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gardiner. Burial will follow with committal prayers in St. Joseph Cemetery Gardiner.

The family would like to thank Luella’s caregivers and special friends Dyani Smith and Ellen Kenesick for their kind and compassionate care.