My Deputy Sheriff Friend, Larry

It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of a Hannibal man, Larry Gibson, who was a deputy sheriff who I met very soon after I moved to Hannibal in 1991. Larry had a very good sense of humor and one day, as I was talking to a female clerk standing just outside of the Sheriff's Office in the Hannibal Courthouse, we could hear Larry tell others in the Sheriff's Office a very funny story causing them to laugh. I told this woman, "Isn't it something the way that a man of the law tells jokes the way Larry does? Of course, if I packed a gun, I would tell jokes whenever I wanted to.......and people would laugh at my jokes!!!" causing Larry and those with him to burst out laughing very hard. And I decided to exit the courthouse at that moment on the philosophy of "leave them laughing."

Many people will miss Larry greatly.