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Article Excerpt
Denton Gibbes
President, The Gibbes Company in Jackson
While other teenagers were filling grocery sacks at the local grocery store, Denton Gibbes spent time at a local cemetery, digging graves and cutting grass.
"I'd show up every morning at 7 a.m., and the crew of older men and I would listen to the obituary report on a local radio station," he recalled. "Within 30 seconds, we'd know what kind of day we were going to have. While I've never been scared of manual labor, I quickly realized the value of a job that wasn't dependent on somebody else's bad luck."
The last of five children born to Denton Gibbes Jr., an attorney in Laurel, and his homemaker wife, Joyce, Gibbes learned very...
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