Mr. Gibson was raised on a small Midwestern farm, served in the Navy, and upon discharge earned a degree in business at Indiana University. He then launched a long professional career, one that began with his having had a supervisory role with the aerospace company in suburban Los Angeles that built the Apollo spacecraft. In the late sixties, he moved east and made a daily commute into New York. It was there that he had management responsibilities with major companies headquartered in Rockefeller Center and on Wall Street. In the mid-seventies, he settled in New England and was involved in overseeing real estate projects. Nearly a decade later, he relocated to south Texas and was an officer in the then-largest privately held bank in the state. In 1986, he and his educator wife emigrated to Europe and lived in Spain and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg until 2012. Now back in the U.S., they once again call south Texas home.