{"id":2563,"date":"2022-04-18T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:28:35","slug":"michael-62-and-karen-63-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2022\/04\/18\/michael-62-and-karen-63-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael &#8217;62 and Karen &#8217;63 Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Michael &#8217;62 and Karen &#8217;63 Gibson<\/strong> of Danville, IL will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, June 5, 2022 with a reception at Wolf Creek Golf Club sponsored by friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Gibson and Karen Christiansen met at Illinois Wesleyan University on a blind date. They were married June 2, 1962 at the First Methodist Church of Normal, IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael is a former music teacher and retired farmer.&nbsp;Karen is a retired medical technologist from Lakeview\/Provena Hospital in Danville, IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple has one son, Donald Gibson of Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-1024x972.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-1024x972.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-768x729.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-1536x1458.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-2048x1945.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-1962-Photo-HiRes-1-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-2022-Photo-HiRes-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-2022-Photo-HiRes-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-2022-Photo-HiRes-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-2022-Photo-HiRes-2-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2022\/04\/MEKR-Gibson-60-Anniversary-2022-Photo-HiRes-2-768x364.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8217;62 and Karen &#8217;63 Gibson of Danville, IL will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, June 5, 2022 with a reception at Wolf Creek Golf Club sponsored by friends and family. Michael Gibson and Karen Christiansen met at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2022\/04\/18\/michael-62-and-karen-63-gibson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}