Services for Timothy Warren Kibby have been scheduled 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, at Grace Harbor Church.
Tim, a Sitka resident since 1977, died March 5 in Sitka. He was 62.
He was born Sept. 19, 1953, in Covina, Calif., the son of Loren A. and Lucetta Mae (Sullens) Kibby. He graduated from San Lorenzo Valley High School in Felton, Calif., and Cabrillo College in Aptos, Calif.
When he first arrived in Sitka he drove taxi for two years for Island Taxi, then was a mechanic at Sitka Engine. From 1980 to 2006, he was a warehouseman for Seafood Producers Co-op, and from 2007 until November 2015 he was an expediter for Silver Bay Seafoods.
He married Emily Elizabeth Gordon on Aug. 22, 1980. They divorced in 2001.
Tim had many interests – hot rods, fixing cars, NASCAR, football, playing with his grandchildren, road trips and classic rock, among others.
He was a strong man of faith, and devoted to his “work family,” his work and his granddaughter. He “greeted everyone with a smile and a hug,” his family said.
Tim was preceded in death by his father and a brother, Paul Loren Kibby, who died in 2005.
Survivors include his mother, Lucetta Mae Kibby of Mount Hermon, Calif.; his daughter, Bernadette Ann Kibby of Sitka; nephews Teddy Paul Kibby of Wasilla and Billy Hammock of Sitka; grandson Anthony Kibby Maghupoy of Kodiak; granddaughters Caribeth Kibby Gundran, Sophia Ann Kibby, Hailey Diane Kibby, and JettaRose Kibby Kamback, all of Sitka; sister Loretta Kibby Rochholz of Roseville, Calif.; and many extended family members.
An account has been set up in Bernadette Kibby’s name at Alps Federal Credit Union.
