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Issue 287a Tuesday 20th April 1999
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DEATH OF DR FRANCESCA GIBSON
Dr Francesca Gibson, recently retired lecturer in Italian Studies,
died at 9.30 yesterday evening, 19th April, in St John's Hospice,
Lancaster. She was aged 39.
Dr Gibson, nee Cerefice, was a graduate in Italian and French of
Reading University, where she obtained in 1992 her doctorate for a
thesis on the theme of exile in the early novels of Cesare Pavese.
After teaching posts at Portsmouth and Reading University she came to
Lancaster in 1989. In 1991 she married the late Dr Ralph Gibson, reader
in French History and principal of the County College.
Francesca was born and brought up in Rhyl, where she was in the same
class at school as Carol Vorderman, whom she regularly beat at maths.
She was a keen hill-walker, reader, opera-goer and lover of cats,
generous in her hospitality and a splendid exponent of Italian cooking.
It is expected that she will be buried in Rhyl. Details of the funeral
arrangements will be announced later.
She leaves her mother, her two brothers and her partner, Nigel
Thackray, to whom she was to be married this afternoon. To all of them
and to her countless friends we offer every sympathy.