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John Stanley Gibbs was born on September 9, 1936, with a fishing pole in one hand and a shotgun in the other. His dad, Eddie Gibbs, and his mother, Marty Gibbs, lived in Oklahoma City at the time but soon moved to Seminole, OK and then to Shidler, OK to a Phillips Pipeline camp. John was the oldest of three children, with younger siblings Sue and Bill. Before his senior year at Shidler High School, his dad took a promotional job with Phillips Petroleum in Del City, OK and John finished high school at Midwest City High School. Shortly after, John attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College and then Central State University.