Born without the capacity for complaint or guile, she was honest, tough, generous, kind, and strict and loving with her children, who were all indelibly shaped by the combination of her high expectations and ardent love. Peg was adored by her family and her many friends. When she met Tom Gibian in 1948 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, she recognized someone whose devotion to family rivaled her own, and they married. She grew up in a large extended family and was particularly close to her father, who inspired a love of family that was boundless, contagious, and perpetual. Known by her childhood nickname, Peg was born on October 11, 1917, in Avella, Pa., a small coal mining town in the southwest corner of the state, the firstborn of Luella Wiegmann and William Wallace Sutherland’s five children. Gibian - Laura Cynthia Sutherland Gibian, 102, on February 3, 2020, completing her journey in her Friends House apartment in Sandy Spring, Md., with her four children holding her in the Light.
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