Frank Westby Gibson, Jr., 89, died Nov. 6.
Gibson was a staff writer and a freelancer whose work included editorials, cartoons, photos, an aviation column, and theater reviews. His work was published in The Register of Yarmouth, Mass., The Barnstable (Mass.) Patriot, and The Cape Cod Journal.
Before he moved to Barnstable on Cape Cod, he was in the advertising business and he was employed in New York City at the Time-Life and Ziff-Davis companies, including at Flying Magazine.
Gibson was a town committee member for Passaic Township in New Jersey from 1969 to 1974 and was mayor there in 1971 and 1972,
He was a member of several town committees in Barnstable, and served on the board of the Barnstable Land Trust.
He leaves a wife, Diane; a son, Duncan; a daughter, Nancy.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.