Our family lost our patriarch and hero, Robert N. Gibson of Newport News, Saturday at age 97. Uncle Bob was a Marine who served at Iwo Jima, worked decades at Life of Virginia, fathered three wonderful children, loved classical music, modeled probity for his younger brother (my Dad, Hall Gibson, 1921-2013), carried the rural Virginia twang of the Northern Neck across the country and around the world, quietly supported the Republican Party and carried more than nine decades in his heart the love of family, good food and all things Virginia. We all will miss him dearly.