Allyn W. Gibson passed away on February 12, 2022. Gibson’s Bakery posted the announcement on its Facebook page:
With a heavy heart, we say goodbye to Allyn W. Gibson.He passed yesterday during bakers hours February 12, 2022.Mr. Gibson was one of the most kind and genuine individuals we have ever known.He will be greatly missed.
In the photo above is Allyn’s son, David, who died in November 2019, David Gibson of Gibson’s Bakery has passed away.
Allyn W’s grandson, Allyn D. Gibson, was the store clerk whose stop of a black Oberlin College student for shoplifting gave rise to protests, false accusations of racial profiling, and the lawsuit in Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College. The student pleaded guilty.
We still await a decision on the appeal of the trial verdict, which could come any day.
At the trial it was revealed that Allyn’s great fear from the smear campaign by Oberlin College was that he would be remembered (falsely) as a racist. Neither David nor Allyn lived to see the result of the appeal, but regardless of appeal outsome, their reputations were rehabilitated and Oberlin College, to its everlasting shame, will be remembered as a cold, heartless place which tried with all its might and corporate resources to crush a family bakery, and continues in that effort.
The Gibsons will be remembered for having fought the good fight.
[Lee Plakas greets Allyn W. Gibson after punitive damages verdict][Photo credit Bob Perkoski for Legal Insurrection Foundation]
[David Gibson and Allyn W. Gibson at trial][Photo credit Bob Perkoski for Legal Insurrection Foundation]
[Allyn D. Gibson — second from left –after jury compensatory verdict][Photo credit: Legal Insurrection Foundation]
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[Featured Image: Allyn W. Gibson outside courtroom – Photo Daniel McGraw for Legal Insurrection Foundation]
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