A self-employed fence builder and the son of Frank Sargent and Mahala Robertson,
Gilbert Sargent, the fourth cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Morocco, Newton, Indiana, USA on May 17, 19161 and. He married Garnet Denham (with whom he had 6 surviving children Iris M, Lula Anne, Gilbert J, Hale, Linda and Mary) in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA on Apr 17, 1937 (Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Sargent will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at 2 p.m. April 12 during an open house at the Morocco Assembly of God Church on Beaver Street. Married April 17, 1937, in Valparaiso, they are the parents of six children: Iris Allison, Kentland; Mrs. Lula Deardruff, Morocco; Rev. Gilbert J. Sargent Jr., Versailles, Ky. Mrs. Linda Watson, Morocco; Mrs. Mary Webb, Rensselaer; and Hale Sargent, Morocco. They have 18 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. The couple requests family and friends join them in celebration and that gifts be omitted).
Throughout his life, he lived in Newton, Indiana on Jan 1, 19202; and in Jackson, Newton, Indiana on Apr 1, 19303.
He died on Jan 31, 2001 in Morocco1 (gilbert J. Sargent Sr., 84; Morocco - Gilbert J. Sargent Sr., 84, of Morocco, died Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001, in the home of his daughter, Iris Casper (husband: Ronald) of Hermitage, Tenn. He was born May 17, 1916, in Morocco, where he was a lifelong resident. He was a retired self-employed fence builder. On April 17, 1937, he married Garnet Sargent in Valparaiso, and she died in 1997. Mr. Sargent was affiliated with Assembly of God Church of Morocco. Surviving with his daughter are two sons, Gilbert J. Sargent Jr. (wife: Elizabeth Ann) of Versailles, Ky., and Hale Sargent (wife: Shirley) of Morocco; three daughters, Lula Deardurff (husband: Ted) and Linda Watson (husband: Charlie), bothof Morocco, and Mary Webb (husband: Lyle) of Rensselaer; three brothers, Cletus Sargent of Brook, Leon Sargent of Lake Village and Lawrence Sargent of Florida; and a sister, Pearl Denham of Morocco. Services are Sunday in Morocco) and was buried there at Oakland Cemetery after Jan 31, 2001.
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