Celebrating Larry Gibson: The Life and Legacy of the Keeper of the Mountains

The public is encouraged to attend to help celebrate Larry’s life and legacy.  You are encouraged to RSVP and invite friends to  this facebook event.

Larry died of a heart attack on Sunday, September 9, while working on his family’s land on Kayford Mountain, which he spent the last decades of his life protecting from mountaintop removal.  Larry successfully protected fifty acres of his homeplace on Kayford Mountain and he inspired people nationwide to take action to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.  

On September 13, in a private funeral, Larry was laid to rest on the mountain that he loved.  Larry’s family has requested that persons wishing to express condolences make donations to Keeper of the Mountains Foundation through their website or a mailed check.  Cards and letters to family can be mailed to the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation office at 179 Summers St, Ste 234, Charleston, WV, 25301. 

Larry is survived by his wife, Carol, two sons Cameron and Larry, Jr. and his daughter, Victoria.  He was sixty-six years old.