Life Story of Ray Lawrence Gibb

Born: Rayfield William Monosso!

I was born January 3, 1961 in Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, the third of three kids. On February 6, 1966 my social worker picked me up at my current foster care family’s home in Tooele, Ut and took me to live with the Gibb family.

He was finishing Medical School at the U of U and she was teaching ½ day kindergarten. On February 6, 1967 I as adopted by Lawrence and Saundra Gibb (I was second oldest, but the 5th child).

At this time we lived in Holladay, Utah, however, needing more space we moved up onto the upper avenues in Salt Lake while dad finished medical school at U of U. (When all was said and done, I am second oldest of eleven) When dad completed his training and got his license to practice medicine, we moved to Bountiful, Utah where we lived and went to school until I was 16, and the final siblings had joined us, at which time we moved to the Cabin (The summer home that mom's dad had built up Emigration Canyon). I attended 2 years of high school while living here at Skyline High School.

My senior year we moved back to Bountiful, to be closer to Dad's practice. While living up the canyon we did not see a lot of dad as the traveling distance was just to much on the nights that he was on call.

In March of 1979 I joined the USAR. In July 1979 I went to Fort Dix New Jersey for my Basic Training, upon completion of basic, I was sent to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX for AIT (advanced individual training) where I went through training for B-10 (field medic) and the first half of B-20 (hospital medic). After Fort Sam Houston, I was assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado 7th Cav medical corps to complete my medical training through the clinical and hospital rotation. We spent a couple of weeks in the various areas and wards in the hospital as well as the TMCs (Troop Medical Clinics).My next assignment was with the 328th Medical Hospital, 96th USARCOM at Fort Douglas, in Salt Lake City, Utah. I transferred from the medical corps to the Mess and became a cook for the unit, with my final stop at 244th personnel company as a cook there.During my time at 244th, I went to work full time for USARCOM at headquarters in supply, where we processed and entered into the data entry all orders from the 96th USARCOM units around the Intermountain West.After the military (a short stint in the US Navy as well),

I went back to full time civilian life.When I first left the service I went back to the first employer that I had, Earl Chapman at Kerrybrook Appliance in Sugar House, (a suburb of Salt Lake) where I went back to selling, delivering, and installing appliances (Maytag washers and dryers, Amana Refrigerators, Amana - Whirlpool Dishwashers, and other household appliances.

I then decided to go back into the Restaurant industry and went back to Washington DC to Culinary school. While attending school, I worked as a line cook for Bellevue Country Club, in Arlington, Virginia. After working at the Country club for awhile I took a job at Camber's restaurant in Fairfax, Virginia as a Sous Chef, where I continued to be trained by chef Art Metcalf. After running out of money for school ($5,000.00 a month) I went back home to Salt Lake where I went to work for Dee's family restaurant's in Bountiful, as a host. I enjoyed this job as I was able to work directly with the public, I was able to take direct feedback from them and pass it on to the various managers to allow for us to have a better store.

While working at Dee's, I became friends with one of our waitresses, Gay and her husband Kody Morgan. Kody played bass in a local club band, (Prime Time) and on weekends I would go and watch them play, after awhile I became a Raodie for them. I continued to raodie for them until Kody auditioned and moved to another band (Steel Rail).After being passed over twice for management, I left Dee's and went into package Delivery.

I drove for a private carrier, Summit Freight where I would deliver packages for, Airborne, Fedex, UPS, DHL, to name but a few into rural Central Utah, (Price, Huntington, Castle Dale, Spanish Fork, and other Emery and Carbon County Towns - to include the coal mines and the power stations).Kody auditioned to play bass for Steel Rail, a new country rock band out of salt lake, and when he moved over I went with him and began to rodie for them. After a couple of years as their roadie, I became their road manager.

After leaving Summit Freight, I went back to the Food Industry and went to work for Pizza Hut as an opener. My duties included being in the store no later than 6:00 am, prepping the dough for the day shift, prepping the sauces, and the makings table, turning on the ovens, setting up the salad bar, getting the register setup, and doing the prep dishes. Then at 10:00 am we opened the doors for business. After lunch openers did the dough prep, changed over the make table and got everything ready for the afternoon/night shift.

After my 8 to 9 hours at Pizza Hut, I would go home take a power nap, grab something to eat and head out to whatever club the band was playing at to go over the setup, and prepare for the night.