Tyrone S. Gibson, a retired postal worker and sports fan, died from complications of liver failure Sunday at the Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center. He was 62 and lived in Northwest Baltimore.

The Ferndale resident was born in Baltimore and reared in Catonsville. He was a graduate of the old Banneker School, also in Catonsville.

He served in the Air Force as a member of the Air Police from 1956 until being discharged with the rank of airman first class in 1962.

Mr. Gibson worked as a correctional officer at the Baltimore Detention Center before he joined the U.S. Post Office as a letter carrier in 1966. At the time of his retirement in 2000, he was working as a mail distribution clerk at the main post office on E. Fayette Street.

Mr. Gibson was a communicant of St. Edward Roman Catholic Church, Poplar Grove and Prospect streets, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. Monday.

He is survived by his wife of 34 years, the former Marie Susan Shufford; a daughter, Lori Gibson of Baltimore; two brothers, George Gibson of Melbourne, Fla. and Carlton Gibson of Catonsville; three sisters, Beatrice Barber of Baltimore, Lorraine Blue of Catonsville, and Muriel Hodge of Spencer, Okla.; and a grandson.