Obituary
Obituary of Agnes Gipe
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
E. AGNES GIPE
Ella Agnes Gipe, daughter of Fred and Cora Mae (Buss) Stephenson, was born November 15, 1911, in a sod house in Rooks County, Kansas, and passed away at the Bethany Home in Minden, Nebraska, on November 5, 2013, at the age of 101.
Agnes was the third child in a family of nine. As a small girl, her family went to Weldona, Colorado in a covered wagon to homestead a farm where they lived in a sod house. After several years they returned to Kansas, again by a covered wagon. They settled on a farm in northern Phillips County where Agnes attended the rural schools. She met Lawrence James "Hap" Gipe at Woodruff, Kansas, and they were married in Phillipsburg, Kansas, on November 18, 1933. They made their home on the farm in Woodruff where their twin daughters, Erma "Tiny" and Ermyl "Dolly", were born in 1935. Agnes helped her husband with the farm and they also rant the Port of Entry at Woodruff. In 1942, they moved to Norton where she was a homemaker. Following the death of her sister, Sylvia, Agnes and Hap took in and raised their niece, Joyce Clark with their own daughters. Following Hap's death in 1992, she continued to live in her home until December 2012, when she moved to the Bethany Home in Minden.
Agnes was a member of the Norton Christian Church. She enjoyed square dancing, camping, and fishing.
Survivors include: her grandchildren, Arlin Phelps, Norton; Alane and husband, Jerry Ruhs, Minden; Karla Reed and Kelly Belden, Norton; her great-grandson, Brandon Reed, Norton; her two sons-in-law, Wayne Belden and R.L. Phelps, both of Norton; her special daughter, Joyce Howell, Holton; her special grandchildren, Ed Howell, Hays; Dyann and husband, Tim Parks, Holton, Kansas; her special great-grandchildren, Colton Howell, Dylan, Tristan, and Cailin Parks; and one great-great-grandchild, Kyli; one sister, Mable and husband, Chris Christensen, Kearney, Nebraska; one brother, Raymond Stephenson, Scranton, Kansas; other relatives and friends.
Agnes was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her two daughers, Erma "Tiny" Belden in 1997, and Ermyl "Dolly" Phelps in 2012, two brothers, Charles and Lewis, and four sisters, Geneva Lowe, Hilma Kinney, Beulah Parrish, and Sylvia Clark Purcell.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Agnes Gipe Memorial Fund.
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Friday
8
November
Funeral Service
10:30 am
Friday, November 8, 2013
Enfield Funeral Home, Norton, KS
215 W. Main
Norton, Kansas, United States
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