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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From The Oak Ridger 28 Nov 2000
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:24:36 EST
>From The Oak Ridger 28 Nov 2000
ELEANOR S. TIPPY, 86, of Carterville, Ill., died Saturday, Nov. 25, 2000, at
Herrin Hospital in Herrin, Ill.
Mrs. Tippy and her husband, Ryburn R. Tippy, who survives her, lived in Oak
Ridge for 46 years before moving to Carterville in 1990. They were longtime
residents of 102 1/2 Meadow Road.
She was active in many school functions and was a charter member of the
American Association of Retired People. She was also a "Green Thumb" gardener
and enjoyed giving her flowers to many of her friends and neighbors.
She was born Feb. 19, 1914, in Granite City, Ill., the daughter of Lubomir
Stefanoff and Grueff Slava. Mrs. Tippy was a 1938 graduate of Southern
Illinois University and taught school in Illinois and Tennessee for several
years.
In addition to her husband of 62 years, she is survived by her daughter, Ann
Tibbatts of Bethel, Conn.; her son, Richard Tippy of Crossville; her sisters,
Mary Evans of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Ruth Heckel of Carterville; her
grandchildren, Brooke Shay and Ethan Tippy, both of LaGrange, Ga., Terri
Tibbatts and Thomas Tibbatts, both of Washington, Conn., Luke Tippy of
Crossville, Matthew Tippy of Charlotte, N.C., Nathan Tippy of Nashville and
Laurie Williams of Hopkinton, Mass.; and by five great-grandchildren.
Another son, Alan R. Tippy, died in 1995, and another sister, Dorothy
Mitchell, died in 1990.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the chapel of
Riggin-Pillatsch Funeral Home, 322 N. Division Road, Carterville, with the
Rev. Dorothy Cook officiating.
Burial will be at Rosehill Cemetery in Marion, Ill.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to Hospice
of Southern Illinois, 305 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62220.
The family will receive friends after 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
DOYLE L. COPE, 75, of Oliver Springs, died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000, at
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs
is handling arrangements, which were incomplete this morning.
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