Martha Lucinda [Peek] Tippett

Martha Lucinda [Peek] Tippett

MRS. MARTHA TIPPETT PASSES AWAY THURSDAY

Mrs. Martha Lucinda Tippett, 84, died at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 8, at her home, route 2, Chickasha.

Tenative plans are for the funeral service to be Sunday afternoon at the Verden Baptist Church.

Mrs. Tippett, with her family, moved to their home north of Verden in 1907 where she lived until three and a half months ago when she and two of her daughters moved to Chickasha.

Children surviving her include three sons, Charles M. and Frank S., Oklahoma City; and George, Verden; five daughters, Mrs. Cora Foster, Miss Minnie Tippett and Miss Margaret Tippett, Chickasha, Mrs. O. H. Hall, Anadarko, route 2, and Mrs. Ellis V. Hurst, Outlook, Montana, and one stepson, W. T. Tippett, Franklin, North Carolina.

SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. MARTHA TIPPETT

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha L. Tippett were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church, Verden, with Rev. John Kelly, Anadarko, officiating.

Music for the service was furnished by a vocal duet from Anadarko.

Casket bearers were grandsons of Mrs. Tippett: James Hall, Fearl Tippett, Verlos Tippett, Floyd Tippett, Howard Foster and Frank Reddings.

Interment was in the Verden Cemetery.

Martha Lucinda Peek was born October 14, 1863. Departed this life April 8th at the age of 84 years 5 months and 25 days. Was converted and united with the Baptist Church at the age of eleven years and has lived a devoted Christian life ever since. Has been unable to attend church for the last several years because of ill health.

She was married to J. J. Williams, May 20, 1880. To this union was born one son.

This union was dissolved by the death of her companion June 29, 1883.

She was married to Reverend James F. Tippett at Franklin, North Carolina, September 29, 1886. To this union was born ten children. The eldest having died in early childhood.

She was preceded in death by her husband August 9, 1932, and a son Joseph Lee who was forty seven years of age at the time of death.

The eight surviving children are all present, being: Charles M. and Frank S. Tippett of Oklahoma City, George Tippett, Verden, Mrs. Cora Foster of Chickasha, Mrs. O. H. Hall, Anadarko, Mrs. Ellis V. Hurst, Outlook, Montana and Misses Minnie and Margaret Tippett of Chickasha; with whom she had made her home since December 24, 1947 and who have had the constant care of her for over seven years, during which time she has been an invalid.

She also has one surviving stepson, W. T. Tippett, Franklin, North Carolina, also three brothers and two sisters. Forty grandchildren and twenty-nine great grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Tippett moved from Franklin, North Carolina with their family in 1907, and settled near Verden, Oklahoma. They purchased a farm north of Verden in 1911, where the deceased resided with her son, George and daughters, Misses Minnie and Margaret until her recent move to the latters new home in Chickasha.

Music for the service was furnished by a duet composed of Miss Norma Jean Morgan and William B. Chatham who sang "Where Weâ¤™ll Never Grow Old," and "Home Over there." Mrs. John Kelly accompanied them. All are from Anadarko.

SERVICES FOR GRADY WOMAN SCHEDULED HERE

Services for Mrs. Martha Lucinda Tippett, 84, who died at her home west of Chickasha Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. today in the Anadarko First Baptist Church. Rev. John R. Kelly, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be at Verden.

Mrs. Tippett had lived at Verden for 40 years before moving to Chickasha last December. She is the mother of Mrs. O. H. Hall who lives here.

Other survivors are three sons, Charles and Frank of Oaklahoma City, and George of Verden; five daughters, Mrs. Hall of Anadarko, Mrs. Cora Foster, Miss Minnie Tippett and Miss Margaret Tippett of Chickasha, and Mrs. Ellie V. Hurst of Outlook, Mont.; one stepson, W. T. Tippett of Franklin, N. C., two sisters, Mrs. Nannie Rone of Modesto, Calif., and Mrs. Delphi Oxley of Oregon; three brothers, George, S. E. and Tom Peek, all of Alabama, and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.