Yolo-Santa Clara County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....LIPPMAN , Morrie February 8 2004 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/obits/ca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net June 30, 2004, 10:21 pm "The Davis Enterprise," Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Morrie Lippman Morrie Lippman died Feb. 8, 2004, at Sierra Health Care In Davis. He was 94. He was born Sept. 27, 1909, in New York City. At 24, he obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting at New York University. He met his first wife, Rachel, in New York City. They were married 46 years, before her death in 1980. For all of his long life he was committed to the cooperative movement, his family said. In the early 1930s he joined the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community in Saginaw, Mich. By the middle of that decade he was involved with the Hyde Park Co-op in Chicago. By the 1950s he had moved to Los Angeles, where he was the manager of the Zone 26 Co-op and the Hollywood Co-op. In the early 1960s he was the manager of the Santa Monica Co-op. He then moved back to New York City, where he managed the Chelsea Consumer's Food Co-op in Manhattan. He returned to Northern California in the 1970s, where for some 20 years he contributed as a volunteer in many cooperative organizations. From about 50 years, he held a number of positions in the California Cooperative Movement, including serving as president of Associated Cooperatives and as a board member of a number of co-ops in the Peninsula, the Palo Alto Consumers' Cooperative, Briarpatch Co-op, Menlo Park and the Mid-Peninsula Memorial Society. For more than 30 years he was a resource leader at Co-op Camp Sierra's educational summer camp. It was there, in 1979, he met his second wife, Audrey. His commitment to national development of cooperatives led to him being chosen to serve on the Cooperative League of the USA's Cooperative Bank Implementation Committee. He was a delegate to the International Cooperative Alliance's Congress in Stockholm in 1988. He was also president of the Consumers' Cooperative Publishing Association and a board member of Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation. He lived at the Twin Pines Cooperative Community in Santa Clara for 20 years. He moved into the Twin Pines Community in Davis in 1998. He was preceded in death by his five sisters and a brother. Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Audrey, of Davis; sons, Peter Lippman of Montrose and Steve Lippman of Vashon Island, Wash; niece Bonnie Wilkins and her husband Tom of Vashon and their daughter, Zoe, of Albuquerque, N.M.; nephew David Lippman and his wife Linda and their sons, Sam and Max, of Eureka; niece Wendy Krupnick of Santa Rosa; nephew David Novogrodsky of Berkeley; his wife's daughter Ann Evans, her husband and Morrie's longtime friend, David Thompson, and their daughter Hatley of Davis; loving friend Helen Patterson and her son, Kevin, and daughter, Elisabeth, of Davis; sister-in-law Doris Earnshaw of Davis; niece Linda Ribera and her daughters Lola and Eva of Davis, and a niece Rayne Thompson in Sacramento; as well as a great number of extended family members in New York state. A private celebration of his life is being planned. Donations in his memory may be directed to the California Cooperative Pioneer Fund of the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation, 216 F St., No. 1844, Davis CA 95616. Additional Comments: Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/obits/gob446lippman.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb