Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Schipper, Victor Paul January 27, 1976 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com December 26, 2020, 12:29 pm Sentinel-Std. - Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1976 Victor P. Schipper, 62, of Ionia, died today when his truck went off Interstate 69 and overturned in northwest Delaware county, near Muncie, Ind. Coroner Rodney Qualkinbush said Schipper's truck, loaded with apples was southbound for Indianapolis and Cincinnati. He said witness reported the truck pulled to the left then continued across the divider, the two northbound lanes and down an embankment. Victor Paul Schipper lived at 842 West Washington, and was born in Ionia July 5, 1913, the son of Paul and Emma Streicher Schipper. He attended the St. Johns Lutheran school and was a 1931 graduate of Ionia high school. June 15, 1939, he was married in Ionia to Marian Richardson. He worked at the Ionia Creamery and during World War II they moved to Ypsilanti where he worked at the Willow Run Bomber plant. In 1944 they returned to Ionia and he began working for Gaylord Hausserman Trucking Company and retained that position for 32 years. He was a member of the St. Johns Lutheran church. Besides his wife, Marian, he leaves a son, Stuart of Ann Arbor; two daughters, Mrs. Susan Pierson of Belding and Vicki Lynn Schipper at home; and seven grandchildren; mother, Mrs. Emma Schipper of Ionia; three sisters, Beulah and Ione Schipper of Ionia and Velma Hausserman of Ionia. Services will be Friday at 2 pm at the St. Johns Lutheran church. Rev. A.R. Gallert will officiate and interment will be at the Highland Park cemetery. Mr. Schipper will be at the Leddick funeral home where the family will receive friends and relatives Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 pm. and 7 to 9 pm. A memorial has been established for the St. Johns Lutheran Church. Additional Comments: Age: 62 Funeral: Friday, 30 January, 1976 Highland Park cemetery #11-265 b. 5 July 1913, Ionia, MI File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/schipper39175nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb