LIPPINCOTT OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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LIPPINCOTT, Mary Ellen RAGLAND 1882 - 1982

The gentle spirit of Mary Ellen Lippincott took flight from mortal scenes on 
Saturday, October 9, 1982. Mary Ellen Ragland, daughter of Thomas and Alice 
Virginia Beazley Ragland, was born January 23, 1882 in Clinton, Mo. at 306 East 
Jefferson Street. As a young girl, she lived with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. 
John L. Woolfolk, and as a companion to their only daughter, Mary, who was a 
little her senior. While living in Clinton as a young girl, she was a member of the 
Baptist Church, where she taught a Sunday School class as she grew older. Her 
entire schooling was at Baird College on South Second Street, where she was an 
active, blythe and spirited student. The Woolfolk family moved to Kansas City the 
year she would have graduated, so she did not finish at Baird, but was perhaps its 
oldest student in point of years in attendance, as well as longevity. In Kansas 
City, she met Benjamin Harris Lippincott and in 1906 they were united in 
marriage at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Woolfolk, at the 
southwest corner of Armour Boulevard and Troost Avenue. They made their first 
home in Chicago, where one daughter, Jean, was born to their union. In 1914, they 
returned to Kansas City, where Mrs. Lippincott lived until 1967 when she came to 
make her home with her daughter and son-in-law in Clinton. Mrs. Lippincott had 
been a patient at Chastain's Nursing Home for the past five years, where she 
readily adjusted to its quiet life and where her daughter, Mrs. Henry F. Poague, 
visited her frequently. Friends who often saw her found her content, happy, 
smiling and adaptable, radiating good cheer, for she was thoroughly kind, never 
thinking ill of anyone. She was a most modest person, loved fun and laughter, and 
her gratitude for the smallest attention shown her brought out the best in others. 
Her fond and generous disposition elicted kindness from all who knew her, and 
her going is a void. Funeral services were conducted at the Consalus Chapel of 
Clinton on Monday, October 11, at 11 a.m., with Rev. Mark Prevo officiating. Music 
at the service included The Old Rugged Cross and In The Garden, with Eugene 
Consalus as soloist and Mrs. Helen Shrout at the organ. Burial was in Englewood 
Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Richard King, Harry Mills, Darrell Dehn, 
Lynn Evans, Waldo Feaster and Ralph Nattinger.

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