VanWert County OhArchives Obituaries.....Gipe, Helena M. February 23, 1998 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Davis dilyndav74@watchtv.net June 25, 2006, 8:29 pm Van Wert Times Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1998 Helena M. Gipe, 84, of 1021 Allingham St. died at 9:40 am Sunday, Feb. 23, 1998 at Van Wert Co. Hospital, after an extended illness. She was born Dec. 8, 1913 in VWC, a daughter of the late Grover Cleveland and Bernice Irenen (Knight) Kampf. On June 15, 1931, in Ft. Wayne, IN she married Harvey F. Gipe, who died on Jan. 27, 1990. Survivors include two daughters, two brothers Robert (Marilyn) Kampf of Van Wert and Richard (Virginia) Kampf of Utah, two sisters, Marjorie (Lloyd) Oechsle of Convoy, and Beatrice Sonniqsen of Van Wert, two Grandchildren, and four Great-grandchildren. A son, Billy Gipe, and a sister, Kate Shively, preceded her in death. Mrs. Gipe was a homemaker. She was a member of First United Brethren in Christ Church, Van Wert, and of the Women's Missionary Society and Ladies Aid of the Church. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm Wed. at the church with the Revs. Tom Stricker and Dave Prior officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery, Van Wert. Friends may call from 2-9 jpm today at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home and from 12:30 pm Wed. until time of the services at the church. Preferred memorials are to First United Brethren in Christ Church or Visiting Nurses of Van Wert. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/vanwert/obits/gipe892ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb