Obit of Hansel Shipp (s100) - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 22 Dec 2003 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html +========================================================================+ USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm +========================================================================+ The Chickasha Express-Star 21 December 2003 HANSEL SHIPP Funeral service for Hansel Shipp, 91, of Pocasset, will be held at 2:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 22, 2003, in the Pocasset United Methodist Church. Shipp was born on March 18, 1912. He died on Friday, Dec. 19, 2003. Services are under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. ========== The Chickasha Express-Star 22 December 2003 HANSEL SHIPP Funeral service for Hansel Shipp, age 91, of Pocasset, Oklahoma, was held at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, December 22, 2003, in the Pocasset United Methodist Church. Rev. David Vineyard officiated, and Rev. Steve Edwards assisted. Hansel Shipp was born the son of Emmett Shipp, Sr., and Mattie Florence Nelms Shipp on March 18, 1912, in Dublin, Erath County, Texas. He died on Friday, December 19, 2003, in Pocasset, Oklahoma. Hansel came to Grady County in 1916, and moved to Pocasset in 1926. He served in the United States Army and went into the Army Infantry in 1934. Hansel served during World War II as an infantry platoon leader in Northern Pacific at Attu and Kiska Islands, Central Pacific, and Southwest Pacific in the Philippines and Oklnawa. He was decorated five times for his service and beyond the call of duty with Purple Hearts, Oak Leaf Clusters, and Silver Star. After World War II, Hansel returned to Pocasset where he farmed and ranches. On February 11, 1952, he married Mildred Lucille Payne in Pocasset. After farming and ranching, he went into commercial construction work and was self-employed for fifteen years before his retirement in 1974. Hansel was a member of the United Methodist Church in Pocasset. He was also a member of the Pocasset Lions Club and the Masonic Lodge. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Mildred Shipp, sister, Fannie Souders, and four brothers, Francis, Ted, Emmett, Jr., and Orin Shipp, and one stepson, Robert Stack. Survivors include: Daughter, Tresa Osborn of Chickasha; daughter, Von Cile Farmer of Harrah; six grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; four great, great grandchildren. Interment with military honors was in the Pocasset Cemetery. Services were under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html