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::Pocasset Cemetery--Pocasset OK

© The Chickasha Express-Star 22 Dec 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 Okinawa. He was 
decorated five times for his service and beyond the call of duty with 
Purple Hearts, Oak Leak Clusters, and Silver Star.

After World War II, Hansel returned to Pocasset where he farmed and 
ranched. 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.
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