Okfuskee, OK – Obit - Clyde Monroe Fipps, 1907-1999

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Source:  Okemah News Leader, Thursday, May 27, 1999

Clyde Monroe Fipps

     Funeral services for Clyde Monroe Fipps, 92, were  held Wed., May 26 at the 
Paden Holiness Church at 2 p.m. with Bro. Paul Heard officiating. He died Mon., 
May 24 in Prague.

     Born May 3, 1907 in Okemah to Samuel Monroe and Alice (Self) Fipps, he and 
Edna Ruth McElhannon married June 1, 1926 and she preceded him in death Oct. 22, 
1987.  He was a resident of Okfuskee County most of his life.

     Also preceding him in death were his parents, three brothers; five sisters 
and one grandaughter.

     Survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, Sam and Verna Fipps, 
"Corky" and "Skeet" Fipps and Geary and Donna Fipps, all of Paden; two daughters 
and one son-in-law, Frances Dugger, Tulsa and "Cricket' (sic) and Lynn Short, 
Paden; one sister-in-law, Lorene Fipps, Prague; one brother-in-law, Rev. Marvin 
McElhannon, Okmulgee; 13 grandchidren; 32 great-grandchildren and several nieces 
and nephews.

     Interment was at Paden Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers 
Funeral Home of Prague.