OBIT: Blanche I. SIPPLE, 1999, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  SIPPLE
  
    Lieutenant Colonel Blanche I. Sipple, 85, Phoenixville, Pa.,
  departed this life at Phoenixville Manor on March 27, 1999.  Born
  July 20, 1913, in Elk Lick Township, daughter of the late Lloyd
  Calvin Sipple and Lydia Susan (Housel) Sipple.  Also preceded in
  death by sisters, Almeda (Sipple) Cecil and Miriam (Sipple) Hart and
  brother, Clay Sipple.  Survived by sister, Rosella (Sipple) Niner,
  Salisbury; brothers, Paul Sipple and wife, Etta, Doylestown, Nyle
  Sipple and wife, Lena, Grantsville, Md.; niece, Sherlda (Sipple)
  Jenkins, Waterford, MI.; nephews, Marvin Cecil and wife, Gloria,
  Akron, Ohio, Edgar Niner and wife Elizabeth, Ormond Beach, Fla.,
  Alvin Niner, Jr., and wife, Leona, Grantsville, Md., and Robert
  Bittinger and wife, Sue, Grantsville, Md.; also several great-nieces
  and great-nephews.  She graduated from Salisbury High School in 1930,
  and from Nurses Training at Church Home and Infirmary, Baltimore, Md.,
  Medical Field Service School and Nursing Administration, San Antonio,
  Texas and attended Dickinson College, Carlisle.  She joined the Army
  Nurse Corps, on July 1, 1941, before Pearl Harbor, from which she
  retired after 27 years with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  She
  served in Germany during post-World War II, in Japan during the
  Korean War and also at many posts throughout the United States.  Her
  main mission in life was to care for the young men and women wounded
  while fighting for our freedom either to nurse them back to health or
  help to make life more meaningful for them.  She was a member of St.
  John's United Church of Christ, Phoenixville, the Women's Guild of
  that church, Army Nurse Corps Association for Retired Members, Local
  Retired Officer's Association, American Legion and AARP.  At
  Blanche's request, there will be no viewing.  Private funeral
  services will be held at the Newman Funeral Homes, PA., Grantsville,
  Md., at 7 p.m., Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. David Fetter, assisted
  by the Rev. Raymond Brown.  Interment Salisbury Cemetery, with
  military rites provided by Salisbury area veteran's service
  organizations.  
  
  Daily American, March 29, 1999
  
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