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   OA Online Obituaries.
   
August 19, 2000

Permian Basin Obituaries

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    Nita Gem Tripp
   
   ODESSA Nita departed from this life Friday, Aug. 18, 2000, in the care
   of  Home  Hospice.  Services  will  be held at 11 a.m. today at Sunset
   Memorial  Chapel.  The  Rev.  Dr. David Mindel will be the officiating
   minister.
   
   Mrs.  Tripp is survived by a daughter, Sally "Sissy" Hill and husband,
   Doug;  a  son,  M.R.  "Billy"  Tripp  Jr., and wife, Jeannie; and four
   grandsons, Micah and Tucker Tripp, Joshua Jones and Adam Hill.
   
   She  was  preceded  in  death  by  her husband, M.R. "Bill" Tripp, and
   granddaughter, Lydia Osborn.
   
   Daughter  of  Sam  and  Cecile  ONeal,  Nita graduated from Pecos High
   School and went on to get an associates degree in art from Texas State
   College  for  Women at Denton. She moved to Odessa in 1935 and married
   Bill  Tripp  April  9,  1939.  She  was  voted First Lady of Odessa in
   January 1959 after having volunteered in countless organizations. Nita
   was also a member of First Christian Church.
   
   Her  passion  was  to better serve the young, old, and/or downtrodden.
   She  was a former president of the Council of Church Women. She, along
   with  her husband, Bill, helped establish the Chi Rho Youth Program at
   First Christian Church in Odessa. Nita was instrumental in getting the
   state   juvenile   probation  program  organized.  She  won  statewide
   recognition  for  her work with the Texas mental hospital system where
   she   served   as  chairman  and  advisory  board  member.  Additional
   accomplishments  include  serving  as  chairman  of the Voters Service
   League  and  helping to organize the Ector County Parks Department. At
   former President Eisenhowers invitation, Nita was asked to participate
   at a White House conference on youth and children.
   
   Nita  will  be remembered for her tenacity, determination, devotion to
   her family, and her spiritual conviction.
   
   The family suggests making memorials to the charity of choice.
   
   Arrangements by Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
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