Schippers, Blanche Bowman – 1901-1992

BOWMAN, GILDERSLEEVE, GODBOLD, NIMMO, SCHIPPERS

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/25/2016 at 22:51:55

Services Held
Blanche Bowman Schippers, 90, a lifelong resident of Monroe, died Saturday evening January 11, 1992, at Clearview Manor in Prairie City.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Monroe Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Thomas Bass, pastor of the church, conducted services. Burial was in Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.
Memorials to the church, the Monroe Library or the Prairie City or Monroe Emergency Units may be left at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home.
Survivors are a daughter, Donna (Mrs. Don) Gildersleeve of Monroe; two grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a brother, Burton Bowman of Vinton; and a sister, Phyllis Godbold of Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Mrs. Schippers was preceded in death by her parents; husband Tunies, a son, Dennis, a grandson, a sister, Mildred, and a brother, Ralph Bowman.
A member of the Monroe Presbyterian Church for 76 years, she attended the church’s Westminster Circle.
The daughter of John and Mary Nimmo Bowman, she was born September 17, 1901, in Monroe.
She was married to Tunies Schippers December 10, 1919, in Monroe.
Source: Monroe Mirror; 16 January 1992