GIPE, Bernice Moon

GIVE, MOON, HODOVAL

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 2/5/2016 at 14:04:08

Bernice Moon Gipe was born on a farm northeast of Tabor on August 1, 1882. She was one of five children of Charles and Mary Moon. She departed this life at her farm home on February 3, 1961.
Bernice Moon was united in marriage to Charles Gipe on September 18, 1906. Three children were born to this union: Marjorie (Mrs. Wm. Hodoval), Emmett, and Everett.
Mrs. Gipe was a graduate of Tabor High School and Tabor College Conservatory of Music. Prior to her marriage she taught music to many young people, driving with a horse and buggy from house to house in a wide area surrounding her home.
She a her husband began farming in the vicinity of Strahan in the spring of 1907, spending their entire married life in that business and that neighborhood. Mrs. Gipe was a loving wife and mother, with a fondness for music and the arts. She founded a family orchestra, composed of her children, her nieces and nephews that was well known over a wide area and made frequent appearances of the early radio stations of southwest Iowa.
Mrs. Gipe was a member of and an active worker in the Methodist Church at Strahan, filling many layman’s positions with great honor. She served both as pianist and superintendent of the Sunday School for many years. If Bernice Gipe had a hobby, it was giving those in heed a helping hand and words of encouragement. Her fondness for young people was unbounded.
The person who said that no one is quite so tall as when he or she stoops to help a child, must have had in mind our beloved friend and neighbor, Bernice Gipe.
Those who remain to mourn Mrs. Gipe are her husband, Charles; her three children; her grandchildren, Geraldine Robertson, Donald Gipe, Douglas Gipe, Larry Gipe, Thomas Gipe, and Karen Bonnett; five great grandchildren; her sister, Dorothy Payne, of Dallas, Texas, and a vast number of friends, who wish her all of the joys of her future life that she so richly deserves.
Funeral services were held at the Strahan Methodist Church, Sunday, February 5, at 2:30 p.m., the Rev. Don E. Griffin officiant.
Pall bearers were Donald Gipe, Larry Gipe, Douglas Gipe, Thomas Gipe, Ronald Donnett, and Lyle Coddington, Jr. Ushers were Earl Bass, Marvin Woodfill, Jared Woodfill, Joe Hathaway, and Lyle Coddington, Sr.
Caring for the beautiful floral tributes were Helen Gipe, Karen Bonnett, Mary Beth Gipe, Pamela Obrecht, Janet Roberts, Jean Roberts, Susan Woodfill, and Lana Rose Coddington. Mrs. Lola Wearin was registrar.
Anna Rose Coddington and Bernice Woodfill sang “The Lord’s Prayer” and “My God and I”, accompanied by Irolene Roberts.
Interment was in the Malvern Cemetery.
Malvern Leader, February 9, 1961, page 4