Edna Ripson 1913-1979

RIPSON, MCGEE, PFEIFFER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 9/18/2023 at 12:56:54

August 30, 1979 - The Tipton Conservative

Funeral services for Mrs. Edna A. Ripson, 65, were held at Muscatine Aug. 24 with the Rev. Martin Manning officiating. Burial was in the Durant cemetery.

Mrs. Ripson was dead on arrival at a Muscatine hospital Aug. 21 after suffering a heart attack while driving 3.5 south of Wilton on Muscatine county road Y-14.

Her car went into a ditch at the side of the road. The accident was reported to the Muscatine county sheriff's office at 5:06 p.m.

The daughter of Edward and Clara Phillips McGee, she was born at Winfield Nov. 9, 1913. She was married to Sheldon Ripson in Davenport Dec. 24, 1935. She was a member of the Degree of Pocahontas and the Women of the Moose.

Mrs. Ripson is survived by a son, Dean, Wilton; 5 grandchildren; a brother, Raymond McGee, Muscatine and a sister, Mrs. Theresa Pfeiffer, Muscatine. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1975.