Allen Dwight Sipma 1924 - 2002

SIPMA, WALLINGA, JONES

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/28/2016 at 11:11:24

Sioux City Journal
13 May 2002

HINTON, Iowa -- Allen Dwight Sipma, 77, of Hinton died Thursday, May 9, 2002, at Indian Hills Care Center in Sioux City after battling anemia and vasculitis for more than two years.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hinton United Methodist Church with the Rev. Sara Malone and St. Luke's Chaplain Shelley Akre officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Sioux City, with military rites conducted by American Legion Casper Post 477 of Hinton. A prayer service will be 7 p.m. today, with family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. The chapel will be open at 2 p.m.

Mr. Sipma was born June 4, 1924, in Hull, Iowa, the son of Stuart and Jennie (Wallinga) Sipma. He graduated from Hull High School in 1942. He worked at Terminal Island Shipyard in 1942 in the San Diego, Calif., area and for Hyman Construction Company. He entered the armed services in May 1943. He served with the 791st Anti-Artillery Battalion in France for three years. He received an honorable discharge. He returned to the states and worked in construction and at Jones Electric in Hinton.

He married Cleo Florence Jones of Hinton on June 11, 1948, at First Methodist Church in Le Mars, Iowa. He was an insurance agent for two companies in the area from 1951 until his retirement in January 1987, after the death of their daughter, Mailon, from leukemia. They had three children, Lynden, Manon and Mailon. Lynden died in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1998.

He was an avid reader, history buff and was an active worker for the Republican Party. He was known for his good sense of humor. He played cards with three good friends in the Hinton area during his retirement, and also enjoyed playing golf. Since Mailons' death, the couple have been volunteers with the Sioux City Chapter of The Compassionate Friends.

He was a member of Hinton United Methodist Church, a lifetime member of American Legion Casper Post 477, and a charter member of Wegman Koele Post of Hull, Iowa.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Manon Thramer and her husband, Richard of South Sioux City; five grandchildren, Joshua and Sarah Sipma of Sioux City, and Autumn Boyer, Audra and Augusta Thramer of South Sioux City; two brothers, Stuart Sipma Jr. of Palm Desert, Calif., and Keith Sipma of Hull; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Richard; and a sister, Virginia Kooiker.

Memorials may be directed to the family.