Douglas Wayne HILPIPRE

HILPIPRE, SMITH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/11/2012 at 17:04:16

17 September 1957 -- 26 October 1963

Boy Dies in Gun Mishap

Douglas Hilpipre, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hilpipre of Woolstock, was fatally wounded Saturday evening in a gun accident at his home. Dr. Robert McCool of Clarion, Wright county medical examiner, said today that the youngster was hit by a bullet from a .22-caliber rifle which Douglas brother Randy, 12, was holding. The medical examiner said the older boy had taken the rifle down from a gun rack and was playfully aiming the gun when it discharged. Douglas was hit in the upper abdomen and died about 10 minutes later at his home. The mishap occurred at about 7:55 p.m. in the living room of the Woolstock home.

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Rites Tuesday

Funeral services for Douglas Hilpipre will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Foster Funeral home with the Rev. Leon Wallace of Woolstock officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland cemetery. Douglas Wayne Hilpipre, son of Howard and Dorothy Smith Hilpipre, was born Sept. 17, 1957 at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Dodge. He had always resided in the Woolstock community. He attended the first grade in the Woolstock elementary school.

He is survived by his parents, three brothers and one sister, Rodney Hilpipre, Webster City, Leo, Randy and Bonnie, all at home; also two nieces, Leanne and Kimberly Hilpipre; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Hilpipre of Webster City and Claude Smith of Rockford, Ill., and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Douglas attended Sunday school at the Methodist church in Woolstock.