Millie G. (Phipps) LONG

PHIPPS, LONG, MOSELEY, KOSIBA

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/11/2013 at 18:20:33

October 4, 1876 ----- April 22, 1954

Last Rites Held Saturday for Mrs. Millie Long

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the Renwick Methodist Church for Mrs. Millie Long with Rev. C. E. Custer in charger. Mrs. Long passed away last Thursday at a Fort Dodge hospital where she had been for a few weeks following a heard attack. Hymns were sang by Mrs. Stanley McCurry and Mrs. Donald McGowan accompanied at the organ by Mrs. C. E. Johnson. Pallbearers were Fred Rasmussen, R. E. McGowan, Alfred Martin, A. H. Kleen, Norman Peer and Floyd Lane. Burial was at Elmwood cemetery. Arrangement were under the direction of the Beenen Funeral Service.

Millie G. Long, the daughter of Edward and Philena Phipps, was born near Renwick, Iowa, October 4, 1876. In 1899, she was united in marriage to Clair H. Long, two children, Walter and Grace were born to them. Her husband, Clair, two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Moseley and Miss Ora Phipps, and one brother, Walter, preceded her in death. Mrs. Long passed away on April 22, 1954 at the age of 77 years. She is survived by her two children, Walter H. Long of Renwick, and Mrs. Grace E. Kosiba of Sioux City, Iowa, one brother, Wilbur Phipps of Renwick, four grandchildren and many friends. Mrs. Long had been a member of the Renwick Methodist Church many years and was one of the Church's most devoted workers. Likewise, she was a faithful member of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. One of the greatest joys of her life was attending and working through the church.

Her loyalty to her church is expressed in the hymn:
I love Thy Church, O God!
Her walls before Thee stand,
Dear as the apple of Thine eye,
And graven on Thy hand,
For her no tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend,
To her my cares and toils be given
Till toils and cares shall end.
--Timothy Dwight--

The Renwick Times - Renwick, Iowa
April 29, 1954