RUBY LIPE

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Funeral for Ruby M. Lipe of Olive Branch will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The Rev. Carl Hester will officiate, with burial in Olive Branch Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today.

Lipe, 80, died Wednesday, March 25, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Dec. 14, 1917, in Muldrow, Okla., daughter of William Stokley and Susie Belle Morton Bledsoe. She and Earl Lipe were married July 21, 1934. He died Feb. 13, 1997.

Lipe was a member of Trinity Assembly of God Church.

Survivors include a son, Mike Lipe of Olive Branch; two brothers, Frank Oller of Jackson, Tenn., Kenny Oller of Sterling, Ill.; a sister, Vayelice Gustason of Crown Point, Ind.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, two daughters, two brothers, and two sisters.