Published in Pilot-Tribune, December 10, 2002

RUTH M. LIPPINCOTT, 100

Ruth M. Lippincott, 100, died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at First Lutheran Church in Blair with Pastor Ken Jensen and Pastor Stan Reinemund officiating. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Ruth M. Lippincott was born June 19, 1902, on the farm north of Blair to Ephrian Coles and Emma (Schmidt) Lippincott. She attended Pleasant View School District No. 13 for 10 years. She then stayed at home helping her mother with cooking, cleaning and gardening. She also helped her brother husk corn, and drove the truck alongside the mechanical pickers when they came into use.

She enjoyed baseball and football games, and played in a women’s softball league in the 1930s.

She was a babysitter for many years and worked in the dietary department at Crowell Home for 22 years, retiring in 1982. For several years, she took the school census for Blair Schools. She was also a musician, and had played saxophone in the Blair Community Band.

She was known for her sugar cookies and popcorn balls at Christmastime. She is best remembered for the Christmas stockings that she knit (a total of 1,998) and for the quilts that she hand-quilted (a total of more than 200 large quilts and 45 small quilts). She helped the “Happy Quilters” group with their quilting and also tied quilts on “Love Days” at First Lutheran Church.

For years, she lived on the farm north of Blair, moving to Crowell Home’s Assisted Living Facility in August, 2000. She celebrated her 100th birthday with a family celebration at the Lippincott farm in June.

She is survived by her brothers and sisters-in-law, Donald and Henrietta Lippincott, and R.J. (Dick) and Ruth Lippincott of Blair; 16 nieces and nephews; 48 great-nieces and nephews; and 34 great-great-nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a brother, E. Clark Lippincott, and sister, Viva Guyer.

Memorials are suggested to First Lutheran Church or Crowell Memorial Home.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral Leaflet:

First Lutheran Church December 10, 2002 Hymns: "Amazing Grace". Solo: "Our Father Has Light In His Window"; Solo: "Hymn of Promise". Officiates: Pastor Stan Reinemund and Pastor Ken Jensen. Soloist: Jack Jensen. Organist: Clare Cowing

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