INA MAE GIPSON
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek Co., OK
03-03-1995

Ina Mae Gipson, 83, died March 1 at a Tulsa hospital following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Smith Funeral Home Chapel with Gerald Rendel officiating. Burial will be in Green Hills Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Gipson was born March 13, 1991 in Bristow to William and Ida Mae Coop. While she was young, her family moved to Mounds, where her father was a printer. She attended school in Mounds and Bristow.

Mrs. Gipson married her husband, Earl Gipson, Sept. 13, 1930. He preceded her in death Dec. 5, 1982 after more than 52 years of marriage. The couple lived in Mounds, where her husband ran the locally-owned gas company and later was employed by Oklahoma Natural Gas, the firm that purchased the local company and with which he retired. Mrs. Gipson often accompanied her husband on hunting and fishing trips and to out-of-state sites for the company.

Mrs. Gipson, worked as a sales clerk at the J.J. Newberry store until it closed. She was a skilled seamstress, and her hobbies included needlework, crafts and cooking.

At Mounds, she was an active member of the First Christian Church and taught a Sunday School class. She joined the Order of Eastern Star in 1944 and was past matron of the Mounds chapter. She continued her membership until death.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.

Survivors include her daughter, Earlene Hausner of Sapulpa; her son Jack Gipson of Tulsa; her grandchildren, Cindi Duncan and Randy Hausner, who were her caregivers for the past several years; and three great-grandchildren, who also lived with her.

Greenhills Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma