Thursday, February 18, 2010

Elma Mae Gooden Rippy

Elma Mae Gooden Rippy, 83, formerly of El Dorado Springs, passed away Feb. 18, 2010. She was born March 28, 1926.

Elma Mae was a graduate of El Dorado Springs High School.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jess; brothers, Hobert, Hubert, Donald and Austin; and her parents.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Pat Rippy; daughter, Pat Hulett-Jones, and husband, Don Jones; grandchildren - Marilyn (Rippy), and Patrick Avalos, Stephanie (Rippy) and Matt Ainsworth, Rick and Deanna Hulett, Danny and Jaquie Hulett, Sarah Campbell and Big Dave Petersen; great-grandchildren; sisters – Nelda Kinney – Downing, Ruth Latta – El Dorado Springs and Violet Emons Fulbright- Willard; and brothers Wesley Emons – Nebraska City, NE, and Ronald Emons – Virgil City.

Inturnment was Monday, Feb. 22, in Westlawn Hillcrest Memorial Park, Omaha, NE, followed by a lunch and a Memorial Service at the Center for Hoe and Healing At Westlawn Hillcrest Memorial Park.

Memorial are suggested to The Solid Rock Church, 2240 Railroad Highway, Council Bluffs, IA, 51503.