Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, December 23, 1987
Lloyd Wilbur Shippy, 80, New Plymouth, formerly of Mansfield, Wash., a retired heavy equipment mechanic, died Dec. 15, 1987, in an Ontario hospital. Graveside services were conducted Dec. 19 in Parkview Cemetery, New Plymouth, Elder Ray Brock and Elder Art Horner of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, co-officiated, under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, New Plymouth.
He was born March 11, 1907, at Arlington, Iowa, a son of Wilbur and Myrtle Shippy. He moved with his family to Genoway, Colo. in 1908, where he was raised and educated and worked on the family farm as a young man. He moved to Idaho in 1938 and bought a farm at New Plymouth in 1940. He enlisted in 1942 in the U.S. Army, serving as a Master Sergeant in the Air Corp in Europe until 1945. He returned to the States and settled in Mansfield, where he worked as a heavy equipment mechanic for Jansen Equipment Co. He retired in 1978 and moved back to New Plymouth to be near his sisters and their families. He lived in Ontario at Meadowbrook Retirement Center from 1986 until his death. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign War in Mansfield and New Plymouth; and a member of the Mansfield Volunteer Fire Department. He enjoyed fishing and hunting.
Survivors include four sisters, Gladys Peterson of Kellerton, Iowa; Mabel Parton, Muriel Alderson and Velma Nelson all of New Plymouth; and 13 nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, and a sister.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, P.O. Box 730, Payette, 83661.
