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For more information on the ancestry of Jay C. Flippen, actor, check out this brief biography in the biography section of the Flippin Families. If anyone knows anything about the acenstry of Lucy Lee Flippen, actress, please let me know. Thanks.
[posted 15 Aug 2008 by Nova Lemons]
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[contributed by Mike Meyer]
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), Thursday, 26 Apr 2007 --
Charles Howard "Pappy" Flippin, 1913 - 2007
Charles Howard "Pappy" Flippin, 93, a retired carpenter, died Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at his home. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Lake Worth Baptist Church, 4445 Hodgkins Road. Burial: Azleland Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: A charity of choice. "Pappy" was born Sept. 25, 1913, in Oklahoma to Elijah Charles and Temora May Flippin. He was a lifelong area resident and spent over 50 years building houses. "Pappy" was a horseman and used to say he was "tougher than a Montana boot with the heel knocked off and that he could handle the rankest stock on four feet." He didn't have children of his own, but he helped raise and endeared himself to all of his nieces and nephews. He will be greatly missed. Survivors: Wife, Ima Gene Flippin; stepsons, Lynn Witt and his wife, Kay, Jerry M. Flippen and his wife, Susan; stepdaughter, Doris Rowland; a number of stepgrandchildren, nephews and nieces; and a large extended family.
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[contributed by James Pylant]
Eastland Telegram (TX), Sunday, 14 Jan 2007 --
Wanda Faye Flippin, age 82, of Rising Star, TX passed away 9 Jan 2007 in Abilene. Funeral services were held at the Higginbotham Funeral Chapel in Cross Plains, TX, Friday, 12 Jan 2007. Burial was at Pioneer Cemetery. Wanda was born in Haskell County, TX to Willard and Vera Melton on 16 Nov 1924. She married Tom Flippin on 9 Jan 1942 in Eastland Co., TX. Survived by husband Thomas Flippin of the home; sons, Donald, Willard, and Jodee Flippin; daughter, Denise Hubbard; two daughters-in-law, Patty Ann and Patty Rose Flippin; grandchildren, Michael, David, Steven, Timothy and James Flippin, Angela Haynes, Dawn Rudolph, Dawn Bohenen, Jennifer Davis, Jonathon and Jacoby Hubbard; and 19 great-grandchildren.
