Person:Charles Hipple (1)

Paris newspaper clipping, undated: Paris relatives received word today of the death of Charles H. Hipple, 88, former resident which occurred at his home at Borger. Tex. He was born March 4, 1887, the son of Tobias and Martha Morehouse Hipple. After leaving Paris, he worked in concrete construction at Cushing, Okla., until 1932 when he moved to Borger. He retired 30 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Nelle Woods Hipple; two daughters, Mrs. George Self and Mrs. James Word, both of Borger; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, two brothers, Percy A. of Atlanta, Ga., and Paul R. of Paris. He was a member of First Christian Church in Borger and the Masonic Lodge Consistory at Guthrie, OK. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Saturday in Borger.

On his last visit to the home on South Main Street in Paris, IL, Charles gave a card to his niece printed with his favorite poem:

"Transmutation" When the last call comes, I would journey back Toward the setting sun by the old dim track; I would lay me down in the pasture's breast,

As the sun goes down in the deepening West,
When the low wind stirs in the rippling grass
And the blackbirds wheel and the wild geese pass;
And what care I if the night be dark?
I shall sweetly sleep to the coyote's bark--
The sage hen's call and the owl's weird cry;

And the rattlesnake's rhythmic lullaby. To be one forever and aye with the sod-- The night, the prairie, the stars and God.

1.   Martha Ogle.
2.   Social Security Death Index.