Ethel Dowdle Hipps

ETHEL D. HIPPS Ethel Dowdle Hipps, 87, formerly of 26 Sandhurst Drive, Asheville, died Friday, April 8, 2005, at Pisgah Manor Nursing Center. Mrs. Hipps was born in Franklin and was a daughter of the late William Thomas and Mamie Ledbetter Dowdle. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jeter Lewis Hipps who died in 1988, three sisters Lucy Myers, Mary Dowdle and Ruby Nell Dowdle and three brothers Joseph Lawrence Dowdle, Jess Dowdle and Lester Dowdle. Mrs. Hipps went to work at American Enka at the age of thirteen to help support her family and more recently worked at the lunchroom at Sand Hill Elementary School. She was a member of Bent Creek Baptist Church and the Over 50 Sunday School Class and a former of Edgewood Baptist Church. Surviving are one daughter, Diane H. Walker and her husband Richard W. Walker, Jr. of Candler; two grandchildren, USMC Lance Cpl. Ryan Patrick Walker, serving on board the USS Harry S. Truman, and Lavern Leigh Walker of Candler; and two cousins, Joyce Lynn Green and Maxine Tinsley. A funeral service will be at 3:00 p.m. Sunday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Revs. Tommy Bridges and Charles Shelton officiating. Burial will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday at Pisgah View Memorial Park. Her family will receive friends Sunday at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. Memorials may be made to Bent Creek Baptist Church, 1554 Brevard Road, Asheville, NC 28806.