Lovina Scott Ebbe, an 86-year-old resident of Columbia, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002 at Lenoir Healthcare.
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Lovina Scott Ebbe, an 86-year-old resident of Columbia, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002 at Lenoir Healthcare.
Memorial services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002 at the First Christian Church in Columbia. Dr. John Yonker will officiate.
Visitation will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday at the church.
Mrs. Ebbe was born on Dec. 13, 1915 in Harda, India, the daughter of Wilford Scott and Mayme Jackson Scott, who both worked as missionaries for the Disciples of Christ Church. She moved to Columbia in 1926. She attended the Christian College (now Columbia College) and the University of Missouri. She married Earl Ebbe in 1939 and made her home in Trenton for 30 years. During this time, she worked as a free-lance artist and held an art position with the Royal Arch Mason magazine. She volunteered as a Sunday School teacher for 20 years and with the Girl Scouts for 25 years. She was also a volunteer force behind the PTA, the local Great Books Club and the American Association of University Women. Mrs. Ebbe was very active in the Trenton Christian Church, serving two terms as chairman of the local church board. She also served as vice president of the state board, where she represented Missouri on the National Home Ministries board which started the Lenior Retirement Home and the Woodhaven Home Learning Center in Columbia. In 1976, Mrs. Ebbe earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 1977, she moved permanently to Columbia to accept a position in the library department at Columbia College and in 1978 she was made director of the library. After a serious automobile accident in 1979, Mrs. Ebbe gave up her library position and focused on activities at the First Christian Church and the docent program for the UMC Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Mrs. Ebbe is survived by her husband, Earl Ebbe of Columbia; three sisters, Hilda McLaughlin and Eleanor Hearn of Dallas, TX and Rebecca Wong of San Francisco, CA; one son, Christopher Ebbe of Claremont, CA; one daughter, Katrinka Ebbe-Wheeler of Bethsada, MD; and three grandchildren, also of Bethsada.
Mrs. Ebbe was preceded in death by her parents.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church Ark Project for Heifer International.