Sarah “Ruth” Chipps, a 91-year-old Chillicothe resident and a former resident of Barnett, passed away on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at Morningside Center in Chillicothe surrounded by her family.
A private family service will be held at the Lindley Funeral Home at Chillicothe, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Burial will be held at Half Rock Cemetery at Half Rock.
Ruth was born on Feb. 13, 1930 in Half Rock, the daughter of Levi Allen and Eva Gertrude McCullough Hague. She attended Rhoades School in Mercer County until the eighth grade, and then was needed at home to help on the farm.
Ruth worked a few jobs, including a telephone switchboard in her home before going to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1960, where she worked 31 years and four months before retiring from Southwestern Bell in 1992.
She enjoyed taking care of her children, cooking, baking and was a great homemaker, teaching all her children to cook.
At the age of 10, she and her mother joined Providence Baptist Church and were baptized together in the neighbor’s new pond. Later in years, she joined Hopewell Christian Church at Barnett.
Survivors include one son, Andy Dusenberry and his wife, Rachel of Florence; four daughters, Wilma Jones and her husband, Alan of Hamilton, Wanda Haley and her husband, Raymond of Chillicothe, Joan Hill of Grant City and Eva Johnson and her husband, Mark of Marionville; one stepson, Marshall Dusenberry and his wife, Mary of Chillicothe; 19 grandchildren; 34 great- grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Jack Hague of Chillicothe and Jim Hague of Missouri City; one sister, Mary Wallace of Trenton; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by three husbands, George Garrison, Russell Dusenberry and Denver Chipps; a son, Bill Garrison; a daughter-in-law, Janet Garrison; a son-in-law, Rex Hill; a stepson, Jack Dusenberry; a grandson, Clint Haley; two great-grandsons, Daniel Cosgrove and Gabriel Navarrete; brothers and sisters, J.L., infant sister, Helen, Alan, Dale, Bill, Max, Ed, Bob, Devona, Betty and Donna.
Memorial contributions may be made to Half Rock Cemetery and may be left at or mailed to Lindley Funeral Home, P.O. Box 47, Chillicothe, MO 64601.
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