Rippey Sesquicentennial

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The Rippey, Iowa, Sesquicentennial was held on Saturday, July 31, 2021.
Thank you to all who submitted remembrances for the “I Remember Rippey.” commemorative book.
Below are some remembrances from the book.

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Eric Gonder

Remembering The FFA Trips by Lynn Wilson

Rippey Memories 1947-1958 by Lloyd DeMoss

Snow Pants by Kathy Lansman Young

An Interview With LaVere Derry. Rippey Community’s Oldest Male Citizen

An Interview With Mary Cunningham. Rippey Community’s Oldest Female Citizen

My Rippey by Becky Tiffany Zimmerman

Bubble Up And Dress-Up by Brittany (Fessler) Jungck

Some Early Settlers Of The Rippey Area By Roger L. Crumley MD May 10, 2020

Buckeye Coal Mine Baseball Team 1905 by Matthew Lepke, Grandson Of Jean McKelvey McElheney

Lucky To Grow Up In Rippey by Roger L. Crumley (RHS 1960)

More Thoughts While Drinking Morning Coffee And Remembering…. by Julene Ann Rittgers Boza

That Frankenstein Mask!! by Steve Nail

I Remember Rippey’s Library by Toni Roberts

A Christmas Story by Marna Rittgers Parker

Easter Bunny Visits Kindergarten Class At Rippey School by Marna Rittgers Parker

Rippey Fire Department by Mary Weaver, Jean Borgeson And Peter Johnson

Church In Rippey By CaroleAnne Souder Vannoy

Detasseling Memories by Julene Rittgers Hunt Boza

One-Liners From Rippey Readers

The Bench by Marna Rittgers Parker

Memories Of Rippey 1943 – 1961 by Sharon Bardole McBlain

My Grandfather’s Life In The Coal Mine by Lynn Wilson

The Case Of The Inept Bank Robbers–1967
by Myron Rinker and Nancy Bardole Hanaman with information written by Clark Bardole

Hold Up At People’s Bank In Rippey, Oct. 2009 by Nancy Bardole Hanaman interviewing Myron Rinker
(Additional information from Jefferson newspapers)

Two Reflections by Dale Hanaman

Rippey Wind Farm by Mary Weaver

Lucky To Be From Rippey by Fred Grow

Walking Beans And Detasseling by Mary Fry Liebich

Halloween by Mary Fry Liebich

Al Bell Day At School by Phyllis McElheney Lepke

Summer In Rippey by Mary Fry Liebich

Hay Baling Memories by Duane Coon

2020 Bike Ride To Rippey by Mary Dorris Weaver

Farewell To The Rippey School, 1921-2012 by Nancy Hanaman

Rippey Methodist Church Annual Halloween Costume Party by Mike Sharingson

Rippey’s Legacy Of Plowing Champions by Robert Huber

Country Doctor by David Chase

Old Rippey Moves To The Railroad by Mary Dorris Weaver

Coal Mining And The Zanotti Family Gina Zanotti Daley

Halloween Memories by Ellen Johnston

Neighbors Helping Neighbors Is A Part Of Rural Iowa Life by Carol Thompson Sieck

Positively Memorable by John Rains

Transportation Via School Buses by Mary Dorris Weaver Interviewing Diane Hoskinson Ostrander

Sale Barn(s) by Mary Dorris Weaver

Basketball Games by Linda Young

My Love For Rippey by Clark Fessler

How Our Town Got Its Name by Lynn Wilson

Rippey, Iowa, Main Street Businesses, 1950s

Rippey Skating Rink by Cindy Anderson Cole

A Baseball Prayer by Pat Daugherty

Community Treasure by Pat Daugherty

Rippey Was Long A Baseball Town by Robert Huber

Rippey’s Favorite Recipes by Mary Weaver

Oh, Those Party Lines…by Phyllis McElheney Lepke

Sports, Sports, Sports by Jim Fouch

“I Remember Rippey” by Jerald Fessler

All Aboard! Trip From Rippey To Grand Junction In 1953 by Nancy Bardole Hanaman

“I Remember Rippey” by Kathy Lansman Young

Memory Of Rippey Fireworks by Marna Rittgers Parker with help from her sister, Julene Rittgers Hunt June 11, 2015

Business Map & Information In 1931 by Clark Bardole

“I Remember Rippey” by Lester Zanotti

MEETING MINUTES

July 18, 2021

July 11, 2021

June 27, 2021

May 23, 2021

April 25, 2021

April 11, 2021

March 2021

March 2021 (Friends of Rippey & Sesquicentennial Meeting)

October 2020

February 2020

December 2019

November 2019

October 6, 2019

August 6, 2019

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