Seventh Generation

3256. Nannie Elizabeth HAWN was born on 7 December 1907 in Catawba County, North Carolina.⁴⁹⁶ She died on 17 March 2007 at the age of 99 in Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. She was buried in Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, North Carolina. Her obituary appeared as follows: Conover - Nannie Elizabeth Hawn Sipe, 99, of County Home Road, died Saturday, March 17, 2007, at Catawba Valley Medical Center. Born Dec. 7, 1907, in Catawba County, she was the daughter of the late Abel Quincy and Mary Claudia Bost Hawn. She was a very active member of Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Conover and the Women of the ELCA. Nannie was a charter member of the quilting group for Lutheran World Relief, which provided quilts and bookbags around the world. She made her last quilts and bookbags at the age of 98. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Luther Earl Sipe; a grandson, Mark Herman Sipe; four sisters; and three brothers. Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law, Joe Neill and Dorothy Eckard Sipe of Hickory and Ned Eugene and Marolyn Herman Sipe of Conover; a foster son, Rayford Hahn Clement of Linwood; grandchildren and spouses, Neill and Laura Sipe of Claremont, Duane and Debbie Sipe of Hickory, Scottie and Dale Smith of Newton, Tina Sipe of Conover and Julie and Alan Klutz of Newton; eight great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. A Service of Remembrance will be held at 4 p.m. today, Sunday, March 18, 2007, at Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Conover, with the Revs. Dr. David Seymour and Kristine Hill officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will be at the church from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. prior to the service. Pallbearers who will be serving are Kevin Sipe, Jason Sipe, Brian Sipe, Brenton Smith, Nicholas Sipe and Addison Klutz. Honorary pallbearer will be Austin Klutz. Memorials may be made to Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 4420 County Home Road, Conover, N.C. 28613. The Sipe family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremations in Conover. [Published in the Hickory Daily Record on 3/18/2007]

Nannie Elizabeth HAWN and Luther Earl SIPE were married estimated 1925. Luther Earl SIPE, son of Titus E. Alphonso SIPE and Amy Martha Jane HUFFMAN, was born in 1905 in Catawba County, North Carolina.^1224,1226 He died in 1986 at the age of 81 in Catawba County, North Carolina.¹²²⁴ He was buried in Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, North Carolina.

Nannie Elizabeth HAWN and Luther Earl SIPE had the following children: