Floyd Shipp

Fatally Hurt In Railroad Mishap On Great Western
Floyd Shipp, 55, Resided In Manning Several Years; Buried At Irwin Funeral services for Floyd Shipp of Carroll, formerly of Manning were held at the Irwin Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 3, with the Rev. Hugo Orf of the Carroll Methodist Church in charge. Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery in Irwin. The Irwin Legion Post furnished military escort.

Mr. Shipp's body remained at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning until the time of the rites.

Mr. Shipp, Great Western road-master at Carroll, was injured fatally at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 21, 1954, while supervising loading of scrap from a derailment wreck near Carroll. Half of a wrecked box car rolled over on him.

He was born on November 24, 1899, in Shelby County, and grew to manhood in Harlan. He was married to Melinda Axland of Irwin, and the family lived in Irwin, Somers, Halbur, and Manning. In 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Shipp moved to Carroll. Mrs. Shipp died in July of last year.

Mr. Shipp is survived by a son, Eugene of Omaha; a brother, Estel, of Glendora, California, and three sisters, Miss Reba Shipp of Lincoln, Nebraska; Mrs. Norma Rohde of Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska, and Mrs. Wanda Breedon of Glendale, California.

Mr. Shipp was a veteran of World War I. He had been in railroad work all his life.

FLOYD SHIPP
The Methodist Church at Irwin was filled at final rites at 2 p.m. Sunday for Floyd Shipp, 54, Chicago Great Western Roadmaster, who was killed Thursday afternoon, January 21, 1954, while supervising the loading of scrap at the scene of a derailment one and one-half miles west of Carroll.

The Rev. C. Hugo Orf, minister of the Carroll Methodist Church, officiated at the rites.

Mr. Shipp was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Irwin, Iowa, beside his wife, Malinda (Axland) Shipp, who died July 5, 1953.

Son of Nora Bennett (Headley) Shipp, he was born November 24, 1899.

F.E. Darling of Carroll was one of the pallbearers. The others, all railroad associates of Mr. Shipp, were Fred Hoffmann of St. Paul, Minnesota; Roy Feld, Halbur, Iowa; Ray Lohmeier, Manning, Iowa; Howard Sorenson, Oelwein, Iowa; and Howard Kobbe, Clarion, Iowa.

Among Carroll friends at the rites were Mrs. Orf, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lockhart, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Buchheit, Mrs. Charles M. Clark, Mrs. E.S. Knippel, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rust, Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Crabtree, Francis Conley, and Francis Clark.

Mr. Shipp had been Roadmaster here for the Chicago Great Western since 1948. He had formerly lived at Irwin for a number of years.