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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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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
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
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
Business Map & Information In 1931 by Clark Bardole
“I Remember Rippey” by Lester Zanotti
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MEETING MINUTES
March 2021 (Friends of Rippey & Sesquicentennial Meeting)
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Rippey, IA Businesses Through the Years