A graveside memorial service for Harold Benjamin Tippin, age 88, will be at 1:00 P.M. Friday, April 20, 2007, at the Wakita Cemetery, with Rev. Dan O’Daniel officiating.  Cremation arrangements were by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home and Crematory.  There will be no visitation or viewing at the funeral home.  The register book will be at the graveside service.

            He was born to Jesse Howard and Lucinda Jane (Wilson) Tippin on January 16, 1919, in Wakita, and died Saturday, April 14, 2007, at his home in Enid.

            He attended schools at Deer Creek.  On April 10, 1938, he married Bette Slaughter in Cherokee, and they made their home in the Wakita area, where they farmed.  After he retired from farming, they moved to Enid in 1992.  He was a member of the Cowboy Church.

            He is survived by his wife Bette of the home; two daughters, Judith Nathan of Enid, Carla Horning of Ada; one son John Tippin of Honolulu, HI; eleven grandchildren; twenty-eight grandchildren; eight great great grandchildren; and one sister Maxine Williams of Tulsa.

            He was preceded in death by daughter Sharon Mattingly.

            Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Hospice Circle of Love.