OBITYARY
The Kansas City Star
Henry Jackson "Jack" Flippo, 66, of Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2003 at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kas., after a brief battle with cancer.
Mr. Flippo was born in Morrilton, Ark. on February 19, 1937 to Nora Ethel Turner Flippo and Henry Homer Flippo. He spent his childhood years living in Kansas, Missouri and Edmonton Canada moving to Kansas City at the age of 13. Despite being crippled and needing a walker to move about, he graduated from Center High School in 1956, from Kansas City Junior College in 1958, and received a BA in History from Kansas City University (now, University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1960. He attended the UNKC School of Law, and received jis Juris Doctorate in 1963. He Began his career as a title examiner with Kansas City Title, and in 1972 became the chief title examiner for St. Paul Title. He also worked at Stewart Title before moving up to become Chief Agency Underwriter for First American Title, responsible for properties in seven states. Mr. Flippo was widely known and respected throughout the title industry.
Jack was fascinated by history and by the great explorers of the past, his role model was Prince Henry the Navigator, and he filled this role by traveling extensively in North America, Central America and Europe. During the 1960s to the 1980s he traveled mainly by automobile with his high school friend and aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson, and physicist Don McSparron. Together they drove the Alaska Highway when it was 1500 miles of gravel road each way, drove to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, Mexico City and Acapulco in 1963, and flew to Hawaii in 1965. In 1968, he visited the Yucatan Peninsula and the Mayan pyamids. Sprinkled among these trips the trio made many drives to California, Las Vegar, Florida and the northeast, and in 1999 a memorable rail trip across Europe to see a total solar eclipse from Salzburg, Austria. In the 1990s Jack started taking ocean cruises, to the Western Caribbean in 1998, Alaska in 2001, and finally, the Mediteranean from Venice to Barcelona in 2002. Jack said that highlight of his world travels was being in Venice, Italy, a center of Western Civilization during the Renaissance. Jack took his last trip in June 2003 through the Black Hills of North Dakota, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Tetaon Mountains with close friends Chet and Glenda Smith of Neosho. Mo. Sadly he will miss the trip this fall with Jerome and Don through the Panama Canal.
Mr. Flippo is survived by his aunt Ida Gobelet Turner, his cousin Mary Jane McEntire and her daughter Stephanie McEntire all of Prairie Village, Kas. In addition to a host of other cousins across the country. Private family burial. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. August 16, 2003 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons, Stein & McClure Chapel at 3235 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Mo. Inlieu of flowers the family suggest donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
The Kansas City Star
Henry Jackson "Jack" Flippo, 66, of Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2003 at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kas., after a brief battle with cancer.
Mr. Flippo was born in Morrilton, Ark. on February 19, 1937 to Nora Ethel Turner Flippo and Henry Homer Flippo. He spent his childhood years living in Kansas, Missouri and Edmonton Canada moving to Kansas City at the age of 13. Despite being crippled and needing a walker to move about, he graduated from Center High School in 1956, from Kansas City Junior College in 1958, and received a BA in History from Kansas City University (now, University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1960. He attended the UNKC School of Law, and received jis Juris Doctorate in 1963. He Began his career as a title examiner with Kansas City Title, and in 1972 became the chief title examiner for St. Paul Title. He also worked at Stewart Title before moving up to become Chief Agency Underwriter for First American Title, responsible for properties in seven states. Mr. Flippo was widely known and respected throughout the title industry.
Jack was fascinated by history and by the great explorers of the past, his role model was Prince Henry the Navigator, and he filled this role by traveling extensively in North America, Central America and Europe. During the 1960s to the 1980s he traveled mainly by automobile with his high school friend and aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson, and physicist Don McSparron. Together they drove the Alaska Highway when it was 1500 miles of gravel road each way, drove to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, Mexico City and Acapulco in 1963, and flew to Hawaii in 1965. In 1968, he visited the Yucatan Peninsula and the Mayan pyamids. Sprinkled among these trips the trio made many drives to California, Las Vegar, Florida and the northeast, and in 1999 a memorable rail trip across Europe to see a total solar eclipse from Salzburg, Austria. In the 1990s Jack started taking ocean cruises, to the Western Caribbean in 1998, Alaska in 2001, and finally, the Mediteranean from Venice to Barcelona in 2002. Jack said that highlight of his world travels was being in Venice, Italy, a center of Western Civilization during the Renaissance. Jack took his last trip in June 2003 through the Black Hills of North Dakota, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Tetaon Mountains with close friends Chet and Glenda Smith of Neosho. Mo. Sadly he will miss the trip this fall with Jerome and Don through the Panama Canal.
Mr. Flippo is survived by his aunt Ida Gobelet Turner, his cousin Mary Jane McEntire and her daughter Stephanie McEntire all of Prairie Village, Kas. In addition to a host of other cousins across the country. Private family burial. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. August 16, 2003 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons, Stein & McClure Chapel at 3235 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Mo. Inlieu of flowers the family suggest donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
OBITYARY
The Kansas City Star
Henry Jackson "Jack" Flippo, 66, of Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2003 at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kas., after a brief battle with cancer.
Mr. Flippo was born in Morrilton, Ark. on February 19, 1937 to Nora Ethel Turner Flippo and Henry Homer Flippo. He spent his childhood years living in Kansas, Missouri and Edmonton Canada moving to Kansas City at the age of 13. Despite being crippled and needing a walker to move about, he graduated from Center High School in 1956, from Kansas City Junior College in 1958, and received a BA in History from Kansas City University (now, University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1960. He attended the UNKC School of Law, and received jis Juris Doctorate in 1963. He Began his career as a title examiner with Kansas City Title, and in 1972 became the chief title examiner for St. Paul Title. He also worked at Stewart Title before moving up to become Chief Agency Underwriter for First American Title, responsible for properties in seven states. Mr. Flippo was widely known and respected throughout the title industry.
Jack was fascinated by history and by the great explorers of the past, his role model was Prince Henry the Navigator, and he filled this role by traveling extensively in North America, Central America and Europe. During the 1960s to the 1980s he traveled mainly by automobile with his high school friend and aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson, and physicist Don McSparron. Together they drove the Alaska Highway when it was 1500 miles of gravel road each way, drove to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, Mexico City and Acapulco in 1963, and flew to Hawaii in 1965. In 1968, he visited the Yucatan Peninsula and the Mayan pyamids. Sprinkled among these trips the trio made many drives to California, Las Vegar, Florida and the northeast, and in 1999 a memorable rail trip across Europe to see a total solar eclipse from Salzburg, Austria. In the 1990s Jack started taking ocean cruises, to the Western Caribbean in 1998, Alaska in 2001, and finally, the Mediteranean from Venice to Barcelona in 2002. Jack said that highlight of his world travels was being in Venice, Italy, a center of Western Civilization during the Renaissance. Jack took his last trip in June 2003 through the Black Hills of North Dakota, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Tetaon Mountains with close friends Chet and Glenda Smith of Neosho. Mo. Sadly he will miss the trip this fall with Jerome and Don through the Panama Canal.
Mr. Flippo is survived by his aunt Ida Gobelet Turner, his cousin Mary Jane McEntire and her daughter Stephanie McEntire all of Prairie Village, Kas. In addition to a host of other cousins across the country. Private family burial. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. August 16, 2003 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons, Stein & McClure Chapel at 3235 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Mo. Inlieu of flowers the family suggest donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
The Kansas City Star
Henry Jackson "Jack" Flippo, 66, of Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2003 at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kas., after a brief battle with cancer.
Mr. Flippo was born in Morrilton, Ark. on February 19, 1937 to Nora Ethel Turner Flippo and Henry Homer Flippo. He spent his childhood years living in Kansas, Missouri and Edmonton Canada moving to Kansas City at the age of 13. Despite being crippled and needing a walker to move about, he graduated from Center High School in 1956, from Kansas City Junior College in 1958, and received a BA in History from Kansas City University (now, University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1960. He attended the UNKC School of Law, and received jis Juris Doctorate in 1963. He Began his career as a title examiner with Kansas City Title, and in 1972 became the chief title examiner for St. Paul Title. He also worked at Stewart Title before moving up to become Chief Agency Underwriter for First American Title, responsible for properties in seven states. Mr. Flippo was widely known and respected throughout the title industry.
Jack was fascinated by history and by the great explorers of the past, his role model was Prince Henry the Navigator, and he filled this role by traveling extensively in North America, Central America and Europe. During the 1960s to the 1980s he traveled mainly by automobile with his high school friend and aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson, and physicist Don McSparron. Together they drove the Alaska Highway when it was 1500 miles of gravel road each way, drove to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, Mexico City and Acapulco in 1963, and flew to Hawaii in 1965. In 1968, he visited the Yucatan Peninsula and the Mayan pyamids. Sprinkled among these trips the trio made many drives to California, Las Vegar, Florida and the northeast, and in 1999 a memorable rail trip across Europe to see a total solar eclipse from Salzburg, Austria. In the 1990s Jack started taking ocean cruises, to the Western Caribbean in 1998, Alaska in 2001, and finally, the Mediteranean from Venice to Barcelona in 2002. Jack said that highlight of his world travels was being in Venice, Italy, a center of Western Civilization during the Renaissance. Jack took his last trip in June 2003 through the Black Hills of North Dakota, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Tetaon Mountains with close friends Chet and Glenda Smith of Neosho. Mo. Sadly he will miss the trip this fall with Jerome and Don through the Panama Canal.
Mr. Flippo is survived by his aunt Ida Gobelet Turner, his cousin Mary Jane McEntire and her daughter Stephanie McEntire all of Prairie Village, Kas. In addition to a host of other cousins across the country. Private family burial. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. August 16, 2003 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons, Stein & McClure Chapel at 3235 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Mo. Inlieu of flowers the family suggest donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
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