Charles Edward Shipley

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Charles Edward Shipley

Birth
Nashville, Brown County, Indiana, USA
Death
22 Dec 1976 (aged 47)
Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Nashville, Brown County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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He married Pauline Bryant on March 18, 1951 in Adair County, Kentucky. They had three children, Christine, Joe Edwin, and Charlene. With him being in the service, in the early years the family lived in many different locations, but eventually settled in Morgan County, Indiana.

His December 29, 1976 obituary:

Charles Edward Shipley, 48, Route 1, Nineveh, died at his home Wednesday, December 22 from a gunshot wound. He was employed by Western Electric as a machine operator.

He was born in Brown County on December 28, 1928 to Isaac and Mary Jane (Hedger) Shipley.

Shipley is survived by a son, Joe Edwin Shipley of Route 1, Gosport, and two daughters, Christine Walters of Danville, Illinois [should be Indiana], and Charlene Shipley of Route 2, Morgantown.

He is also survived by two brothers, Mike Shipley of Martinsville, and James Shipley of Whiteland, four sisters, Doris Ross of Franklin, Tinzie Percifield of Nashville, Florence Cave of Trafalgar, and Bernice Anderson of Trafalgar, and two half sisters, Daisy Henderson and Chloe Townsend, both of Arcadia, Indiana.

Funeral services were held Monday, December 27, at Bond’s Funeral Home, Reverend Ray Unger officiating. Burial was in the Shipley Cemetery on Jackson Branch Road.

[Obituary republished in Brown County, Indiana Obituaries, 1914-1984, Volume 2, page 1247. Information from member David Tate]
He married Pauline Bryant on March 18, 1951 in Adair County, Kentucky. They had three children, Christine, Joe Edwin, and Charlene. With him being in the service, in the early years the family lived in many different locations, but eventually settled in Morgan County, Indiana.

His December 29, 1976 obituary:

Charles Edward Shipley, 48, Route 1, Nineveh, died at his home Wednesday, December 22 from a gunshot wound. He was employed by Western Electric as a machine operator.

He was born in Brown County on December 28, 1928 to Isaac and Mary Jane (Hedger) Shipley.

Shipley is survived by a son, Joe Edwin Shipley of Route 1, Gosport, and two daughters, Christine Walters of Danville, Illinois [should be Indiana], and Charlene Shipley of Route 2, Morgantown.

He is also survived by two brothers, Mike Shipley of Martinsville, and James Shipley of Whiteland, four sisters, Doris Ross of Franklin, Tinzie Percifield of Nashville, Florence Cave of Trafalgar, and Bernice Anderson of Trafalgar, and two half sisters, Daisy Henderson and Chloe Townsend, both of Arcadia, Indiana.

Funeral services were held Monday, December 27, at Bond’s Funeral Home, Reverend Ray Unger officiating. Burial was in the Shipley Cemetery on Jackson Branch Road.

[Obituary republished in Brown County, Indiana Obituaries, 1914-1984, Volume 2, page 1247. Information from member David Tate]

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For Our Dad
Charles E Shipley
A1C US Air Force
Korea
Dec 28 1928 ✞ Dec 22 1976
In God We Trust

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His wife said that his place of death was Trafalgar but both his obituary and Death Certificate indicate Nineveh. The DC informant was his son.

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