Warren Phipps
Buz Phipps
Sian Mo
Uncle Dexter
Babies - Creation
Deceased
Jerry Phipps
Farm update
Search for natural mother
Kwestion Korner

Holiday 1999 Phipps Phamily Newsletter

GREETINGS! Keep those letters coming, and send us news, articles, photos, poems, artwork or anything else you want to share with the Newsletter!

LETTERS

Dear Chann & All,

Hey I heard your Dad and Eva eloped and got hitched up Chan. Has he told you as much? He hasn't told me, I just heard it through the grapevine.

How are you all doing? We are fine but Mary and myself are kinda tired right now, we have been roofing our old pizza place shop the last two days, and boy that is work! Actually, we are just putting on some used tin we are buying from the guy we used to rent the other pizza place from, but there's more work than ever, because you have to patch all the old holes and that's no fun at all. But we had to do something after all these years, the old roof was leaking pretty bad. We are just putting this tin down over the old tin and covering the seams in the middle. It should work pretty well---I hope, hope, hope. If it doesn't we'll always think it should have.

Mary Margaret and Tony have showed an interest in coming to the family Reunion, but they, like some of the others who live so very far away, need to know as early as possibly possible when it is going to be, so they will be able to start planning it out. Of course they live in Washington State again, so that is kinda iffy-----whether they get to come or not. But it will be nice if they can, Huh!?

Here is a picture for you to put in the Newsletter. (There were several black and white (copier) photos in the printed newsletter. Maybe in the future we will work out a way to scan those and add them to the photo album here.)

Well, I must close now and try to write to Idabel. I need to thank her for doing the taxes on the Family trust. She sent me a copy.

We Love you All and hope you are all doing great.

Love & Prayers, Uncle Warren and Aunt Mary. Chama, New Mexico


Dear Family and Friends,

Greetings from the Island of Java in Southeast Asia. I imagine it is a little cool back in the States right now but here it is barefoot weather!

Well I hope everyone is doing all right. I'm sorry it has been so long since my last letter but as most of you know my letters are like little rainstorms in the desert, few and far between! Anyway, I have news to report this time so I guess I will get on with it.

A few years ago I was planning a trip to Europe and so with this in mind I placed my name on an International pen-pal listing, now I know this seems strange considering my letter writing allergy, however my hope was to establish friends in Europe before I went there and make the trip a little more interesting, not to mention easier.

Well in this process I received a letter from a certain beautiful woman from Indonesia. We became friends through correspondence but as you can imagine I was quick to get her telephone number and before long we were on the phone to each other more often than correspondence by letter. So I guess to get to the point (and as many of you may have already guessed from the information already at hand), we are now engaged for marriage. I have been here in Indonesia since the middle of Nov. (99).

Right now I'm not for sure when I will return to the states but we are planning to be married in Oklahoma hopefully sometime around Feb. 2000 We will try to contact everyone as soon as we have a more certain date.

I am looking forward to introducing her to everyone as she is a wonderful girl and I am very proud of her.

Well that's about it from this corner of the world as the old writer's cramp kicks in, I guess I will sign off. My love and prayers are with you all and as they say here in Indonesia, "Salam manis" (Best wishes), and Goodbye.

Sincerely, Clayton (Buz) Phipps


Dear Channon & Family,

Shalom! I've just received your letter with the newsletter plus your family pictures in it and I was so happy to get it. I am so interested in the Newsletter. You are very wise to make it. I enjoyed reading it very much....

I am also happy to know a loving family as you have. I believe your family is a very happy Christian family as I can see and feel that. My family here give their regards to all of you. I hope this letter finds all of you healthy and happy, always because our God blesses you each day.

It is dry season here. The place where we live (Tangerang) is a hot place and very close to Jakarta (Capital City), but it rained a lot this afternoon so it is cool now.

I really want to know your wife (Trish) better if she doesn't mind, and also Nicole. She is a very pretty young girl. From the picture I can tell that you have a great son. I am honored to know all of you. I really don't know what to say.

It is true that I am a school teacher and I am teaching math, physics, chemistry and English. I like teaching and children a lot.

Thank you very much for the Newsletter, pictures and the letter. I will treasure them. I really like the Newsletter so keep publishing it. It is so good that each member of the family can keep in touch...because family was formed by God and He will bless a good family when every member loves and cares for each other.

As I said before that I would like to know your wife better so I am waiting for another letter from you and her, also the kids (Michael and Nicole). I think I will close for now because it is late and tomorrow I have to teach. I am also anxious to see all of you. May God bless you and watch over you. Thank you for the things you sent. Be happy! Please send my greetings to the others.

Sincerely yours, Sian Mo, in Jawa Barat, Indonesia


Uncle Dexter

Dear Chain,

Well, I was sittun heer thinkin about things, and thowt mabey it wood be good ta pass on some of the learnin's that I pickt up during my pert neer ninedy or a hunert or eighty years (or whatevir it may bee, I don't recolleckt fer sure how old I am now). Leestways I hope the yunger jinerashun of the family will take it all ta hart and pay attinshun to it, cause its some good things ta know.

Well Chain, that's abowt it fer now. I shure do like ta git the Famuly Newspapper. You jist keep on sendin' it up here ta Scudbug Mt. . Me'n old Slingshot, we reed it ovir two er three times afore we nail 'em ta the wall ta keep the draft out. Corse I don't meen Slingshot reeds the newspapper all by hisself, I hafta help him with the big wirds.

Dexter P.


CHRISTMAS by Mina Arnold Young

(As published in the Southwest Times Record, reprinted by permission of the author)

Our most important holiday was initiated in honor of a Baby, so it is appropriate to think about babies at the Christmas season.

A baby's life begins when two tiny cells, a sperm cell from the father and an egg cell from the mother, blend into one. That little cell holds more information than the most complex computer. It tells the color of skin, eyes and hair. It tells what will be the ingredients of every fluid in the body, the size and shape of the bones, and whether or not the person will be musical or artistic---in short the whole blueprint of the person.

Isn't it contrary reason to believe, and to allow our children to be taught, that this marvelous design could come about by blind chance, with no intelligence involved? Surely it must be the work of an all-wise, loving Being too wonderful for us to fully understand!

And is it not an insult to that living Being to destroy that little one before he or she can fulfill the destiny for which it was designed?


Deceased

We are sad to report that Lilly's daughter and 2 granddaughters were killed in a car wreck in Oklahoma.

Betsy Ann Jewell Childress -- Sept 6, 1973-Nov 1, 1999

Beloved Daughters: Felicia age 7 and Alicia age 5

Given into the Hands of a Loving and Just God. You will always remain bright in our hearts and memories. We love you and will miss you.


Jerry Phipps E-mailed us after finding the Phipps family web page. Read what he says here.


Uncle Warren and Aunt Mary are here as I write this, so I thought I would get an update on some of the events concerning the Farm straight from Uncle Warren:

From Warren: Vern, Barb, Mary and I have cut enough, (or possibly enough) lumber for the roof on the pavilion. If we build the floor out of rocks and cement them, then we won't have to use lumber and that could save quite a bit. We can use cedar posts for the uprights and cement them into the ground. We can put a tin roof on it and it would about be ready to go. There is a questionnaire pullout in this edition of the Newsletter to find out when would be a good time for anyone/everyone to come up for a work day or two on a weekend. We will see what we can get done and maybe hold the Reunion there this year.


Hi

I came across your family newsletter on the web and just had to contact you. I was born in 1961 at Mercy Hospital in Denver Colorado. I was born Baby Girl Phipps. My mother gave me up for adoption at birth. She would have been 15 when I was born. I remember some paperwork that said her birth date was December 1945 or 46.

Someone told my adopted mom that her name was Mary Jo Phipps. I don't know if that is true. I was able to secure my hospital birth records and the name Baby Girl Phipps was true. My birth mom may have been from Washington State. I don't know if that is true. I can get all of this info if I pay the State of Colorado $500.00. I am just stubborn enough to hold on that for awhile to see if I can find anything myself. I don't agree with having to pay money for something other people are born knowing. I also have 5 kids so my money is better spent on them. My name now is Patricia Dukeman everyone calls me Trish. If you know of Mary Jo, or if you can give me any information I would appreciate it.

Thanks, Trish Dukeman


KWESTION KORNER by Mina Arnold Young

Q: Where Did Cain Get His Wife? Why is this a problem?

  1. Many people think that there were only four people on the earth at this time because only four are named in the Bible. But God had commanded Adam and Eve to multiply and fill the earth with people and we have no reason to believe that they failed to do so.

  2. Cain must have married a sister or a niece, and that would not be acceptable in these days. But when the world was young there were no genetic diseases such as plague the world's population today. Even as late as Abraham's day it was all right for him to marry his half-sister. But by the time of Moses this practice had to be discontinued.

  3. The age factor. Most of us, when we were young, saw Bible story books that pictured Cain and Abel as very young men, perhaps even teen-agers. Actually, they were probably over a hundred years old, and great-grandparents at least. There must have been something special about Abel, because God sent Seth as a special replacement for him. We read that God sent Seth as a replacement for Abel, and Seth was born when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old. You don't send replacements a hundred years later!

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