From the Daily Independent in Ridge Crest, Calif. we hear of the passing of Don G Tippet, Jr. Tippet was an intern at Ravenswood Baptist Church in the late 1960′s.
The obit reports Tippet passed due to complications from diabetes. He was 66.
Tippits was born in Long Beach, Calif to Don, Sr. and Rosemary Tippet. He was the oldest of five children. He attended Millikan High School and Long Beach City College.
He married Virginia Cargo, a classmate at Baptist Bible College of Springfield, Mo. in 1965. Graduated from BBC in 1969 and moved to Chicago to intern at the Ravenswood Baptist Church.
While in Chicago the couple had their third child.
Tippet gained ordination in 1974 and moved to Baja as a missionary.
He worked, as many Baptist ministers do, a second job as a McDonald Douglas machinist.
Read more at the Daily Independent
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