Mary D. Klipp

Visitation for Mary D. Klipp, 99, of Nokomis, Fla., formerly of Manteno, will be from 9 a.m. Saturday until the 11 a.m. funeral service at the Brown Funeral Home in Manteno. The Rev. Harvey Gaither will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Manteno. Memorials may be made to the Manteno United Methodist Church or to Tidwell Hospice of Sarasota, Fla. She passed away Sunday (May 4, 2014) at her daughters home. Mrs. Klipp was an Illinois Bell Telephone operator and worked at Minnichs Dairy and for the Florence Stove Co. She was born Nov. 3, 1914, in Manteno, the daughter of Alex and Julia Eonotchauks Nichiporenko. Her husband, Russell "Doug" Klipp, passed away in 1990. She enjoyed golfing, bowling and playing bridge. Surviving are one daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Bert Brucker, of Nokomis, Fla.; two grandchildren, Bert Brucker II, of New Jersey, and Angelique Winot, of Pennsylvania; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents.