Emma Lee Shipman died Wednesday September 5, 2012 at Medical Lodge East Nursing Facility in Haysville, Kansas. She was born on November 12, 1939 in Augusta, Kansas.
She met the love of her life Claudus Walter Shipman through an ad in the classified section of the local newspaper. Claudus and Emma were married on June 18, 1973. This was long before the internet and folks said, "That will never last"; but they were married for 39 wonderful years.
Emma was a homemaker and a kind and loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved her children and grandchildren. She also loved all the neighbor children and babying sitting them, sometimes up to 9 at a time.
Claudus and Emma spent most of their married life in and around the Wichita, Kansas area. Emma loved her Saviour Jesus Christ; she and Claudus' main interest was going to church. She loved singing and listening to Gospel Music.
She was proceeded in death by her parents Forrest and Margaret Ward; one son: Mark Denham.
She is survived by one son Roy Dale Wilson and wife Belinda of Prior, OK; four daughters: Nora Lee Michael of Wichita; Georgia Solis and husband John of Wichita; Roberta Shipman of Wichita; and Mellie Brewer of Arkansas; 15 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral Service will be held Monday 1:30 p.m. at Old Mission Mortuary with burial to follow in Old Mission Cemetery.