Margie Carrie Phipps
1916 - 1997 (80 years)-
Name Margie Carrie Phipps Birth 21 Dec 1916 Kilsyth, Fayette Co., WV 
[1] Gender Female Census 9 Apr 1930 Marfrance, Greenbrier Co., WV [2] - Lewis Phipps was 42 years old, renting a home in G & E Addition. Also living in his household were wife, Virginia H. (age 36); daughter, Blanch Day (age 18, married); son, Hansford (age 15); daughter, Margie (age 13); daughter, Francis (age 11); daughter, Stella (age 8); daughter, Louise (age 5); son, Edward (age 4); son, Frank (age 2-1/12); and son-in-law, Ernest Day (age 25).
- Role: Household Member
Death 9 Feb 1997 Meadow Bridge, Fayette Co., WV [1] Burial 13 Feb 1997 Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV [3] Person ID I14707 Meadow Bluff Meanderings Last Modified 19 Sep 2015
Father Lewis Edward Phipps, Sr., b. 16 Jan 1888, Sand Lick, Raleigh Co., WV d. 13 Oct 1966, Crawley, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 78 years) Mother Virginia Ellen Haley, b. 22 Jul 1892, Hinton, Summers Co., WV d. 21 Aug 1975, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 83 years) Marriage 27 Jul 1908 Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV [4] - Married at the home of the minister, James Sweeney.
Family ID F6480 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Lewis Pal Lowe, b. 9 Mar 1909, Russell Co., VA d. 8 May 1976, Lebanon, Russell Co., VA (Age 67 years) Marriage 6 Apr 1934 Quinwood, Greenbrier Co., WV [5] - The Post-Herald, Beckley, WV, 17 February 1959
Divorces Filed
LEWISBURG, Feb. 16 (RNS) - The following divorces have been filed in the Greenbrier County Circuit Clerk's office:
Margie Phipps Lowe vs. Pal Lowe of Drill, Va....
Divorce Filing 16 Feb 1959 Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., WV [6] Divorce 21 Apr 1959 Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., WV [7] Children 1. Virginia Ellen Lowe 2. Bonnie Yvonne Lowe, b. 8 Feb 1937, Marfrance, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 13 Aug 1987, Lambertville, Monroe Co., MI (Age 50 years)3. Juanita Louise Lowe Family ID F6527 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Feb 2010
Family 2 Everett Leslie "Mack" McCarty, b. 18 Mar 1897, Sinks Grove, Monroe Co., WV d. 19 Jul 1964, Crawley, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 67 years) Marriage 25 Apr 1960 Clifton Forge, VA [8] Family ID F13803 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 Sep 2015
Family 3 Fred Watson Counts, b. 9 Sep 1905, Gap Mills, Monroe Co., WV d. 26 Jan 1987, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 81 years) Marriage 21 Apr 1969 Clifton Forge, Alleghany Co., VA [7, 9] Family ID F6526 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 Sep 2015
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Event Map 
Census - 9 Apr 1930 - Marfrance, Greenbrier Co., WV 
Marriage - 6 Apr 1934 - Quinwood, Greenbrier Co., WV 
Marriage - 25 Apr 1960 - Clifton Forge, VA 
Marriage - 21 Apr 1969 - Clifton Forge, Alleghany Co., VA 
Burial - 13 Feb 1997 - Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - The Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, 12 Feb 1997
MEADOW BRIDGE - Margie Carrie Counts, 80, died Sunday, Feb. 9, 1997, in a Hinton hospital following a short illness.
Born Dec. 21, 1916, in Kilsyth, she was the daughter of the late Lewis E. and Virginia Haley Phipps.
Mrs. Counts was a homemaker and had been a resident of Meadow Bridge since 1987.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Watson Counts in 1987; a daughter, Bonnie Dotson; three sisters, Effie Chase, Blanch Thompson and Frances Hizer; four brothers, Hansford Phipps, Lewis E. Phipps, Harry F. Phipps and Noah F. Phipps.
Survivors include two daughters, Virginia Falls of Sinks Grove and Juanita Counts of Meadow Bridge; a son-in-law, Robert Dotson of Lambertville, Mich.; three sisters, Stella Hunter of Meadow Bluff, Gertrude Thompson and Louise Lloyd, both of Lordsburg, N.M.; a brother, Ulysses Phipps of Arizona; 17 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home Chapel, Rainelle with the Rev. Leroy Crane officiating. Burial will follow in Wallace Memorial Cemetery at Clintonville.
Friends may call from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home in Rainelle.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Arrangements by Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle.
- The Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, 12 Feb 1997
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Sources - [S866] Obituary: The Beckley Register-Herald.
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