He was born on July 25, 1939 in Caldwell County to the late Thomas Edgar Sipes and Evie Josephine Craig Sipes. Mr. Sipes was a member of Temple Baptist Church and a helpful member of the John and Romans Ministry. He loved to golf, fish, and hunt. Mr. Sipes was an especially skilled woodworker.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife, Bonnie Loueva Hardin Sipes; daughter, Vickie Josephine Sipes; brothers, Gene, John, Harold, and George Sipes; sister, Elma Jane Minton; and grandchildren, Vanessa Kirby, Earl Baxter Trivette Jr., and Tonya Lee Trivette.
Those left to cherish his memory include his sons, Tommy Sipes and wife Marsha of Hickory and Mitchell Sipes and wife Cindy of Lenoir; daughters, Nancy Trivette of Lenoir, Connie Hendrix and husband James of Lenoir, and Sherry Triplett and husband Todd of Hudson; grandchildren, Heath Sipes, Stephanie Sipes, Brandy Lewis, Heather Abel, Chasity Jones, Andrew Trivette, Megan McFalls, Dylan Brooks, Parker Sipes, Wendy Crestwell, Gary Wayne Beard, Brittany Beard, and Kaitlin Beard, twenty great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.
A funeral service for Mr. Sipes will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at Temple Baptist Church with Pastor Joel Bixler and Pastor Kevin Broyhill officiating. A receiving of friends will be held at the church, prior to the service, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
The family respectfully requests that memorials be made in Mr. Sipes memory to Temple Baptist Church Seedline Ministry, 1306 Old North Road NW, Lenoir, North Carolina 28645.
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