Charles "Charlie" Sipe

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. — Charles “Charlie” Sipe of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008, at the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, Iowa. Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Friday, October 31, 2008, at the Church of God, Mt. Carroll with Pastor Rick Zickefoose officiating. Friends may call from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday, October 30, 2008, at the Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Mt. Carroll, and also one hour prior to the service at the church. Memorials may be made in Charlie’s name. Online condolences and memorial tributes may be sent to the family at www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com. Charlie was born July 14, the son of Bert Lee and Mamie Alice (Riley) Sipe in Mohawk, Tennessee. On August 6, 1976, Charlie married Linda L. Bender in Rogerville, Tennessee. Upon moving to Carroll County, Illinois, Charlie took a job at the Savanna Ice House and the Milwaukee Railroad for 24 years. He owned and operated Charlie’s Tavern in Savanna and Charlie’s II Tavern in Mt. Carroll. He also worked for Kasbohm Custom Drilling in Savanna. Charlie lived and farmed near Mt. Carroll where he and Linda raised five children. He loved his grandchildren, there was nothing that gave him more joy then his grandchildren. He enjoyed sitting around with friends and telling stories, or out moving earth with his bulldozer. He loved a good challenge, truth be told, Charlie wrestled a bear and lived to tell about it. He climbed a telephone poll backwards with out falling. Charlie was a unique, interesting and loving man. Charlie will be dearly missed by his wife, Linda, of Mt. Carroll; four sons, Tim Snapp of Greenville, TN; Tom Sipe of Savanna; Donnie (India) Sipe of Mt. Carroll and Charlie (Tonya) Sipe of Mt. Carroll; three daughters, Peggy (George) Grams of Camanche, Iowa; Bobbie Jo (Carl) Bates of Mt. Carroll and Stacie (Robert) Klein of Savanna; six stepdaughters; twenty six-grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren; seven sisters, Lenore “Sis” Cobble, Annie Richer, Peggy (Larry) Wilder, Nancy (George) Tempest, all of Tennessee; Betty Kalal of Minnesota, Ella Bea Horner and Jane (Bill) Atkenson of Wisconsin; and numerous stepgrandchildren. Charlie is preceded in death by his parents, a stepgrandson, four brothers and one sister. Death date: Oct. 26, 2008