DORIS ALBERTA STRICKLAND WARDRIP

ALBERTA WARDRIP, 91, OF LAMONI, IOWA, PASSED AWAY THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008, AT THE MOUNT AYR HEALTH CARE CENTER IN MOUNT AYR, IOWA. SERVICES WILL BE IN THE SPRING IN LAMONI.

DORIS ALBERTA WARDRIP WAS BORN APRIL 17, 1916 IN HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI TO FANNIE ALICE (BOWEN) STRICKLAND AND WILLIAM STRICKLAND. SHE ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT HIGH POINT SCHOOL IN HARRISON COUNTY AND GRADUATED FROM EAGLEVILLE, MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOL. ON MAY 11, 1936, DORIS WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO GLENN HENRY WARDRIP. THEY LIVED ALL OF THEIR MARRIED LIFE IN THE LAMONI AREA. ALBERTA WAS A HOMEMAKERL GLENN DIED IN NOVEMBER OF 1998.

CHURCH WAS A BIG PART OF ALBERTA’S LIFE AND SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE RESTORATION BRANCH IN DECATUR CITY, IOWA.

ALBERTA IS SURVIVED BY HER TWO SONS, DONALD (WIFE MYRNA) WARDRIP OF OAK GROVE, MISSOURI AND DONOVAN WARDRIP OF BRAWLEY, CALIFORNIA; ONE GRANDDAUTHER, BRENDA KAY (HUSBAND ED) JACK OF BLUE SPRINGS, MO.; TWO GREAT GRANDSONS, AUSTIN AND CHRISTOPHER JACK OF BLUE SPRINGS, MISSOURI; TWO GREAT STEP-GRANDSONS, SCOTT AND SHAUN JACK OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AND HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, W.J. BOWEN OF MOUNT AYR.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS; HER HUSBAND, GLENN HENRY WARDRIP; TWO BROTHERS, JIMMY AND TAFT STRICKLAND; ONE SISTER, GLADYS BRADLEY; A GRANDDAUGHTER, KIMBERLY KAYE WARDRIP AND ONE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, MARCIA STODELLE WARDRIP.