The Glacier reporter., 1955-08-19
Death Claims
William Kipp,
Early Pioneer

ton Tdpluly ulSdPPCdAhi6 PiOA-
GERS, were held at the Church of
the Little Flower Tuesday morn
ing at 10, with the Rev. A. M. D.
Gillen officiating.
Burial was in the Browning
Catholic cemetery.
Active pallbearers were J. L.
Sherburne, Jess Monroe, Charles
Jeffrey, Phil LaBreche, Sr., Hen
nv Magee and Charles Bird.
Honorary pallbearers were
Charlie Powell, George Croft, Le-
vi Bird, Jack Galbreath, Juniper
Old Person, Jim Whitecalf, Bill
Show, Charlie Devereaux, DR.. c.
H. Minette, William Goss, Ionic
Goss, Joseph w. Brown, William
Brown, Frank P. Sherburne,
Charlie Conway, Tom Aubrey,
Joe Mcknight, Joe Mckay, Joe
Ironpipe and Harry Horn.
The deceased's death occurred
at the Memorial hospital in Cut
Bank last Thursday morning at
7:45 following an automobile
crash on Highway No. 2 the pre-
vious Tuesday night between 8
and 9, near Blackfoot.
Brought to the local hospital
a short time later, he was given
emergency treatment and several
hours later removed to the Me-
mortal hospital.
Suffring fractures of the left
arm and crushed chest above
the left lobe of the lungs, his
vitality rapidly waned, despite
the robustness of his health pri-
or to the tragedy.
The deceased was born at Fort
Benton August Is, 1875.
He was one of three children
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Fitzpatrick, the other two being
the late Mrs. Maggie Croft and
the late Matt Lytle.
At the age of two the deceas-
eds mother passed away, he and
his sister being reared by their
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Kipp, then and for a number of
years following living on a ranch
east of Blackfoot. In later years
it came to be known as the Gift
ford Brown ranch, of which
Brown is the present owner.
Matt, brother of Bill and Mag
gle, following their mothers
death, was adopted by Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Lytle, and was rear
ed by them as to become one of
the Blackfeet reservations fin
est citizens. His death occurred
in 1913.
In the keeping of their aunt
and uncle, who availed them ev-
cry possible opportunity at hand,
Bill and Maggie were reared to
become upright young people.
The deceased's early schooling
was at st. Peters Mission of the
Catholic church. Later he attend
ed for time the University of
Gonzaga in Spokane. OF studious
bent, he continued with his edu-
cational quest at home through
correspondence schools.
His marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Wren at the Holy Family Mis-
sion occurred on April 9, 1898.
The young couple lived with
their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs, Joe Kipp, for a year. They,
after that, under so-called squat
ters right" acquired acreage,
which for SIS continuous years has
been the Kipp ranch home, To-
Gated four miles east of Black
foot.
As young man, he with Levi
BIRD and Charles Powell, who
LiVed to pay devotion to him as
honorary pallbearers at Tues
days last sad rites, rode the
range together as employees of
Apps uncle and Powell's faith
eF, who were several of the sub
NantIal cattle operators. That
was at the turn of the century
when what is now the Blackfeet
reservation was mostly a SEEM
ing endless expanse of wild hay.
Up to that period the land al
Iottee had not come into the
picture.
Besides developing the ranch
nome over the years, the deceas-
ea played a valuabl part in In
aian affairs. In his time he had
served on the Tribal Council. I'm
uer the later group as provided
through passage of the Wheeler
howard Act, he served many
years as Tribal field man, an
assisnment which enabled Tribal
councils to keep in touch with
various districts of the reserva-
ton.
In his passing, the deceased
nrlngs sadness to the hearts of
ieeions of friends. His character
was Of the pattern of those who
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