On July 10, 1938 Elizabeth married Art Sipprell who also lived in Lake Forest Park.
They lived in Bozeman, Montana for the first few years of their marriage.
On March 27, 1947 Art and Liz adopted Elizabeth Ann, nicknamed "Libby".
Art and Liz moved to Warm Beach in Stanwood until Libby was two,
then they moved to Arlington, Washington.
On October 3, 1953 Art and Liz had Barbara Lee Sipprell .
In 1954, the Sipprell Family moved to a new home in Everett, Washington.
Liz worked as a Legal Secretary for Williams and Novack, Attorneys in Everett.
Occasionally, Liz worked for Frederick & Nelson during the Christmas holiday season.
Here is a picture of Elizabeth (Liz) with Pappy (Albert) and nephew Ed Larsen. Three generations working at Frederick & Nelson Department Store in Seattle.
Elizabeth, Norm, Josephine, Daisy
Hobbies:
Read Books
All kinds of books…
From Norman Vincent Peale to Monthly Book Club Selections
Artistic/Creative
Painted- paintings, watercolor, ceramics, china
Christmas ornaments –
Cake Decorating
Interior Decorating- Mom and Dad built a new home in 1954 in Everett.
Volunteered
Assistant Leader Camp Fire Girls
Professional Legal Secretaries Organization Started
Memorial Baptist Community Church
Deaconess
Musical
Played piano –some favorites: Moonlight Sonata
Loved musicals – "Sound of Music", "Music Man", "My Fair Lady"
Modeling
Hairstyles - her hair- strikingly beautiful
Travel
Loved Canada – Vancouver, Victoria, BC
Alberta
U.S. – Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California
Collections
Antiques
Toby Mugs
Colonial Maple Furniture
Teacher/Educator
Taught at Everett Community College –conducted classes at ECC to assist secretaries in achieving a greater degree of skill and ability in the performance of their respective jobs.
Legal Secretarial Courses
Conferences
Belonged to the National Association of Legal Secretaries and
National Secretaries Association
Memories of Elizabeth F. Sipprell:
As a kid she was a fast runner. She was kind of a tom-boy and played with her younger brother Norm and Clint Lundy in Lake Forest Park (Seattle). She loved bicycling, painting and piano. She graduated from high school during the Depression which meant she couldn’t go on to college. She did take post graduate classes and went on to business school training.
Her friends remember her as a beautiful, kind and creative person inside and out.
June and Elizabeth
June Browning loved getting together with Liz and Art.
The four of them went on a double date.
She remembers one time when they ran out of gas.
June and Bill Browning and Art and Liz stayed out all night.
The unbelievable had actually happened!
No one would believe them when they returned the next day.
Innocent, but wiser.
Her daughters remember so many things.
Libby -
I remember always wanting to be like my mother.
She seemed so smart and always had answers for everything.
I remember when my mother would come home from work
And want to take a nice warm relaxing bath to unwind.
Ha! Who would barge into the quiet solitude, but Barb and Libby.
We always wanted to share our thoughts with our mother.
I don’t think Liz (our mom) ever got much time alone.
If we weren’t bugging her in the bathroom after work,
We would call her at work 259-4141
I can still remember the number!
She could solve our most pressing problems.
I remember mom driving me to Roosevelt School in the 2nd Grade.
The brakes on the car went out just as we were starting down a hill.
Mom quickly turned into the nearest driveway and saved us all.
I remember one Halloween we had all the Camp Fire Girls over to our house.
Mom with her bright orange red hair chose to dress as an Asian. What I remember most was that mom seemed to have time to help out, when other mothers were too busy.
I remember Mom volunteering with dad to chaperone a dance at the
Space Needle. I was so embarrassed. I insisted that they stay far far away from me. I tried to pretend they weren’t there.
I remember mom modeling at Hair Styling Shows… What a beautiful woman!
We were sure proud of her. She always seemed to look like a million.
Yet we never had much money. She was very clever and a clever shopper at sales. She could always seem to put things together quite well.
Academically mom was quite smart. She grew up during the Depression, so never got to attend college. She went to a business school. She learned on the job. She took classes and she attended conferences to learn to be a professional legal secretary. Many of her peers would seek her advice.
I remember always wanting mom to look over my school assignments- especially writing assignments. She was a big support to myself and my sister.
She started a group for Legal Secretaries locally. She took classes at the UW and taught legal secretarial classes at Everett Community College. She seemed energized by working towards her goal and passing her exams for professional Legal Secretaries training . She passed a rigorous 2-day exam at the UW. She was very willing help others attain their PLS Certification.
Barb and I remember when our mother became ill right at the prime of her life.
She got polimyacitis in November and died the following year in February, 1968. At that time they had no cure. She took cortisone, but it didn’t arrest the disease that gradually weakened her body. My father and grandmother helped take care of her. Mom’s death was a devastating loss for our whole family. During the last months of her life she created many beautiful Christmas tree ornaments.
A scholarship was established in her memory by the Ttereve Chapter of Legal Secretaries. At the time of this writing the scholarship is still being given to students. The Liz Sipprell Scholarship!
