Phipps, Beth Marie

Description

Beth M. Phipps, 4. She was in her family car when it was washed away on Highway 79 by being hit by a wall of water. Her dad went for a wrecker and tried to pull the car out, but the wrecker started to go into a ditch. He tried to stay with the car before it was taken away. She perished with her two sisters. She was survived by her parents. Buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Brookings, South Dakota.

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LONELLE, BETH, CARLA JOE PHIPPS.jpg

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Citation

“Phipps, Beth Marie,” Flood of 1972, accessed April 26, 2024, https://1972flood.omeka.net/items/show/422.