Phipps, Carla Jo

Carla J. Phipps, 5. She was in her family car with her two sisters when it was hit by a wall of water on Highway 79 and was swept away. 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.