Frances Rice Hipps

ASHEVILLE - FRANCES RICE HIPPS 81, OF 136 LOUISIANA AVE. DIED TUESDAY MARCH 5, 2001 AT MOUNTAIN AREA HOSPICE AFTER AN EXTENDED ILLNESS. A NATIVE OF MADISON COUNTY SHE HAD LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. SHE WAS OF THE BAPTIST FAITH AND WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JAMES AND LALA BRANKS RICE. SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER SON, JAMES WILLIAM HIPPS. SURVIVING ARE HER DAUGHTERS, HAZEL LIPE OF ASHEVILLE, BARBARA HYDER OF LIBERTY, SC. AND ROSE MARIE RICKER OF SURGOINSVILLE, TN; SONS, HERSCHELL AND J.D. HIPPS BOTH OF ASHEVILLE AND DENNIE HIPPS OF TRAVELERS REST, SC.; SISTER, FAYE ELKINS OF ASHEVILLE; 25 GRANDCHILDREN, A NUMEROUS OF GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 P.M. THURSDAY IN THE ANDERS-RICE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH THE REV. MICHAEL SARGENT OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GREEN HILLS CEMETERY. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS 7 TO 9:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME.