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by: Charles Young

Dorothy Stenberg Phipps -- family history and photos

Dorothy Phipps was born March 5, 1906 in College View, Nebraska. She married Oliver Phipps in Lincoln, Nebraska. Most of their 12 children were born in Colorado. About a third of the Stenberg descendants that I know about are descended from Dorothy Stenberg Phipps. In 1955 the Phipps family moved from Crestone, Colorado to a primitive farm in Northwest Arkansas. Some of the family lived there for more than a decade.
    4-Dorothy May STENBERG (1906-1985) Parents
      m.(1929) Oliver Edward PHIPPS Jr (1904-1967)
    Dorothy 1956
    Dorothy
    5-Harold PHIPPS (1929-1929)
    5-Helen Marie PHIPPS (1931-1996)
    5-Charles Edward PHIPPS (1932- )
    5-Fredrick "Fred" Weston PHIPPS (1933- )
    5-Warren Franklin PHIPPS (1935- )
    5-Gerald Alfred PHIPPS (1936- )
    5-Laverne "Vern" Alvin PHIPPS (1937- )
    5-Noble "Lee" Leroy PHIPPS (1940- )
    5-Gloria Ilene PHIPPS (1941- )
    5-Kendal Eugene PHIPPS (1942-1965)
    5-Lilly Gay PHIPPS (1945- )
    5-Willie Ray PHIPPS (1945-1945)
    5-Valerie Faith PHIPPS (1948-1987)

Dorothy with her mother  
Dorothy Phipps and her mother Ida Stenberg about 1957
I have fond memories of spending a week or 2 at the farm in the summers when I was young. As the Phipps children grew up, they left the farm, and eventually Oliver and Dorothy also left. Then a few years after everyone had left, 2 of the boys came back to the farm for a time. Most of the farm is still intact although the house and cabins are long gone. The farm is owned by a trust administered by the Phipps family.

It is mostly Dorothy's children, grandchildren, and etc. who get together about once a year for a reunion. These reunions have been held in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Other Stenberg descendants are welcome. Dorothy's cousin, Mina Young, and her descendants often attend. Dorothy's grandson, Channon Phipps, publishes a family newsletter.


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