Clinton MO - The gentle spirit of Mary Ellen Lippincott took flight from mortal scenes on Saturday, October 9, 1982. Mary Ellen Ragland, daughter of Thomas and Alice Virginia Beazley Ragland, was born January 23, 1882 in Clinton, Mo. at 306 East Jefferson Street. As a young girl, she lived with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Woolfolk, and as a companion to their only daughter, Mary, who was a little her senior. While living in Clinton as a young girl, she was a member of the Baptist Church, where she taught a Sunday School class as she grew older. Her entire schooling was at Baird College on South Second Street, where she was an active, blythe and spirited student. The Woolfolk family moved to Kansas City the year she would have graduated, so she did not finish at Baird, but was perhaps its oldest student in point of years in attendance, as well as longevity. In Kansas City, she met Benjamin Harris Lippincott and in 1906 they were united in marriage at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Woolfolk, at the southwest corner of Armour Boulevard and Troost Avenue. They made their first home in Chicago, where one daughter, Jean, was born to their union. In 1914, they returned to Kansas City, where Mrs. Lippincott lived until 1967 when she came to make her home with her daughter and son-in-law in Clinton. Mrs. Lippincott had been a patient at Chastain's Nursing Home for the past five years, where she readily adjusted to its quiet life and where her daughter, Mrs. Henry F. Poague, visited her frequently. Friends who often saw her found her content, happy, smiling and adaptable, radiating good cheer, for she was thoroughly kind, never thinking ill of anyone. She was a most modest person, loved fun and laughter, and her gratitude for the smallest attention shown her brought out the best in others. Her fond and generous disposition elicited kindness from all who knew her, and her going is a void. Funeral services were conducted at the Consalus Chapel of Clinton on Monday, October 11. Burial was in Englewood Cem