Gladys Elizabeth (McMenus) Rippee Gladys Elizabeth (McMenus) Rippee, born July 23, 1916, in Conway, Missouri, to Joseph and Christabell McMenus, died August 15, 2005, after a brave struggle with cancer. Gladys grew up in the Ozark mountains of Southern Missouri, where she was born. She met and married George William Rippee there, in 1936. They moved to Bend Oregon, in 1939, where they lived for two years. With the outbreak of WWll, Gladys moved back to Missouri, and George went to Seattle to help with the war effort. Gladys came to Seattle, in 1943, and worked at Boeing as a riveter until the end of WWll. The Rippee family started Pacific Multiforms Company, a business forms manufacturing company, in 1953, and Gladys worked there for almost 20 years. In her later life, she started quilting again, a skill she learned in Missouri. She made beautiful quilts for all of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The quilts are all finely hand stitched, and incredibly beautiful. She also enjoyed camping, fishing, travel, gardening, shopping. She and George had four children. Her husband, George; two daughters, Mary, and her husband, Fred, Bender, and Christa Pogue, are deceased. Her two sons, Howard, and wife, Maiga, and George, and wife, Carolyn, live in the Seattle area. She leaves ten grandchildren, and 19 great grandchil-dren. Gladys was a wonderful person, friend, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, and great-grandmother, and we all mourn her passing. Published in the Daily Herald on 8/19/2005.