Clippinger services

Mr. Clippinger died Monday, Nov. 17, 2003, at Village West in Ottawa.

He was born March 9, 1919, in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Bishop Arthur and Ellen (Mills) Clippinger. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941 from Otterbein College and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1944 from Bonebrake Theological Seminary. He received his doctorate in 1950 from Yale and studied as a Ford Fellow in clinical psychology at Harvard from 1951 to 1953.

Mr. Clippinger taught psychology at Otterbein College from 1947 to 1951. He served as pastor of First Church Congregational in Lynn, Mass., from 1951 to 1953, for First EUB Church of Hamilton, Ohio from 1953 to 1960 and at First Church Congregational in Swampscott, Mass from 1960 to 1968. He became professor of psychology and head of the counseling service at Baker University in 1968. He retired in 1986 as Benjamin A. Gessner professor of psychology, chairman of the psychology department and emeritus professor. He was interim minister at area churches, including St. Johns United Church of Christ near Baldwin, Community Congregational United Church of Christ in Carbondale and Hillsdale Presbyterian Church.

He was a practicing clinical psychologist and a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He served on boards for Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ and Plymouth Congregational Church, where he was a member. He also served on the board of education in Swampscott from 1964 to 1968.

He married Mary Garver in 1944 in Strasburg, Ohio. She survives, of Baldwin.

Family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials to Alzheimer’s and Other Related Disorders Assn., sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.