Laraine Enes Tippetts, 86, died Saturday morning, Oct. 13, 2007, at the New Horizons Care Center in Lovell.


Laraine Enes was born near Breckenridge, Texas, in an oilfield camp called Parks Camp, on Jan. 31, 1921, to James William and Carrie Hall Enes. She had one brother and two sisters. Her father’s work always kept the family on the move. Laraine attended schools in Merkel, Texas, Driggs, Idaho, Cody, Newcastle, Osage and Lovell. She graduated from Lovell High School in 1939.


Laraine married her high school sweetheart, Wilford E. (Buff) Tippetts, in Billings, on Jan. 10, 1942. Buff and Laraine lived east of Lovell, bringing up their three children in an environment of family farming and ranching.


She was a member of the Lovell Woman’s Club and the local Homemakers Club, and she was a Girl Scout and 4-H leader. She also drove school bus for the Lovell School District for 13 years.


Laraine is survived by her three children, Wilford James Tippetts (Marilyn), Nancy Robison (Dale) and Susan Williams (Rich); six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; her sister-in-law Juanita Enes and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brother Glen Enes, two sisters, Mildred Ostler and Margaret Clar, and one grandson, Blade Jason Tippetts.


Funeral services will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m. at the LDS Church in Lovell. Burial will be in the Lovell Cemetery with Haskell Funeral Home officiating.