COLUMBUS, NC – Adele Catherine Hey Kipp, 92, formerly of Cincinnati, OH and Hartwell, GA died Tuesday, July 24 in Hospice House of the Carolina Foothills, Landrum, SC.

Married to the late Arthur H. Kipp, Jr. who died in 1997, she was the daughter of Walter and Adele Wirth Hey, born in Cincinnati, OH. She graduated in 1941 from Miami University, Oxford, OH with a major in accounting. Mrs. Kipp worked in various accounting departments and retired from the University of Cincinnati in 1984. She knew her husband Arthur Kipp since the third grade and they married June 1, 1944 while he served in the U.S. Army for almost 4 ½ years.

Surviving is one daughter, Catherine Wright of Carthage, NC and her husband Claude Wright; a grandson, Michael Nixon and his wife Virginia, great grandsons, John and Will Nixon of Indian Trail, NC.

A graveside service will be held in Biscoe, NC.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Dr., Columbus, NC 28722.