Marilou Lipp Dennis

Published 12:05 am Sunday, March 30, 2014

NATCHEZ — Services for Marilou Lipp Dennis, 77, of Natchez, who died, Friday, March 28, 2014, at Promise Rehabilitation Hospital in Vidalia, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Jefferson Street United Methodist Church with the Rev. John Kramer officiating.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the church.

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Burial will follow at 2 p.m. in New Winnsboro Cemetery in Winnsboro under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Mrs. Dennis was born Oct. 11, 1936, in Monroe, the daughter of Marion Trousdale Lipp and Frances Louise Robertson Lipp.

Her childhood years were spent living in Oak Grove and Winnsboro.

She was a graduate of the Manship School of Journalism at Louisiana State University and a member of Kappa Delta sorority.

The Lipp family published the Franklin Sun newspaper in Winnsboro, and Mrs. Dennis began her newspaper career there when she helped her family publish the Centennial Edition of the Sun in 1956 while she was still a LSU journalism student.  Later as publisher of the Franklin Sun, she was awarded the Freedom of Information Act Award by the Louisiana Press Association.

She lived in Winnsboro while rearing her family and was a Girl Scouts leader, Sunday school teacher before making her home in Natchez.

Mrs. Dennis was a lifelong avid bridge player and a member of the Natchez Newcomers and Panola Woods doubles bridge club. Mrs. Dennis was also a realtor in Natchez. She was a past active member of the Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce and an instructor at the Louisiana Business College. She served on numerous boards and associations, both in Winnsboro and Natchez.

She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and friend of many and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. She also belonged to the “ya-ya sisterhood,” a very special group that has been together since their high school days.

Survivors include her husband, Walter B. Dennis of Natchez; six children, Fran Morris of Dallas, Leah Flores and husband, Joseph, of Tulsa, Okla., John Womble and wife, Jennifer, of Metairie, La., Beverly Cleverdon and husband John of Seattle; Joe Dennis and wife, Lynn, and Robbin Dennis, all of Mobile, Ala.; and one sister, Joanna Lipp Diboll of Pass Christian.

Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association online at lung.org or by mail to 55 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 150, Chicago, IL, 60601.

Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.