Alice May Tripp, age 89, a former resident of Ft. Scott, Kansas, and more recently of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, passed away Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center in Cottonwood Falls. She was born October 29, 1933, in Deerfield, Missouri, the daughter of George L. Crosby, Sr. and Beulah Parker Crosby. Alice attended Ft. Scott schools and graduated from the Ft. Scott High School with the Class of 1951. She worked for the Western Insurance Company for four years. She then went on to become a licensed cosmetologist in 1956.
Alice was an entrepreneur, and in 1958,she opened her own shop in Ft. Scott, which she operated for forty-three years. Alice had many regular clients who were also close friends. She was a member of the Olive Chapter #13 Order of the Eastern Star. In 1980, Alice married Ray Tripp. He preceded her in death on May 21, 2014. Alice was also preceded in death by her parents.
She is survived by a brother, George L. Crosby, Jr. (Alice Fay) and her sister, Rosa Marie Bolinger (Jim); five nephews, two nieces. Also surviving are four step-daughters, Rhonda McAlister (Ted) of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Sandra Buntain (Mike) of Springfield, Missouri, Marsha Heiser (Jerry) of Prescott, Kansas and Laura McDysan (Lee) of Berryton, Kansas and a host of other friends and family members.
Pastor Mike Bright will conduct funeral services at 11:00 A.M. Friday, May 26th at the Cheney
Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the Pittsburg Garden of Memories Cemetery. Memorials are
suggested to the Cherry Grove Baptist Church and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Ft. Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook atcheneywitt.com.
