Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 04:58:48 :
Independent Journal
Tuesday, November 8, 1977
Page 4
Rev. Ervin C. Tipton
Marin church designer
Services for Ervin Charles Tipton of San Rafael, a retired Methodist minister who designed two Marin churches, will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in San Rafael.
Rev. Tipton died Friday in a hospital after a short illness. He was 77.
Tipton was born in Norfolk, Neb. He studied architecture and structural engineering at t he University of California at Berkeley before graduating from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1934.
Tipton entered the ministry in 1929 and served in churches in Nebraska and Cape Cod before coming to California in 1939.
He came to San Rafael in 1942, serving as pastor of the First Methodist Church in San Rafael for four years before being appointed to the General Board of the Methodist Church, under whose auspices he designed 34 churches, including one in Japan and one in Puerto Rico, over the next nine years.
During his time in San Rafael, Tipton designed the First United Methodist Church at 9 Ross Valley Drive.
In 1955, Tipton transferred back to the pastorate, where he organized and designed two more churches including the First Methodist Church in Novato. He later served at the Valley of the Moon Methodist Church and the First United Methodist Church in Caruthers, Kern County, before retiring in 1966.
He was a recipient of the 50-year Veteran Scouting Award and was a member and chaplain of the San Francisco chapter of Sons of the American Revolution.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Darlene Sampson Tipton of San Rafael; a son, John Ervin Tipton, and three sisters, Grace Bell of Scottsbluff, Neb., Esther Wilder of Denver and Inez Moore of Encampment, Wyo.
Entombment will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael.
The family prefers memorial contributions to The Rev. Ervin Charles Tipton Memorial Fund in care of the First United Methodist Church in San Rafael.
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