Monday, April 24, 2017

We are in search of Don Ipson, who served an LDS Mission to the British Isles 85 plus years ago.

Elder Donald K. Ipson served an LDS Mission to the British Isles many years ago, and we have come in to possession of his Book of Mormon. Although at 107, he may not be around, but we would like to get it to his family. In going through our historical boxes, we located this Book and while thumbing through the pages, we found his missionary business card. The inside cover shows the name of a "Sister", which may have been a person Elder Ipson left it with. We found a Don Ipson in Nephi, Utah, but he said the only missions he has been on is a tour of duty in Vietnam and as a baseball umpire for thirty years, both of which must have been much worse than having people in Wales slam the door in your face as a missionary! He did give insight, saying that early Mormon pioneers named "Ipson" often came from Norway, and the majority settled in Panguitch, Utah, and the 1920 US Census seems to support that theory. If anybody knows the family of this man, we would like to send these "sticks" to them.



2 comments:

  1. Did you ever get a response to this request. I've recently been asked by someone distantly related to Donald K. Ipson to check where he served his mission. His release as a missionary - and president of the Welsh District - is printed in the Millennial Star of March 23 1933.

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  2. Sorry I
    am late to respond Jill. I was forced to get a new browser and find in difficult to do any type of entries on the blog, but I didn't get any response on the Donald Ispon matter.

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