Extracted from The Aiken Standard (Aiken, SC)
Saturday, December 28, 1996

Luanne Sanders Gripkey

Luanne Sanders Gripkey died Thursday, December 26, 1996.

Mrs. Gripkey, 56, resided in Columbia.

A native of Dallas, Texas, Mrs. Gripkey was a daughter of the late Harold and Maxine Hawthorne Sanders. She was a member of the Guardian Ad Litem program, a sponsor of 12 foster children, a medical technologist, and a supervisor at Dorn V.A. Hospital.

Surviving are her husband, Col. Edward M. Gripkey, U.S. Army (ret); three sons, Robert Edward Owens III and Mary Gripkey, both of Aiken, and Michael Gripkey, Severen, Md.; two daughters, Elizabeth Christina Owens, Columbia, and Anne Handy, Swansea; a sister, Linda Gonzalez, Columbia; and four grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Baptist Hospital Breast Cancer Center, or Guardian Ad Litem program, Columbia.

Dunbar Funeral Home, Columbia, is in charge of the arrangements.