Rick Hipwell

Rick Hipwell, 55, of Grand View, passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 13, 2013, with his family by his side, following a long illness.

Services will be conducted on Friday, Sept. 20, at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand View. You may meet with the family at 10 a.m. in the Relief Society Room. Burial will be held at the Riverside Cemetery in Grand View, with a dinner to follow at the church for family and friends. Services will be under the direction of Rost Funeral Chapel, McMurtrey Chapel of Mountain Home.

Ricky Lee Hipwell was born on June 2, 1958, in Boise, to Billy and Gloria (Clark) Hipwell of Grand View, joining an older sister, Sherry, at home on the family farm. His younger sister, Kathy, later completed the family, and side by side, they learned to work hard on the family farm with their parents.

Rick attended Grand View Elementary and Rimrock High School, where he graduated in 1976.

From an early age, Rick had an amazing artistic talent for drawing, sketching, and tooling leather. He was offered a college scholarship for art, but chose not to accept it. Instead, Rick wanted to continue to farm with his parents, where he also went on to become a skilled mechanic and welder.

On Jan. 28, 1978, Rick married his lifelong sweetheart, Marie Morrison, at the Grand View LDS Church.

Together, they continued to farm with Rick's parents, raising sugar beets, hay, grain, and corn. Over the years, they were blessed with the best crop ever--their five children: RaeLynn (1981); Andrea (1982); Richard (1985); Ryan (1989), and Reid (1991).

Rick's artistic talents were put to use frequently as he helped his children with their school art projects, posters and the best Valentine's Day boxes ever. Some of the best memories that his children will have to treasure are the countless times they spent irrigating and riding in the tractors and trucks with their Dad.

Rick loved to take his young family boating at C.J. Strike Dam, where he and Marie learned to be excellent water skiers. He also loved to take his family camping and fishing at Castle Creek and Silver City.

As his children were growing up and the older ones began to leave home, Rick cut back on his farming activities, bought a truck and hauled fertilizer over the road for 10 years.

In 2005, Rick and Marie purchased a mobile home park in Grand View and moved their family from the farm.

As their sons got old enough to work with him full time, Rick began to run his trucks and loaders locally, hauling manure from Simplot Livestock. Up until the time his health began to fail, Rick worked every day with his three grown sons.

Rick was a devoted husband and father, as well as a warm and loving grandpa and he will be greatly missed at all the many birthday parties, barbeques and 4th of July celebrations at the lake that are yet to come.

Rick's children would like to express their deepest thanks and appreciation to their mother, Marie, for giving such excellent, loving care to their father throughout his life, and especially in the difficult last days as he fought his courageous battle with cancer. Their love and devotion to each other will be an example to all.

Rick is survived by: his parents, Billy and Gloria Hipwell; his wife, Marie Hipwell; five children, RaeLynn (Jens) Schkade, Andrea (Mark) Owens, Richard Hipwell, Ryan (Stephanie) Hipwell and Reid Hipwell; 11 grandchildren, Jacque, Travis, Dillon, Kevin, Hailee, Emma, Lydia, Alora and Noela, all of Grand View, and Odin and Tyler of Bruneau. He is also survived by his father-in-law, Jim Morrison, Sr., of Grand View; his mother-in-law, Dolly Gottsch, of Bruneau; two sisters, Sherry Johnson of Grand View and Kathy (Steve) Vernholm of Emmett; as well as several aunts, uncles, cousins and many nieces and nephews.

Rick was preceded in death by his grandparents, William and Elsie Hipwell and Lloyd and Dottie McKee.