
Birth: 31 May 1932
Jay, Delaware County, Oklahoma, USA
Death: 16 April 2023
Chowchilla, Madera County, California
Memorial or Burial Place: Ridge Haven Memorial Gardens
Findagrave Memorial ID: 252563082
Born Minnie Nadine Carr, she was affectionately referred to by those who knew her as Nadine, and by her closest family and friends as Dean.
Her obituary was written by her two surviving siblings, her twin sisters, Viola and Violet.
Nadine Carr Tripp entered into her eternal rest on April 16, 2023, in Chowchilla, Madera County, California, two years after she had a stroke at her home in Oakhurst, California. She was 91 years and 16 days of age.
She was born on March 31, 1932, in Jay, Delaware County, Oklahoma to John Ewing Carr and Nancy Luetta Dragoo. Although her first given name was Minnie, she declared Nadine as her first name when she applied for her Delayed Birth Certificate.
Nadine’s family came to California during the Great Depression of 1939, with a stopover in Maricopa County, Arizona where they lived in a tent camp in the desert. By 1942, they settled in the small farming community of Chowchilla. Nadine married Amos Robert Tripp on September 8, 1948, in Madera. They lived in a modest home that he was remodeling on Humboldt Street before purchasing a home on Orange Avenue. They went their separate ways about 1963. Nadine moved to Oakhurst where she lived until she became a resident of the Palms in Chowchilla.
She was a perfectionist in her home and her hobbies, a detailed seamstress, an award-winning crocheter, and an immaculate housekeeper. She was a devout Christian, and in her retirement years was designated as a Pillar of the Church in her local congregation.
Nadine was preceded in death by her son Robert Allen Tripp (2022); her father, John E. Carr (1953), mother, Nancy L. Dragoo (1985); brothers Elmer (1968), Clyde (1981), William Thomas and Frank Lee Carr (1999); and sisters Annie May (1916), Addie Carr Duncan (2002), and Mary Ann Carr Rice-Erwin (2008).

She is survived by her son C. Douglas Tripp and his wife Cozette, of Mesa, Arizona, four grandchildren, and sisters Viola Carr Wilson-Parsons, of Rocklin, California, and Violet Carr Moore of Livermore, California.
Note from JnK Davis:
Nadine was an excellent writer and devoted much of her time and knowledge to writing and sharing family stories from her unique viewpoint and perspective. She contributed greatly to our Carr family heritage and left a fabulous legacy of stories, documents, and images that will be treasured for generations to come.
Nadine’s Plaque was installed in the Ridge Haven Memorial Gardens on 19 September 2023.
Minnie “Nadine” Carr 1932-2023
All images of M. Nadine Carr Tripp are used with expressed permission from the Estate of Nadine Tripp, 2023.