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Called By God
4. If your compensation was by salary, give last rate per week.
$25.00 When? Now. Where? Upper Columbia.
5. What is the highest rate of salary that you have received in this
work? $32.00 When? Up to 3 years ago. Where? Washington &
Upper Columbia.
16. Do you own a home? No, my husband has 40 acres but no
improvements to speak of.
17. State value of property. I have nothing.
18. Do you have an independent income, pension, etc.? No.
20. Miscellaneous Information or Suggestions. Mr. Atteberry is 62. Has a
car and 40 acres of land but no improvements to speak of. He loves
the truth and is willing to spend his time helping me and selling books.
In answer to the question, “To what extent are you still able to labor in the message?”
she wrote, “I think I am quite capable yet.”
Following is part of the section of the sustentation form filled out by the conference:
1. When did your Committee or Board conclude that applicant had
become incapacitated for active labor? December 9, 1930.
There is no indication that the “applicant” had become “incapacitated for active
labor” other than by marrying a husband who the brethren apparently thought should
be able to support her. As in the case of Mrs. Williams (chapter 1), remuneration had to
do with marital status and was not necessarily payment for the work done. Mrs. SypeAtteberry, who had been a salaried licensed minister since 1902, was retired at the age
of 61, still working and apparently in good health, although the couple did not have any
dependable income apart from Mrs. Sype-Atteberry’s work. Ten dollars a week was
voted for her sustentation income. (Taken from Sustentation Fund Application, Mrs. Minnie
Sype-Atteberry, December 13, 1930. General Conference Archives.)
Minnie Sype-Atteberry did not stop doing the Lord’s work. Rich memories of her
work persist from this period of her ministry in the Northwest, before and after the official retirement. (Taken from a letter to the writer by Mrs. Hilda West, So. Cle Elum,
Washington, 1984. See appendix A, 2.8.) Continuing to be licensed as a minister, Mrs.
Sype-Atteberry worked in Washington, Florida, and the Bahamas. (Letter from Minita
Sype-Brown, Key Largo, Florida, to the writer, October 29, 1984. See appendix A, 2.9.)
Mr. Atteberry died, and later Minnie married again. One of her descendants remarked
that her marriages later in life were entered into primarily to help the person married,
and there is probably a strong element of truth in this. Her last ministerial licenses were
issued in the name of Mrs. Minnie S. Crippin.
This pioneer minister and resourceful homemaker served her Lord as evangelist,
pastor, departmental secretary, and publication circulation manager through 28 years of
formal ministry preceded by years of active lay ministry and followed by years of active

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