Arkansas Gazette, 22 May 1978 Max Pipkin Max Pipkin aged 78 of North Little Rock, a retired nursing assistant at the North Little Rock Veterans Administration Hospital, died Sunday (18 Oct). Born near Malvern, a son of William Calvin and Sarah Elizabeth (Cloud) Pipkin, he was a member of Gardner Memorial United Methodist Church, Albert Price Masonic Lodge 714 and the Arkansas Consistory. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Merle (Mahan) Pipkin and two brothers, Howard Pipkin and Dallas Pipkin of Chicago. Max was grandson of Stewart Alexander Pipkin, son of Minor, son of Steward Pipkin of Yalobusha County, Mississippi. William Philip Pipkin.