Pipkin Family Association

Odey Lee Andrew Pipkin

Arkansas Gazette & Arkansas Democrat, 9 Nov 1982

Odey Lee Andrew Pipkin was born in 1905. He was a long time resident of Beebe, Ark. and a retired employee of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He married Hazel Parks who preceeded him in death in 1981. He had been living at Searcy Nursing Home for the past two years. He died at Searcy General Hospital on 7 Nov 1982 while undergoing surgery for an aneurism.

He was buried next to his wife Hazel and in the same area as his father, Ernest N. Pipkin and his grandfather, Abraham Isaac Pipkin.

He is survived by two sons: Odey J. "Bud" Pipkin of Peoria, Ill., and Billy Gene Pipkin of Bald Knob, Ark.; two brothers; Arthur Lee of Austin, TX and Jesse of McRae, Ark.; four grandsons and a number of great grandchildren.

His grandson, David W. Pipkin is a member of the Pipkin Family Association.

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