The Sun - Baltimore, MD April 7, 1973 Cmdr. Pipkin, research scientist, rites today Lancaster, Texas - Funeral services for Cmdr. Alan C. Pipkin, Sr., USN (Ret), a research scientist who served in the Navy for about 23 years, will be held here at 10 a.m. today. Commander Pipkin, who was 61, died Thursday at the Bethesda (Md) Naval Hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Simpsonville, Md, and was associate professor of biology at Cantonsville Community College. Malaria control work He was born in Ovilla, Texas, and received his degree from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1941 he received his Phd. from Tulane University. During World War II, he served in the Navy. For a while he did work in malaria control on Woodlark Island, near New Guinea, in the South Pacific. From 1946 to 1949, he taught at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, where he was head of the bacteriology department in the School of Medicine. Continued research At the outbreak of the Korean conflict, Commander Pipkin was recalled to active service. He was sent again to the Pacific where he did research on filariasis, a blood fluke, in the Caroline Islands. In 1952 he was transferred to the White Oak Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calif., where he did further research in parasitology. In 1954, Commander Pipkin went to Maryland and continued his scientific investigations this time at the Naval Research Institute in Bethesda. He was transferred to Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama in 1959, but he returned to Bethesda in 1964. Among his special projects before his retirement in 1970 was research on Chagas's disease, which is caused by a one-cell parasite. After his retirement from the Navy, Commander Pipkin taught at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md., for two years. Wife is professor He lived on Guiford road, in simpsonville and with his wife, the former Sarah Bedicheck, raised horses as a hobby. She is a professor of zoology at Howard University and was able to do her own research while traveling with her husband. Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons: Alan C. Pipkin, Jr. and Roy B. Pipkin, both of Simpsonville, and George P. Pipkin, of Washington; a brother, Dr. James Lewis Pipkin, of San Antonio, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Helen Moore of Corpus Christi, Texas.