Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima, WA - 18 Aug 1994

Geneva S. Pipkin, 86, a longtime Yakima Valley resident, died
Tuesday morning August 16, 1994 at Christian Rest Home in
Lynden, WA.

Geneva was born to the late Ruben & Rosie Parker Stewart at
kosciusko, MI on October 11, 1907. She receiver her early
education in Mississippi before moving to Tennessee in late
1930s. She married George S. Pipkin on June 21, 1940 at 
Tutwiler, MI. The couple then settled in Toone, TN before 
moving west and settling at Wapato, WA in 1949. They later
moved back to Tennessee in 1968 and then returned to Yakima
Valley in 1982. Mr. Pipkin died in 1984 and Geneva then moved
to Ferndale, WA where she has lived since.

She was a member of the Catholic Church and enjoyed needle
point, quilting, flower gardening and fishing.

Survivors include two sons, Jim Pipkin of Ferndale, Philip
Pipkin of Moses Lake; two daughters, Mrs. John "Tommie" Kelly
of Bellevue and Mrs. Ed "Georgia" Dungan of Thomasville, AL;
two brothers, Ruben Stewart of Moses Lake and Alvia Stewart
of Jackson, MI; a sister, Hattie Phipps of Moses Lake; 15
grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. She was preceeded
in death by a son, Alvia who died in 1984.

Funeral Services...at the Reservation Community Memorial Park 
west of Wapato. Merritt Funeral Home of Wapato in charge.

[This may be George Pipkin, born c1897 in Hardeman Co, TN, son
of Albert Pipkin, grson of Stephen L., gt-gr-son of Jesse
Pipkin. William Philip Pipkin]