Goldsboro News-Argus - January 23, 2003

SAMUEL PIPKIN

MOUNT OLIVE -- Samuel Howard Pipkin, 93, of the Mount Olive Retirement 
Village, died Wednesday in Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro.

Son of the late Howard Moses and Susan Rose Pipkin, he was the husband 
of the late Hazel Grice Pipkin. He was a retired farm equipment salesperson 
with Carolina Tractor Company and was a long time member of the Bear Marsh 
Missionary Baptist Church. He and his late wife made their home on Luby 
Byrd Road, Mount Olive, for many many years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Friday at Tyndall Funeral Home Chapel 
with the Rev. Gerald Garris and the Rev. Michael Whitesides officiating. 
Interment will be in the Calypso Cemetery. The family will receive friends 
at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

He is survived by two daughters, Janet Pipkin of Enfield and Gayle Pipkin 
of Winton; a son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Lois Pipkin of Hillsborough; 
and two grandchildren, Erin Pipkin and Sam Pipkin.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to Bear Marsh Church, 1649 
Beautancus Rd., Mount Olive, or the Beautancus Community Bldg., 238 Emmett 
Davis Lane, Mount Olive.

Arrangements by Tyndall Funeral Home Inc.

Wayne County, NC

[Note, Cousin Samuel was my mother's double first cousin, one with the Pipkin
surname and one with the Rose surname. Samuel was a long time member of 
the Pipkin Family Association and provided information of the line of 
Joseph 'of the will' to Philip Pipkin for some of the newsletters.
Guy Potts]