Obituary of William Pipkin

MATADOR (Special) - Services for William N. Pipkin, 88, 
of Matador will be at 2 pm Saturday in First United
Methodist Church with the Rev. Eddie Marcum, pastor of
Fritch's First United Methodist Church, and the Rev. 
Mark Gibbins-Rickman, pastor at Tahoka's First United
Methodist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in East Mound Cemetery under the direction
of Mynatt Funeral Home.

He died at 5 pm Thursday in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital
after an illness.

He was born in Motley County. He was an insurance agent.
He married Opal Estes on Feb. 21, 1931, in Matador. He 
was a Mason, and a member of the Lions Club, Eastern Star
and Roaring Springs Golf Club. He was a past member of
the Matador City Council. He was a Methodist.

Survivors include his wife, two sons, Mitchell Neal of
Lubbock and William Gerald of Matador; a daughter, Patricia
Ann Alexander of Freeport; two brothers, Cecil of Lubbock
and Leslie of Lamesa; eight grandchildrfen; and three
great grandchildren.

Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Friday Morning, January 30, 
1987.