The San Antonio Express News, Texas - 16 April 1990 Pipkin Was Magician, Giving Hospital Shows James Blackburn Pipkin was an amateur magician who performed as a volunteer at Santa Rosa Children's Hospital and the San Antonio State Chest Hospital. Pipkin, 79, died Friday, 13 Apr 1990, of complications from cancer. Born in Waelder in August 1910, Pipkin moved to San Antonio in 1938. At the time of his death, he was living with his niece, Georgia Haskell in Pasadena. He married Frances Cockrell in 1933. She died in 1989. He was with the 8th Army Air Force during World War II. He left the military in 1945 and went to work for Kelly AFB as a civil servant. At the time of his retirement in 1974, Pipkin was working for Warner Robins AFB near Macon, GA. Pipkin also was a member of Harlandale Presbyterian Church where he sang in the choir. Other survivors include a sister, Elisabeth Zupan of San Antonio and three nieces. Funeral services in Southside Funeral Home Chapel. Burial in Mission Burial Park South. (Note: James Blackstone was son of James Dubard and Mattie Lee Green Pipkin and grandson of Jesse Pipkin.) William Philip Pipkin