Wayne County, NC - Obituary of Marshall W. Pipkin Sr., 2005

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TEMPLE — Services for retired Master Sgt. Marshall Pipkin Sr., 83, will be 
at 11 a.m. Saturday at Scanio-Harper Funeral Home Chapel in Temple with the 
Rev. Ranjan Cletus officiating. Burial will follow at Bellwood Memorial 
Park in Temple. Pipkin died April 13, 2005, at a Temple nursing home.

He was born Jan. 2, 1922, in Wayne County, N.C., the son of the late Luther 
Daniel and Nettie Anderson Pipkin. 

Pipkin married the former Elsie Marie Hankey Jan. 4, 1946. She preceded him 
in death Sept. 19, 1994.

He had served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from Oct. 10, 1942, through 
Nov. 25, 1952, as an administrative officer.

Pipkin had worked for 33 years at the Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center in Temple.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.

Pipkin had lived in Temple since 1953 and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic 
Church there.

Survivors include a son, Marshall W. Pipkin Jr. of Killeen; and a daughter, 
Theresa B. Ferrell of Killeen.

A rosary will be recited at 5:30 p.m. today at the funeral home, where the 
family will then receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m.

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