GREENVILLE--Funeral services for William "Bill" Gayle Chipman Jr. , 75, of Greenville, a retired insurance agent, will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Greenville. He died of heart failure Nov 2, 2003, at his home. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Greenville, under the direction of Mortimer Funeral Home, Greenville.
Bill Chipman died Nov 2, 2003, at 11:30 p.m. after a long and painful battle with multiple illeness. He was born March 23, 1928, and lived all his life in Greenville except for his military service in 1946 through 1947, when he went with Adm. Byrd's final expedition to the South Pole. He was a co-founder of the Mississippi Numismatic Society, the Mississippi Archeology Society, the Winterville Indian Mound Museum, the Greenville Chess Club, the annual Greenville Arts & Craft Fair and the Nathan Greene chapter of Mississippi Sons of the American Revolution.
After serving Greenville as a police officer, he was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for over a quarter of a century. He was an avid genealogist and traveled widely across the United States and the world. He was a charter member of Covenant Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his mother, Arrhetta Ray Chipman; his wife of 55 years, Mary Gibbs Chipman; two children, Will Chipman (Cindy) of Greenville and Sarah Ellen Parish (Keith) of Ethel, Miss.; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Chipman Kibler (Daniel) of Jacksonville, Fla., and Sarah Emily, Hannah Gayle, Isaac Parish and Judah Parish, all of Miss.; as well as his dear cousin, Linda M. Nabors of Greenville; and a host of other dear friends.
He will always be missed and will always be remembered.
Visitation will be today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mortimer Funeral Home.
The Rev. Bob Clark will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, MS, Tues. Nov 4, 2003.
Bill Chipman died Nov 2, 2003, at 11:30 p.m. after a long and painful battle with multiple illeness. He was born March 23, 1928, and lived all his life in Greenville except for his military service in 1946 through 1947, when he went with Adm. Byrd's final expedition to the South Pole. He was a co-founder of the Mississippi Numismatic Society, the Mississippi Archeology Society, the Winterville Indian Mound Museum, the Greenville Chess Club, the annual Greenville Arts & Craft Fair and the Nathan Greene chapter of Mississippi Sons of the American Revolution.
After serving Greenville as a police officer, he was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for over a quarter of a century. He was an avid genealogist and traveled widely across the United States and the world. He was a charter member of Covenant Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his mother, Arrhetta Ray Chipman; his wife of 55 years, Mary Gibbs Chipman; two children, Will Chipman (Cindy) of Greenville and Sarah Ellen Parish (Keith) of Ethel, Miss.; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Chipman Kibler (Daniel) of Jacksonville, Fla., and Sarah Emily, Hannah Gayle, Isaac Parish and Judah Parish, all of Miss.; as well as his dear cousin, Linda M. Nabors of Greenville; and a host of other dear friends.
He will always be missed and will always be remembered.
Visitation will be today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mortimer Funeral Home.
The Rev. Bob Clark will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, MS, Tues. Nov 4, 2003.
GREENVILLE--Funeral services for William "Bill" Gayle Chipman Jr. , 75, of Greenville, a retired insurance agent, will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Greenville. He died of heart failure Nov 2, 2003, at his home. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Greenville, under the direction of Mortimer Funeral Home, Greenville.
Bill Chipman died Nov 2, 2003, at 11:30 p.m. after a long and painful battle with multiple illeness. He was born March 23, 1928, and lived all his life in Greenville except for his military service in 1946 through 1947, when he went with Adm. Byrd's final expedition to the South Pole. He was a co-founder of the Mississippi Numismatic Society, the Mississippi Archeology Society, the Winterville Indian Mound Museum, the Greenville Chess Club, the annual Greenville Arts & Craft Fair and the Nathan Greene chapter of Mississippi Sons of the American Revolution.
After serving Greenville as a police officer, he was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for over a quarter of a century. He was an avid genealogist and traveled widely across the United States and the world. He was a charter member of Covenant Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his mother, Arrhetta Ray Chipman; his wife of 55 years, Mary Gibbs Chipman; two children, Will Chipman (Cindy) of Greenville and Sarah Ellen Parish (Keith) of Ethel, Miss.; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Chipman Kibler (Daniel) of Jacksonville, Fla., and Sarah Emily, Hannah Gayle, Isaac Parish and Judah Parish, all of Miss.; as well as his dear cousin, Linda M. Nabors of Greenville; and a host of other dear friends.
He will always be missed and will always be remembered.
Visitation will be today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mortimer Funeral Home.
The Rev. Bob Clark will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, MS, Tues. Nov 4, 2003.
Bill Chipman died Nov 2, 2003, at 11:30 p.m. after a long and painful battle with multiple illeness. He was born March 23, 1928, and lived all his life in Greenville except for his military service in 1946 through 1947, when he went with Adm. Byrd's final expedition to the South Pole. He was a co-founder of the Mississippi Numismatic Society, the Mississippi Archeology Society, the Winterville Indian Mound Museum, the Greenville Chess Club, the annual Greenville Arts & Craft Fair and the Nathan Greene chapter of Mississippi Sons of the American Revolution.
After serving Greenville as a police officer, he was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for over a quarter of a century. He was an avid genealogist and traveled widely across the United States and the world. He was a charter member of Covenant Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his mother, Arrhetta Ray Chipman; his wife of 55 years, Mary Gibbs Chipman; two children, Will Chipman (Cindy) of Greenville and Sarah Ellen Parish (Keith) of Ethel, Miss.; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Chipman Kibler (Daniel) of Jacksonville, Fla., and Sarah Emily, Hannah Gayle, Isaac Parish and Judah Parish, all of Miss.; as well as his dear cousin, Linda M. Nabors of Greenville; and a host of other dear friends.
He will always be missed and will always be remembered.
Visitation will be today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mortimer Funeral Home.
The Rev. Bob Clark will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, MS, Tues. Nov 4, 2003.
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