William J. Tipton, 64, a retired Air Force colonel, died Sept. 11, 1984 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after complications of abdominal surgery.
Col. Tipton was born in Bandana, N.C., and attended North Carolina State University at Raleigh for three years before joining the Army Air Forces as a pilot shortly before World War II. He returned to his studies after the war and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1952.
He served in Europe during the war and later served in Okinawa, Alaska and Ohio, and then as an Air Force liaison with Boeing Aircraft. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1963 and was a resident of Falls Church.
Col. Tipton retired from the Air Force in 1970 as chief of the government operations branch, procurement operations division. He was a salesman with the Sleepy Hollow Realty Corp. in Falls Church from 1970 until his second retirement in 1976.
Col. Tipton was a member of the Army Navy Country Club.
He was survived by his wife, Barbara, of Falls Church; a daughter, Deborah T. Lyon of Culpeper, Va.; two brothers, Ralph E., of Erwin, Tenn., and Joseph E., of Westerville, Ohio, and two sisters, Billie Tipton and Betty Peterson, both of Erwin.
[from The Washington Post (DC) - September 15, 1984. Additional family genealogical information available from "Blackledges in America," 2002.]
Col. Tipton was born in Bandana, N.C., and attended North Carolina State University at Raleigh for three years before joining the Army Air Forces as a pilot shortly before World War II. He returned to his studies after the war and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1952.
He served in Europe during the war and later served in Okinawa, Alaska and Ohio, and then as an Air Force liaison with Boeing Aircraft. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1963 and was a resident of Falls Church.
Col. Tipton retired from the Air Force in 1970 as chief of the government operations branch, procurement operations division. He was a salesman with the Sleepy Hollow Realty Corp. in Falls Church from 1970 until his second retirement in 1976.
Col. Tipton was a member of the Army Navy Country Club.
He was survived by his wife, Barbara, of Falls Church; a daughter, Deborah T. Lyon of Culpeper, Va.; two brothers, Ralph E., of Erwin, Tenn., and Joseph E., of Westerville, Ohio, and two sisters, Billie Tipton and Betty Peterson, both of Erwin.
[from The Washington Post (DC) - September 15, 1984. Additional family genealogical information available from "Blackledges in America," 2002.]
William J. Tipton, 64, a retired Air Force colonel, died Sept. 11, 1984 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after complications of abdominal surgery.
Col. Tipton was born in Bandana, N.C., and attended North Carolina State University at Raleigh for three years before joining the Army Air Forces as a pilot shortly before World War II. He returned to his studies after the war and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1952.
He served in Europe during the war and later served in Okinawa, Alaska and Ohio, and then as an Air Force liaison with Boeing Aircraft. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1963 and was a resident of Falls Church.
Col. Tipton retired from the Air Force in 1970 as chief of the government operations branch, procurement operations division. He was a salesman with the Sleepy Hollow Realty Corp. in Falls Church from 1970 until his second retirement in 1976.
Col. Tipton was a member of the Army Navy Country Club.
He was survived by his wife, Barbara, of Falls Church; a daughter, Deborah T. Lyon of Culpeper, Va.; two brothers, Ralph E., of Erwin, Tenn., and Joseph E., of Westerville, Ohio, and two sisters, Billie Tipton and Betty Peterson, both of Erwin.
[from The Washington Post (DC) - September 15, 1984. Additional family genealogical information available from "Blackledges in America," 2002.]
Col. Tipton was born in Bandana, N.C., and attended North Carolina State University at Raleigh for three years before joining the Army Air Forces as a pilot shortly before World War II. He returned to his studies after the war and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1952.
He served in Europe during the war and later served in Okinawa, Alaska and Ohio, and then as an Air Force liaison with Boeing Aircraft. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1963 and was a resident of Falls Church.
Col. Tipton retired from the Air Force in 1970 as chief of the government operations branch, procurement operations division. He was a salesman with the Sleepy Hollow Realty Corp. in Falls Church from 1970 until his second retirement in 1976.
Col. Tipton was a member of the Army Navy Country Club.
He was survived by his wife, Barbara, of Falls Church; a daughter, Deborah T. Lyon of Culpeper, Va.; two brothers, Ralph E., of Erwin, Tenn., and Joseph E., of Westerville, Ohio, and two sisters, Billie Tipton and Betty Peterson, both of Erwin.
[from The Washington Post (DC) - September 15, 1984. Additional family genealogical information available from "Blackledges in America," 2002.]
