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 Joseph Patrick Pipp Jr.
September 18, 2005
Joseph Patrick Pipp Jr., 83, of 22 Foote Ave. died Sunday at home after a brief illness.
Born in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 11, 1921, son of Joseph P. Pipp Sr. and Lorena Colvin Pipp, he attended schools there and earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute in 1943.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers and survived a D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy.
After his discharge, Mr. Pipp moved to Pittsfield and was employed by GE in the power transformer department until his retirement in 1984.
He was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church, where he served as a eucharistic minister and as director of the Adult Funeral Services.
He was also a member of the GE Quarter Century and Pensioners' clubs and enjoyed reading, gardening, woodworking and walking daily.
His wife, the former Priscilla Ann Murray, whom he married Sept. 16, 1950, died Nov. 2, 1999.
He leaves three sons, Michael P. Pipp of Duxbury, Kevin J. Pipp of Meadville, Pa., and Timothy J. Pipp of Easthampton; a daughter, Holly A. Donelson of Colorado Springs, Colo., and eight grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Joseph P. Pipp Jr., 83, who died Sept. 18, 2005, will be Friday at 10:15 at DEVANNY-CONDRON FUNERAL HOME, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 11 at Sacred Heart Church celebrated by the Rev. James K. Joyce, pastor.
Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours will be Thursday from 4 to 8 at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, if friends desire, memorial donations may be made to Sacred Heart Church in care of the funeral home. He was a loving husband, father, friend and neighbor you could count on.
He had a strong sense of right and wrong, enormous willpower and, throughout his life, always put the welfare of others before his own.
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