The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
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DATE: Thursday, December 15, 1994            TAG: 9412150329
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B13  EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                       LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

MARY M. TIPPETT

Mary Margaret McFadden Tippett, 75, died Dec. 14, 1994.

Mrs. Tippett was a native of Philadelphia and was a resident of the peninsula for 40 years. She retired from Jack Tippett Custom Homes, Inc. as secretary/treasurer after 27 years. She was a member of Warwick Memorial United Methodist Church, where she had been a member of the Bell Choir. She had volunteered at Mary Immaculate Hospital and St. Francis Nursing Center.

Survivors include a daughter, Mary T. ``Joy'' Whitley of Chesapeake; a son, Jay C. Tippett Sr. of Newport News; two sisters, Doris E. Shaw of St. Louis and Margaret Hart of Newport News; and five grandchildren.

A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Umphlett Funeral Home, Newport News, by the Rev. J. Stanley Hargraves. Cremation was at the Hampton Memorial Gardens Crematory. Memorials may be made to St. Francis Nursing Center.

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