Mrs. Jimmie Sue Pipkin of Harrisburg departed this life Thursday, November 7, 2019, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro, at the age of 87.
She was born November 14, 1931 in Harrisburg, the daughter of the late Clay Mardis and Effie Condra Mardis.
Jimmie Sue was a 1949 graduate of Harrisburg High School. She married Fred Pipkin on April 23, 1949 and they enjoyed 60 years together before his death in 2010. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Harrisburg and was a homemaker. She was involved with the Garden Club, the Progressive Club and the Mother\u0027s Club, to name a few. In addition to her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by one brother, Tom Mardis of Rogers, AR.
She is survived by two daughters, Jan Hagler of Jonesboro, and Marta Davis of Benton, AR, four grandchildren, Ashley Spencer and her husband Clay of Jonesboro, Lee Reddmann and his wife Meredith of Little Rock, Dax Reddmann and wife Brynn of Harrisburg, and Lauren Clow and her husband Degen of Benton, AR, and seven great grandchildren.
A graveside funeral service is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Saturday at the Harrisburg Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Gregg-Weston Funeral Home of Harrisburg. Friends may visit at the funeral home Saturday, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Serving as pallbearers will be Clay Spencer, Lee Reddmann, Dax Reddmann, Degen Clow and Greg Reddmann.