... I wanted you to know that we lost another member of our class. I work part-time at Peninsula Funeral Home in Newport News and was sad to see the name of Sammy Lipes on the schedule when I went to work this afternoon. I was in elementary school, Woodrow Wilson, with Sammy and all through N.N.H.S. with him. Everyone liked him. He and Mary Ann Milne wrote our class song together.

The arrangements for Sammy are as follows: A Memorial Service is scheduled for Friday, November 13 at 10:00 a.m. at the funeral home with the burial at Greenlawn Cemetery, following the service. Sammy lived in New York for many years. It has been many years since he attended a reunion and I recall that at the last one, he had really developed a N.Y. accent. Sammy was one of the nicest guys I know...

Take care, my friend.

Fred Mays (’60)

Sam attended Newport News High School and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now known as Virginia Tech), then served in the United States Army, specifically in the Army Security Agency, of which he was especially proud. He spent the next 39 years employed by General Electric/Lockheed Martin until he retired in 2007.

He is survived by his loving wife, Christine A. Lipes; his two sons, Brian (Michelle) Lipes, of Cicero, NY and Mark (Annalisa) Lipes, of Santa Maria, CA; three stepdaughters, Amy Conigliaro, of Royse City, TX, Jana Conigliaro, of New Market, MD and Karrie King, of Rochester, NY; brothers-n-law, Raymond Jones and John Hall; and eleven loving grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his two sisters, Mildred Jones and Janice Hall; and brother, Bobby Lipes.