Lindsey Ivery Lipscomb

Lindsey Ivey Lipscomb, born on July 17, 1921 in Hempstead, Texas passed away on October 2, 2014. He had lived in Houston, but relocated to Dallas to be near his children after the death of his wife of 42 years, Dolores Denson Lipscomb.

He was a decorated POW and veteran of WWII. Lieutenant Lipscomb was both navigator and bombardier in the 34th Bombardment Group in the Eighth Army Air Corp. His B-17 bomber was shot down on Nov 23, 1944, Thanksgiving Day, on his thirty-second mission over Germany. He and four other survivors in his crew were taken prisoner and held at Stalag Luft I at Barth on the Baltic Sea until the end of the war.

Following the war, he graduated with honors from Texas A&M, Class of 1949, and enjoyed a long career as a civil and petroleum engineer working with Exxon, Triton Engineering, and Enron. His expertise in offshore oil and gas production led to assignments all over the world including Texas, California, Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Norway, India, England, Italy and Brazil.

Lindsey Lipscomb is survived by his children, Stephen William Lipscomb of Longmont, Colorado, Joseph Blake and Helena Mira Lipscomb of Fort Worth, Texas, and Ivy Lynn and Robert Michael Opdyke of Dallas, Texas, his seven grandchildren, and his ten great grandchildren.

Services will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 10:30 am at McWilliams Funeral Home, 706 Bremond St., Hempstead, Texas 77445, immediately followed by internment in the Hempstead City Cemetery.

Instead of flowers, the family requests that remembrances be sent In Memory of Lindsey I. Lipscomb, Class of ’49, to The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, 505 George Bush Dr., College Station, TX 77840. Online gifts can be made at www.Aggienetwork.com .