Madison Grace Pipkin (Madi)

Madi graduated from Deer Creek High School in May of 2014. She attended The University of Oklahoma and The Art Institute of Chicago in pursuit of a degree in studio art. She worked many jobs including summer arts programs for kids, service industry jobs, and free-lance art jobs for friends and family. Madi was most passionate about art and creating. Her mediums used included watercolors, ink, pottery, and any material she could use to form into what she wanted to create. Barbed wire and an elderly woman with her chihuahua were her inspiration for her wire sculpture piece that won the Jurors Choice award her freshman year at OU. It was titled “Bertha Glover”. The selection was made from hundreds of entries in the 101st all-student show at the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art.

Madi was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority while at OU and met friends there who appreciated and enjoyed art much like herself.

Madi’s passions did not end with art.

At age 9, she began her pursuit of a black belt in Taekwondo. She obtained the 1st degree black belt at age 14. She ran cross country and was involved in Student Council in high school. She had an entrepreneurial spirit- always creating mini businesses to make money but mostly to use her creativity that never seemed to end.

Her other passion was travel. She studied abroad in high school for a semester on the south island of New Zealand and was able to visit Australia during that time as well. Her travels did not stop there. She traveled throughout Europe alone at age 19 with a backpack and sketchbooks. She visited her foreign friends she had met while studying abroad including travels to Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and Finland. and Portugal. Madi also traveled to Dominican Republic with NorthChurch on mission trips 3 times and loved her time doing that.

Madi has greatly influenced each of the many friends and family she knew. Similarly, Madi was greatly influenced by many people in her life. Her parents would like to thank the many people that showed her love, friendship, compassion, and guidance during her life. These people include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, coaches, teachers, friends, friends parents, family friends, and those she “met along the way” that we will never know.

She had many friends and touched everyone in a unique way. She was a beautiful soul inside and out with just the right amount of quirkiness. She had her own style and lived her life fully in her brief 25 years.

She will be missed tremendously and forever remembered and loved.

She is preceded in death by her great grandmothers Evelyn, Tina, and Virgilene. Her great grandfather William, her grandmother Patsy Ann Pipkin and her sister Kelsy Ann Pipkin.

Madi is survived by her mother Brenda Pipkin and her father Phil and stepmother, Jenny, along with her brothers Ethan Pipkin and Sam Pipkin.

Her other surviving relatives include grandparents Shirley Bennett and John Baecher, Phil Sr and Kelly Pipkin, aunts and uncles Debbi and Dale McCullock, Jeff and Karen Becker, Pat and Brandi Pipkin, Patricia Pipkin, Penny and Houston Rhoades, and James and Carrie Knoblich. Her cousins include Josh Mccullock, Zack McCullock, and Kaleb McCullock and their spouses Katie, Jenna, and Amy respectively, along with Hope McCullock, Britni and Garrett Boles, Braidan Pipkin, and Lawrence Rhoades, Amanda Rhoades Nicole Howe, and Nick Thomas. The littlest cousins include Kaiden, Brantley, Gavin, Fischer, and Eva.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Madi’s name to NAMI Oklahoma, Positive Tomorrows, Hope Is Alive, or City Care Night Shelter Oklahoma City.