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- The following is per Mary Jane PIPES Frank, Feb 2005: Obit from the Galveston Daily News-June 18, 1970. Alta Loma - Robert Loyd (blind Bill) Pipes, 44, of Alta Loma, died in John Hospital at 9:40 a.m. Thursday. Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Saturday at Malloy & Son Funeral Home with the Rev. W.R. Sims officiating. Burial will be in Grace Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call after 10 a.m. Friday. He was born Dec. 31, 1925, in Lufkin, Texas. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Pipes of Alta Loma; two daughters, Mrs. Janice Moore of Alta Loma, Mrs. Mary Jane Frank of LaMarque; one sister, Mrs. Katie Kantowski of Galveston, one brother, Raymond L. Pipes of Galveston. Pallbearers will be John Williams, Ernest Williams, James Reisig, David Baimbridge, Terry Baimbridge and Woodrow Ainsworth WIFE IS CHARGED AS SHOTS FELL HUSBAND A 25 year old Galveston man suffering from gunshot wounds was in serious condition at John Sealy hospital Thursday night and police, charging his wife with assault to murder, quoted her as admitting ???? double-barreled shotgun. Detective Chief John S. Fox declared Mrs. Robert L. Pipes had made a written statement saying the shooting occurred as her estranged husband attempted to enter the 1510 40th street home of her mother, with whom she and her 6 year old daughter had been staying. Diagnosis had not been completed at the hospital late Thursday night, but it was said that Pipes may lose a finger from his right hand and sight from his left eye. Several pellets struck him in the face. Assault Charge Mrs. Pipes was charged with assault to murder at police headquarters and released under $500 bond by Justice of the Peace Orra M. Richmond. Judge Richmond said that Pipes had been bound over to the grand jury under $1000 bond on May 22 on charge of threat to kill his wife and child. Based on investigation and statements allegedly made to him Thursday afternoon following the shooting, this is the way Chief Fox reconstructed the incident: Mrs. Mary Jane Pipes and Mary Jane Pipes, Jr., 6, were living with Pipes at 1023 63rd street on May 20 when the mother took the daughter and went to live at her mother's home. Phone Call About 9:30 am Thursday Pipes called his wife and said that he wanted to come to the residence to see the child. The youngster was inside the house with the screen door latched when her father came at 11 a.m. and stood near the edge of the front porch to talk with her. The little girl asked Pipes to get a kitten for her. He left and returned in about 30 minutes. The father said that he could not find a kitten and tried to persuade the child to call her mother to the door. Wife "Afraid" "When I saw him start for the gate I picked up the shotgun because I was afraid he had a gun." Mrs. Pipes told Chief Fox. "I saw a bulge in his belt at the front. When he passed the window near where I was standing. I saw him pull up his shirt and it looked like he reached for a gun. When he got to the door he snatched it and I shot once, then he pulled the door open and I shot again. He fell off the porch." Fox said that when he and officers Widrodt, Adams and O'Donohoe reached the scene they found Pipes on the ground, lying on his face and bleeding from the face and right hand. A .38 caliber revolver was found lying under the man's body. It was fully loaded, the chief said. A 16-gauge double barrel shotgun was found in the house. This article is from the Galveston Daily News June 1951 Cause of Death: Cardiac arrest 1951, Blinded after being shot by Mary Jane Pipes in self defense. Medical Information: Hypertension and cardiac
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