Carolyn Pipkin Schmidt, 87, passed away in Nesbit, Mississippi, on December 4, 2025. She was born in the Bethlehem Community on April 18, 1938, to Jimmy Lee Pipkin and Sidney Gay Ash Pipkin. Mrs Schmidt was an inspector with General Electric Corporation.
The widow of Albert Thomas, Mrs Schmidt leaves two sons, Keith Cooper (Elizabeth) of Decaturville, Tennessee, and Philip Cooper of Nesbit. She is also survived by a brother, Jimmy Allen Pipkin of Corinth, Mississippi, eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Teresa Renee Burkett, and a grandson, Jeremy Keith Cooper, her parents and her husband.
Services for Mrs Schmidt will be held in the Chapel of the Holly Springs Funeral Home on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 1:00 pm. A visitation for family and friends will begin at 11:00 and continue until service time. Burial will be at the Blue Mountain Cemetery. |