Lampkin Rites Today

Funeral services for Robert Hinkle Lampkin,
prominent Starkville citizen, will be held today
at 2 p.m. from the Welch Funeral Home with
the Rev. Perry Biddle officiating.  Interment
will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Mr. Lampkin died Sunday night at Felix Long
Memorial Hospital following an apparent
heart attack.  He was 69.

Mr. Lampkin was a member of Oktibbeha
County's most distinguished prioeer families
and lived in Starkville all his life.

An alumnus of Mississippi State University,
Mr. Lampkin was a retired professor of Economics
in the Department of Business Administration at
MSU and served as an indstructor in the Department
of Busines Education there.

Mr. Lampkin was a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi
National Business Fraternity while teaching at the
university.

A merchant in Starkville for 20 years, Mr. Lampkin was
active in civic affairs, serving on the local school board
and the city's Board of Aldermen.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church
and served on the church's official board.  Mr. Lampkin
was a member of Abert Masonic Lodge, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and a former member of the
Starkville Rotary Club.  Mr. Lampkin leaves his wife,
Mrs. Louise Ray Lampkin, a son, Robert Evans Lampkin
of Jackso; a daughter, Mrs. Guy Jackson, Jr., of Vicksburg;
a sister, Mrs. A. B. Butts of Washington, D.C.; and six
grandchildren.

Donated by Michael Lampkin.