Palestine High School Alumni Association

08 / 03 / 1937  –  02 / 12 / 2001

Services for Dan P. “Pip” Woolverton, 63, of Kurtistown Hawaii will be at 2 P.M. Saturday at the Tennessee Colony Church with the Rev. Bud Magee and Ben Gary Woolverton officiating.

Visitation and refreshments will follow at the Tennessee Colony Community Center.

A memorial service also will be held by his friends and neighbors in Hawaii. His ashes will be scattered over his property where he lived for 20 years.

Mr. Woolverton died Monday at his home after a brief illness.

He was born August 3, 1937, in Palestine to Claude P. and Lucile (Hudson) Woolverton.

Mr. Woolverton was reared in Tennessee Colony and was a 1955 graduate of Palestine High School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Sam Houston State College in 1960 and served in the U.S. Army for two years. He had been employed by LTV Corp. in Dallas and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

In 1968, he was transferred from Washington D.C. to Honolulu by Brown Engineering. He moved to the Big Island of Hawaii in 1980. For several years he had been an active member and treasurer of Hawaiian Acres Community Association and its local volunteer fire department. He was a member of the Tennessee Colony Christian Church.

Mr. Woolverton was preceded in death by his father in 1980.

He is survived by his mother, Lucile Woolverton of Tennessee Colony; sister, Bonnie Woolverton of Tennessee Colony; and numerous other relatives.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 02-15-2001