Death Notes

FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Last Residence: 28387, Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina, USA. ³

• He appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census on 7 April 1930 in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁵
  

Census (07 April 1930) — 3123 Shannon Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Name; Relation; Gender; Race; Age; Marital Status; Age at First Marriage; Birthplace; Father's Birthplace;
Mother's Birthplace; Occupation/Industry
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Knipping, August H   Head*   M   W   36   M   34   Illinois        Germany    Germany    Clergyman/German United Evangelical
--------  Fern       Wife    F   W   29   M   27   West Virginia   Virginia   Virginia   None
--------  Paul       Son     M   W    9   S        Ohio            Illinois   Ohio       None
   *Owns, home value $7500, owns a radio, does not live on a farm
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Source Citation:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Baltimore, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland;
                  Roll: 867; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 480; Image: 947.0.

• His Social Security Number was 301-03-5679, issued before 1951 in Ohio, USA. ³

• His obituary was published in the page D10 of the Wisconsin State Journal on Sunday, on 20 June 2004 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA.
  
       SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Paul August Knipping, age 83, of Southern Pines, N.C., and formerly of Sheboygan County and Madison, Wis., died Monday, June 14, 2004.
       He was born in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1920, the only child of the Rev. August H. and Virginia May (Cash) Knipping. Paul grew up on the streets of Baltimore and Cincinnati, left home at age 14 to attend Mission House Academy (now Lakeland College) near Sheboygan and graduated from high school there in 1938.
       Soon after he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and when war was declared in 1941 he volunteered for Marine Corps flight training. He graduated from Pensacola and married high school sweetheart ----- Muetzelburg just prior to departure for the South Pacific in 1943.
       Paul served two tours of duty in the Solomon Islands campaign for Bougainville and Rabaul with VMF 221 ("The Wake Avengers") and VMF-214 ("The Swashbucklers," later called the "Black Sheep" squadron while under command of Maj. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington). Lt. Knipping flew more than 70 combat missions in the formidable F4-U Corsair, called the "Ensign Eater" by American flyers and "Whistling Death" by the Japanese. He was injured during a nighttime fighter scramble in 1943, walked away from a crash landing on Munda airstrip early in 1944, returned to California as a flight instructor, and was about to return to the Pacific for his third combat tour when the war ended. He remained in the Marine Corps Reserves for another decade, attaining the rank of captain.
       Following the war he returned to Mission House as a student and instructor, and eventually earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught in the Madison public schools, where he was a great favorite among his students for his "war stories." He later taught for the University of Wisconsin Extension and the University of Kentucky, where he met his second wife, -----.
       They later moved to Farmington, Maine, where he taught at the University, and later still to Lubbock, Texas, where he retired from the faculty of Texas Tech University in 1993. They then moved once again, this time to Southern Pines, N.C., to be near -----'s family.
       Dr. Knipping's early research focused upon parasitology and zoonosis, and he published more than 60 scholarly articles on ticks, fleas, mites, and the diseases that they communicate to humans. Later he became more interested in the human condition itself as a student of Dr. Maxie Maultsby, and became an advocate for rational behavior therapy. Paul and ----- authored additional articles, a book, and instructional materials in an attempt to help others find their way in life.
       He kept up his pilot's license after the war, and enjoyed flying, skin diving, photography, and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
       Paul is survived by his wife, -----, of Southern Pines, N.C., and her daughter ----- ----- of Los Angeles, Calif.; by his former wife, ----- of Madison; two sons, ----- of Kohler, and ----- of Birchwood Lake, Minn.; granddaughter, ----- of Madison; and grandsons, ----- of Phoenix and ----- of Milwaukee. He was preceded in death by -----'s son, "Chan" Chandler of Lexington, Ky.
       He was one of a kind — an action sort of a guy, who once observed that his only regret in life was that he never got to strafe a train. We'll miss you, Pop. Semper Fi.