ZEBULON - Ernestine “Tina” Pippin Hignutt, 85, formerly of Robinwood, died Monday, July 20, 2009 at Guardian Care. Funeral service was conducted Wednesday, July 22, at Strickland Funeral Home in Wendell. Burial followed in the Pippin family cemetery.

She was born in Franklin County, daughter of the late Bryant and Ruth Medlin Pippin, and the widow of Raymond Hignutt.

Surviving: children, Ginger Griffin (Tom), Joyce Paoli and Ray Hignutt (Mary); sisters, Janet Taylor and Ruth Page; brother, Sammy Pippin; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

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