Lipp, Thomas Steven
Army Sergeant

Sgt. Thomas S. Lipp in 1970 accespts citations from the director of Caslte Point Veteran’s Hospital. (Poughkeepsie Journal)

Thomas Steven Lipp, age 38, from Glenside, Pennsylvania, Montgomery county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, March 1, 1986
Death details: In 1970, Thomas was fighting in Cambodia when his spinal cord was severed and he lost a kidney and spleen in an ambush. He spent the rest of his life a paraplegic and the last three years in a Veterans hospital before his kidney failed.

Cemetery: HIllside, Roslyn, Pennsylvania

Source: National Archives., Associated Press (1970), findagrave.com