Funeral services for Dewey Leon Hipp, Jr., 76, of Wills Point, are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2016, at Allan Fuller Funeral Home Chapel in Wills Point. Interment will be at Small Cemetery in Edgewood.

He passed away suddenly Tuesday afternoon, February 16, 2016 at his residence in Wills Point.

Leon was born July 21, 1939, in Dallas, Texas, the son of Dewey Leon Hipp, Sr. and Lela Mae Malone Hipp. He was raised in Dallas, but had lived in Wills Point most of his life. On March 10, 1961, he married Judith Lorene Garner near Dallas. Leon was formerly employed as a carpet layer for Foster Brothers in Dallas, retiring in 2004. He enjoyed fishing and watching the Dallas Cowboys. Leon was of the Baptist faith.

Preceded in death by his parents, Dewey Leon Hipp, Sr. and Lela Mae Hipp Blount; sister, Barbara Boss; two brothers, Bobby Gene Hipp and Jackie Don Hipp; grandson, Landon Hipp; his in-laws, Wilborn Garner, Erma Garner Sloan and Herbert Sloan and his brother-in-law, Sidney Garner.

Leon is survived by his wife, Judy Hipp, of Wills Point; three sons, Ronald Dean Hipp, of Dallas, Donald Hipp, of Amarillo and Rocky Hipp, of Mississippi; three daughters, Cheryl Mothersell, of Campbell, Sonya Hipp, of Wills Point and Shanna Ramsey & husband, Jud, of Wills Point; brother, Larry Hipp & wife, Josie Mae, of Mobile, Alabama; sister, Pat Boss, of Houston; two brothers-in-law, Glen Garner, of Wills Point and Bobby Garner, of Wills Point; two sisters-in-law, Wanda White & husband, Forrest, of Wills Point and Franceen Parker & husband, James, of Terrell; twenty-two grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.