ATLANTA - Leon Louis Pippin, 83, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Atlanta, Ga., where he had lived for the past five years.

He was born in Bunn to Leon Louis Pippin Sr. and Eloise Sasser Pippin. He graduated from Bunn High School in 1947 and attended one year at Mars Hill College, then joined the US Navy for four years.

He worked at the DuPont Dacron plant in Kinston for 33 years, retiring in the spring of 1985. He was one of the founders of N.C. Victims’ Assistance Network (N.C. VAN). In 1999, Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. conferred on Mr. Pippin The Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

Surviving: daughter, Tina Pippin; sister, Claire Nelson of Elizabethtown; brothers, Wayne Pippin of Bunn and Charles Pippin of Raleigh; and one granddaughter.