ROBERT S. LIPTON

LIPTON
ROBERT S. (Treb), 69, died in Atlanta, GA on July 17, 2011, following a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Lipton was born in upstate NY. He was an aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where he met his wife of forty-six years, Gail, who was also a student there. They moved to Seattle, WA where Mr. Lipton was employed as a wind tunnel test engineer for the Boeing Co. He transferred to Boeing's Vertol Division near Philadel-phia and worked in the legal department while attending Temple University School of Law at night. He began his career as a Patent attorney first with the Boeing Co. and then as a private practitioner. Mr. Lipton and his family lived in the Philadelphia area for thirty-nine years. He served as the president of the Workman's Circle Home in Media which is now closed. He was also a founding member of the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester. He served on the board of directors and was legal counsel up until the time he moved to Georgia in 2009. Mr. Lipton was an avid private pilot. He spent most of his free time flying "Victor", the Cessna aircraft he and his partner owned.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Jason, and his wife of Atlanta, GA and his daughter, Danna, and her husband also of Atlanta, GA. He is also survived by granddaughters, Talia and Shira Lipton and Quinn Yedvarb and a brother, Greg Lipton, of Seattle, WA. Funeral services will be held at Temple Sholom in Broomall at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Burial at Haym Solomon Memorial Park will follow. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Georgia Chapter, 41 Perimeter Center East, Suite 550, Atlanta, GA 30346 or the Memory Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Attn: Faye Barlis, 3615 Chestnut St., Suite 101, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

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