Marilyn Pippen Payne

We received word recently of the passing in June 2014 of Marilyn Pippen Payne, wife of Dr. Jerry Payne and mother of Melissa McCollum, a previous president of the Payne/Foster Reunion.  Marilyn Pippen met Jerry Payne while they both attended Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and had been married 56 years.  Marilyn and Jerry Payne had five children, two sons, Maldon and Ronnie, and three daughters, Donnis, Melissa, and Jeannie, and they resided in Marshall, TX.

Dr. Jerry Payne and his children are descendants of Braxton Payne, one of the seven children of Dr. I.B. Payne and Sarah Foster Kidd Payne.  Braxton Payne was a businessman and community leader in the Dodson area in the first half of the twentieth century.