Edward H. Sipe ’48

Ed died Feb. 28, 2015, in Easton, Md. He was 88.

He grew up in Pittsburgh, attended Shady Side Academy, and joined the Army Air Corps in 1944. At Princeton, Ed majored in chemical engineering and graduated in 1949. Then he earned a degree in industrial management at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon).

For 20 years Ed worked at Main, Hurdman & Co., which later merged into KPMG. For another 10 years he was on the staff of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, specializing in health-care finance. Ed’s varied specialties in business and in a number of volunteer organizations included accounting, inventory management, and financial-management consulting. (He passed a CPA exam without having had any actual auditing experience.)

Ed was an active churchman in the Pittsburgh area and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in retirement. For 30 years he was a volunteer fireman in the Borough of Fox Chapel, a Pittsburgh suburb.

His first wife, Gwendolyn, died in 1992. Their two sons predeceased them, as did Ed’s sister, Susan Nolan. Ed is survived by their daughter, Gwendolyn Hilger, and two Hilger grandchildren. He also is survived by his second wife, Nancy; her three daughters; and two grandchildren.