Donald Mack Phipps (Duck), age 74, passed away Thursday, August 16, 2012 at the Grace Healthcare of Abingdon, after a long illness. Mr. Phipps was preceded in death by his parents, Eurastus and Matilda Phipps; two sisters, Ethel Mae Hill and Mazie Lee Fellin; five brothers, Carson Phipps, Evans Phipps, Ernest Phipps, Roger Phipps, and Harold Cline Phipps. Surviving Mr. Phipps are five brothers, J.C. Phipps and wife Ruby, Kerry Phipps and wife Pun Yon, all of Clintwood, Bobby Darrell Phipps and wife, Marylyn, Kenneth Carroll Phipps and wife Lucy, all of Port Orchard, Washington, and George Phipps of Abingdon, Virginia; five sisters, Easter Meade of Clintwood, Lois Rose and husband Kilby of Mansfield, Ohio, Gaye McGinnis and Faye McAlexandria of Port Orchard, Washington, and Kaye Stanley of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Sunday, August 19th, at 1:00 pm in the Clintwood Funeral Home Chapel with Franklin Hall and Randolph Kendrick officiating. Burial will follow at Phipps Memorial Cemetery in Clintwood. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Family will receive friends Saturday, August 18th, 6:00 pm at the funeral home, where a song service will begin at 7:00 pm.