VERNON L. KIPPING

Vernon Louis Kipping, 73, of the Twin Peaks area of San Francisco, Calif., died Friday, Oct. 21, 1994, at his home.

He was born Oct. 19, 1921, in Cape Girardeau, son of Theodore F. and Augusta Meyer Kipping. He married the former Anna Ruth Uelsmann of Cape Girardeau.

Kipping was a 1940 graduate of Central High School. He attended Southeast Missouri State University and was a photographer for the Sagamore yearbook.

He was an FBI agent in San Francisco. He received national attention on the Patty Hearst case when he transferred still photos of the bank robbery into a movie, which was decisive evidence in the outcome of the trial.

Survivors include his wife; three sons in California, and a sister, Doris Rhoades of Ballwin.