When Ralph E Piper was born in 1951, his father, Ralph Herbert Piper, was 28 and his mother, Mary E Risher, was 23. He died in 1970, at the age of 19, and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Mansville, Cook Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States.
English (mainly southern): occupational name for a player on the pipes, Middle English pipere, sometimes a paid town musician.
English: sometimes a variant of Peppard .
English: perhaps occasionally an occupational name from late Middle English piper ‘repairer or layer of pipes; plumber’.
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