A former Granite City resident who died in Iraq was buried Monday following a 10-block-long funeral procession of family and friends in Collinsville. Capt. John E. Tipton, 32, died May 2 of wounds ...

Cancel anytime. Capt. John E. Tipton, 32, of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., died May 2, 2004, in Al Anbar province in Iraq. A 32-year-old former Granite City resident died in Iraq Sunday of wounds ...

In September 2003, he was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On May 2, 2004, an explosion fatally wounded Tipton. The Capt. John E. Tipton Graduate Student Endowed Scholarship ...