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Submitted: 5/30/21 • Approved: 6/2/21 • Last Updated: 6/5/21 • R422947-G0-S3
Oklahoma
PPRIVATE 158 Aeronautical Squadron
World War I
October 7, 1895-October 28, 1951
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral Rites Pend For Local Resident
John M. Crupper, 56, 104 First street, Phillips, died at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the Phillips medical center. He had been a resident of Phillips for the past 10 years and was maintenance superintendent at Phillips Pantex plant.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge and the Methodist church and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Eva, two sons, Bill Crupper who is in the Navy and Jerry Crupper, Whiteface, Tex., a stepson Max Sherman, and a stepdaughter, Billie Sherman, both of the home; two brothers, C.A. Crupper, Tulsa, Okla.; C.A. Crupper, Richmond, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. S.W. Van Beek, Tulso [sic], Okla.; Mrs. P. Nikelson [sic], Natoma, Kan.; Mrs. Peggie Jones, Augusta, Kan.; and three grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending at the Simpson Funeral home.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Vol. 25-No. 285, Borger, Texas, Monday, October 29, 1951, Page 1)
Contributed on 5/30/21
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