Henry Ellsworth Hupp 1898-1973

HUPP, MILLER, WEAVER, RICK, OHRTMAN, GRAY, ORIGER, KABELE, ROBERTS, HUBBARD, FAULKNER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/14/2011 at 21:53:47

Henry Hupp Rites Saturday
Henry Ellsworth Hupp, 74, Estherville, died at 3:45 p.m. March 7, 1973, at Holy Family Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church, Estherville, with the Rev. Robert Miller and the Rev. Fred Sawyer officiating. Burial will be made in East Side Cemetery.

Mr. Hupp was born July 5, 1898, to Phillip and Nancy Ann Weaver Hupp in Brown County, Ind., and was educated in Indiana schools. He was married on Aug. 13, 1927, to Hermina Miller in Austin, Minn.

He was self-employed at farming and trucking for several years, then worked three years on the Alkan Highway air base in Alaska. For 23 years before his retirement Mr. Hupp worked for the Iowa Road Building Co. He had been a resident of Estherville since 1933 and was a member of the First Christian Church.

Survivors include his wife; six daughter, Mrs. John (Johanna) Rick, Windom, Minn., Mrs. William (Charlotte) Ohrtman, Estherville, Mrs. D.W. (Bessie) Gray, Waverly, Mrs. John (Marian) Origer, and Mrs. Charles (Alice) Kabele, Spirit Lake; 33 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; one brother, Walter Hupp, Estherville; three sisters, Belle Roberts, Everly, and Blanche Hubbard and Mrs. Gerald (Golda) Faulkner, both of Spencer.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and two sisters.

Friends may call at Reese-Henry Funeral Home, Estherville, today, Friday and until noon Saturday when the body will be taken to the church.

Pallbearers will be his grandsons, John Rick Jr., Charles Rick, Michael Ohrtman, Perry Ohrtman, Donald Origer and Barrett Gray. Honorary pallbearers will be Dennis Rick, Larry Origer, Stuart Gray and Henry Gray. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, March 8,1973)