Cupples, Billie G. 1933-1990

CUPPLES, DEETER, UMBARGER, NELSON, NORTHCUTT, MUNGER, GROSSMEN, STOCKMASTER, CRABTREE, OSBORN, POOLE

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Date: 7/14/2006 at 16:30:45

Billie G. Cupples

Billie Gene Cupples, 56, of 2118 N. 4th Ave. E., a longtime resident of Newton, died Saturday morning, Jan. 20, at his home of cancer.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

Dr. Douglas Oelke, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association will be accepted.

Survivors are his wife, Joan I.; four sons, Michael Gene, Mark Alan, Patrick Wallace and Paul Wayne, all of Newton; a daughter, Gena Marie (Mrs. Todd) Deeter of Newton; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Cupples of Newton; and six grandchildren.

Also surviving are a brother, Allen Cupples, Jr., of Newton; and six sisters, Pearl (Mrs. Don) Umbarger, Myrtle (Mrs. Gordon) Nelson, Linda Kay Northcutt and Sue (Mrs. Dave) Munger, all of Newton; Lucille (Mrs. Bobbie) Grossmen of Deerfield, Ill., and Ruth Ann (Mrs. Bob) Stockmaster of Pittsford, N.Y.

He was preceded in death by a sister, Shirley (Mrs. Bill) Crabtree.

Mr. Cupples, a truck driver for Bisom Truck Line, was an Army veteran.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church and Moose Lodge.

The son of Allen and Myrtle Osborn Cupples, he was born April 17, 1933 in Roe, Ark.

He was married to Joan Irene Poole May 11, 1957 at the Open Bible Church in Des Moines.

~ Newton Daily News, Newton, Jasper, Iowa, January 20, 1990