RIchard Shoop 1944-1965

SHOOP, STARETS, DAVIDS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 10/9/2021 at 09:56:49

12 August 1965 - Monticello Express

OXFORD JCT. - Funeral services for Richard Shoop, 21, former Oxford Jct. resident who was killed Thursday morning near El Cajon, Calif., in an auto accident, were held in California.

He was born in Maquoketa on Feb. 22, 1944, the son of Fred and Alice Davids Shoop. He attended the Oxford Jct. schools and served in the United States Navy, receiving his discharge in February 1965. He worked in Clinton for a short time and then returned to California. He was not married.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Alice Shoop of El Cajon; his father, Fred of Ely, Nevada; one sister, Mrs. John (Sandra) Starets of El Cajon, his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Shoop of Maquoketa and a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Davids of Miles.