KUPER, Melvin c1933-2014

KUPER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/14/2014 at 19:36:25

Melvin Kuper, age 81, beloved husband of Vera, passed away peacefully on Saturday August 23, 2014.

Funeral Services were held Friday, August 29, 2014 at Plainfield Congregational (UCC), in Plainfield, Illinois. Interment followed at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois.

Melvin was born in Ackley, Iowa, raised in Osage, Iowa, and late of Romeoville, Illinois, and a former resident of Addison, Illinois. Melvin was a Veteran of the Korean War serving in the US Navy from 1951 to 1955.

He was preceded in death by his parents Jerry and Marian Kuper; brother Vernon Kuper; sister Frances Meinders Severs and grandson Jonathan Piquard.

He is survived by his five children, Renae (Rick) Piquard, Deborah (Tom) Hand, Cynthia (Scott) Sliwinski, Kevin (Juliane Nelson) Kuper and Kent (Martha) Kuper; siblings Gary (Eloise) Kuper, Myron (Sue) Kuper and Beverly Hansen Ball; 10 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

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Source: Mitchell County Press-News website