Bessie (Montgomery) GRUPE

MONTGOMERY, GRUPE, STEWART, MCCORMICK, STEBER, STUTEVILLE, WALL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2008 at 14:48:51

1 September 1888 --- 18 December 1984

Lamar County Echo, Texas
December 27, 1984

Mrs. O. H. (Bessie) Grupe, 3825 Lamar Ave, died at her home at 1:35 p.m. Tue., Dec. 18. Services held Fri., Dec. 21, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Clayton Forthman of Hugo, OK., officiating. Mrs. Grupe was born Sept. 1, 1888, in Popejoy, Iowa, a daughter of Allan Lee Montgomery and Cora Belle Stewart Montgomery. She attended Iowa schools and taught school and worked in the post office at Popejoy. She married O. H. Grupe on May 18, 1902. He died in April 1964. She was a member of the Episcopal church in Iowa and a member of the Needlecraft Club. She and her husband moved to Paris in 1917, where he was associated with Speas Vinegar. Surviving are a daughter, Florence Grupe Mccormick of Prairie Village, KA.; four grandchildren, George C. Wall Jr. of Tyler, Carolyn Wall Stuteville of Malakoff, Carol Ann Grupe Steber of Aachen, Germany and Dr. Harold E. Grupe Jr. of Jacksonville, MS.; 12 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Leona Grupe Wall and two sons, Dr. Harold E. Grupe and Dr. Donald M. Grupe.