Obituaries:  Orville Dupree, Sabine Parish       D-160
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 4, 1974
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Orville Dupree

  Funeral services for Orville "Dick" Dupree were held at 4 p.m.
on Monday, July 1, in the Chapel of the Osborn Funeral Home, with
Dr. James Middleton, pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Shreveport, and Rabbi David Lefkowitz Jr. of the B'nai Zion
Temple officiating. Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery.

  Mr. Dupree, 59, of Shreveport, died at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June
29, at his farm near Coushatta, when a tractor he was driving
overturned. A native of Martin, he was a Shreveport resident for
30 years, and a former member of the Caddo Parish School Board.

  Mr. Dupree was also a member of the Petroleum Club, and the
American Legion, the retired president of the Holicer Gas Co., a
former schoolteacher at Florien and Cotton Valley, and a World
War II veteran.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Marguerite Dover Dupree of
Shreveport; one son, Richard Dupree of Houston, Tex.; one
daughter, Mrs. Sanders B. Cox of Dallas, Tex.; five brothers, W.
B. Dupree of Martin, Theron Dupree of West Monroe, Vernon Dupree
of Baton Rouge, W. D. Dupree of Shreveport, and Dr. J. G. Dupree
of Bunkie; seven sisters, Mrs. George Anderson of Norway, Mich.,
Mrs. Zelma Howell of Martin, Mrs. Roy Johnson of Bunkie, Mrs. Jim
Winner of Houston, and Mrs. E. E. White, Mrs. Norma Bonnevier,
and Mrs. Bertie Mae Keith, all of Shreveport, and one grandchild.

  Pallbearers were J. L. Teer, E. E. White, A. P. Taylor, J. D.
Caruthers, S. Y. Friedman, and I. B. Dupree.