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From: "Lois & Del Hupfer" From the Akron Beacon dated May 23, 1978: HUPFER, Albert. Albert (Al) Hupfer, 92, of 374 Rankin St., died May 20 at Akron City Hospital. He was born in Easthampton, Mass., and had lived in Akron for 60 years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, a 50-year member of Henry Perkins Lodge, past president of Summit County 50-year Club, and also belonged to the Modern Woodmen of America. He had retired from the B.F. Goodrich Company after more than 50 years of service. He represented Goodrich on the famous Glidden automobile tours in 1908, 1909, and 1910. Upon his return, he became the official driver for Goodrich officials. He had driven for all B. F.Goodrich presidents except Dr. B. F.Goodrich, covering over 2 million miles without an accident. In 1939 and 1940, he was Master of Ceremonies at the Goodrich exhibit at the World's Fair in New York. In 1941, he served in the Safety Department. In 1942 he joined the Public Relations Department. Mr. Hupfer organized the 20-Year Club in 1934. His hobbies were hunting, fishing and photography. One of his biggest thrills was a 32-day bear hunting expedition in the backwoods of Quebec. He is survived by daughter, Mrs. Stanley (Gladda) Craig, of Ennis, Montana; sisters, Mrs. Minnie Modesitt, of Akron; 3 grandchildren; 1 great-grandson; several nieces and nephews. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Billow Chapel, 85 N. Miller Rd., Fairlawn, where friends may call Tuesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., Rev. Ronald Walter officiating. Interment Glendale Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church radio fund. (Billow's, Fairlawn, 867-4141). A separate article from the same paper on the same day: GOODRICH CLUB FOUNDER DIES AT 92. When Albert A. Hupfer started working for B.F.Goodrich in 1901, he was earning six cents an hour feeding a tube machine. By the time he retired almost 50 years later, he had chauffeured company officials more than two million miles and probably knew more Goodrich employees personally than any other man. Mr. Hupfer, who founded the Goodrich 20-Year Club and served as its president for 17 terms, died Saturday at Akron City Hospital. He was 92. Mr. Hupfer came to Akron in 1898 from Easthampton, Mass., when his father was hired to gear up the rubber thread department at Goodrich. He joined the company three years later as a tube machine operator and later made golf balls. In 1908, 1909, and again in 1910, the young Hupfer was selected to go on the Glidden Tours, which were famed endurance tests for cars in the infancy of the auto age. His job was to help keep the tires in shape. When he returned, he was selected to be the official company chauffeur and, for the next 31 years, he drove company officials about 2,000,000 miles around the country without an accident. Mr. Hupfer was later transferred to the company public relations department where he was working when he retired in 1950. In addition to starting the Goodrich 20-Year Club, he was an organizer and the first president of the Goodrich Rifle Club. Even after his retirement, Mr. Hupfer, who lived at 374 Rankin St., stayed active and was a familiar face for many years with the Goodrich Top Side Crew at the Soap Box Derby. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Billow Fairlawn chapel, where services will be at l p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery! . ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:58:24 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: OBIT: HUPFER, 1964, Summit Co. From: "Lois & Del Hupfer" From Akron Beacon, dated Feb. 20, 1964: Bertha M. HUPFER, 71, of 360 Rankin St., a retired Goodrich art advertising department employee, died Wednesday in St. Thomas Hospital after a brief illness. She was a sister of Albert A. "Al" Hupfer of Akron, who retired in 1950 from the Goodrich public relations division with 48 years' service, and Mrs. Alma Marsh and Mrs. Minnie Modesitt, both of Akron, also former Goodrich employees. Miss Hupfer was born in Easthampton, Mass., and came to Akron 66 years ago. She retired from Goodrich in 1958. She was a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and sang in its choir 40 years. She was an active member of Senior Service Lutheran Day Center of St. John's and St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran churches; the Fifty Year Club, and the Goodrich Twenty Year Club. Dr. E.E. Krebs will conduct services at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Billow Akron Chapel, where friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:47:33 -0500 From: "Matt Majeski" Subject: Re: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 #201 James Leeper b1773 m Elizabeth Kent b1776. James layed out Osnaburg twp, Stark County, opened the first tavern. He died in 1823. Anyone have a clue where he was buried? Diana -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #204 *******************************************