Obit of DuPree, Eddie Richard (d160) - Payne County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Karla Harp 3 Sep 2004 Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== DuPree Rites Set Thursday Services for Eddie Richard DuPree, 85, of 217 E. Ninth, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Strode Chapel with Dr. Calvin Warpula officiating. Interment will be in Fairlawn Cemetery under direction of the Strode Funeral Home. A retired car salesman, he died Monday, Dec. 18, 1989, at the Stillwater Medical Center. He was born March 22, 1904, in Stillwater, the son of Edward and Nettie (Johnson) DuPree. He attended school in Stillwater and for the first 15 years of his working life he and his father worked together plastering houses in and around the Stillwater area. He played semi-pro baseball in the 1920's and 1930's for the Stillwater Boomers and Perry Merchants as a pitcher. Some of the other sports he loved were trap shooting and fishing. He and Hazel Ruth Johnson were married on March 8, 1924, in Stillwater. Survivors include his wife, Hazel, of the home; three sons, James Edward DuPree, Stillwater, Jerry Richard DuPree of Houston, Texas, and Woody Allen DuPree, Stillwater; one daughter, Mrs. Harvie (Cheri Ann) Richardson, Stillwater; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Nola Hickman, Sapulpa. He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers, five sisters and two grandchildren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html