Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Couper, William Alan November 30, 1972
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St. Helena (CA) Star December 7, 1972
WILLIAM A. COUPER
Father Richard Tumilty, of Grace Episcopal Church officiated at Memorial 
services held at Morrison Funeral Chapel Monday morning for William Alan Couper, 
81, who died in St. Helena Hospital Nov. 30, after a short illness.
Born in Florence, Italy, Mr. Couper came to the United States with his parents. 
He was a third-generation artist. His grandfather was the famous William Ball, 
who sculpted the bust of Daniel Webster in New York’s Central Park, the 
Washington Monument in Methuen, Massachusetts, and an equestrian statue of 
Washington in the Boston Public Gardens. One of his students, Daniel Chester 
French, was sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
His father, William Couper, was another sculptor of note, his most famous work a 
statue of Capt. John Smith placed at the Pilgrim Landing at Jamestown Island, 
Virginia.
Mr. Couper was educated in the United States and served with the U.S. Navy 
during World War I. He was married in Newark, New Jersey in 1918 to Constance 
Rusby. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at the Hatchery in 
1968. The couple lived in Contra Costa until 1958, and resided one year in Rheen 
Valley, coming to the Napa Valley in 1969.
Mr. Couper excelled in marine art. For over 25 years, he sailed his own yacht 
from the Canadian Provinces to the Dry Tortuga Islands in the Gulf of Mexico. 
Mr. Couper had painted many scenes of the Noyo River and Mendocino County.
Surviving is his widow, Constance, of St. Helena; a son, Henry Couper of Orinda; 
a daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Nancy Couper) Ault of Basking Ridge, New Jersey; five 
grandchildren; a brother, Thomas Ball Couper of Montclair, New Jersey and 
numerous nieces and nephews.
Inurnment was in the Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia.
The family prefers memorial gifts to the Napa County Branch of the Heart 
Association of the Redwood Empire, 1019 Pearl St., Napa.

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