From: Susan Gates Davis

 

 

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, December 26, 2000
LOUIS R. STROUP
May 12, 1909 - December 22, 2000
   Louis Raymond Stroup, 91, residing on Pierce Road, Lakeville, IN; passed away at 10:50 p.m. Friday, December 22, 2000, in Miller's Merry Manor Nursing Home, Plymouth, IN.  Mr. Stroup was born May 12, 1909, in Warren Township, IN, as the son of the late William and Mable Price Stroup, and had lived in this community all of his life, except for six years that he resided in Wisconsin.  In 1930, in Buchanan, MI, he married Violet Maxson, who passed away in 1942.  Then on April 30, 1949, in Lakeville, IN, he married Della V. Bunch Plummer.  She survives.  Also surviving is a daughter, Ruth White of Stamford, CT; six sons, John Stroup and Darrell Stroup, both of South Bend, Daniel Stroup of Indianapolis, William Stroup of Lakeville, Donald Stroup of Pahrump, Nevada, and Dale Stroup of Huntington Beach, CA.  He is also survived by nineteen grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by two sons, Richard Stroup in 1996 and James Stroup in August 2000; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
   Mr. Stroup was a member and elder emeritus at Grace Brethren Church, Osceola, where he was also extremely active with various committees, including Secretary and financial committee, and served as a Sunday School Teacher.  He was a 1927 graduate of South Bend Business College.  He retired in 1979 following 13 years of service at Sander's Lumber Company in South Bend.
   Services for Mr. Louis R. Stroup will be at noon, Wednesday, December 27, in Grace Brethren Church, 58343 Apple Road, Osceola.  Rev. Scott Distler, pastor, will officiate.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger.  The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the Palmer Funeral Home, 314 South Michigan Street, Lakeville, IN.
   Memorial contributions in Mr. Stroup's memory may be offered to Grace Brethren Church, Osceola.