Rupp, Weldon J. (1909-1986)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1 Jan 1987 p. 8

Birth date: 1909

text of obituary:

NEWTON & VICINITY

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● Funeral services for Weldon J. Rupp, 78, of North Newton, were held on Dec. 30 at Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton, with Darrell Fast and Don Kaufman officiating. Burial was in Hebron Cemetery near Buhler. A retired farmer and former employee of Hesston Corporation, Moridge Manufacturing Company and the Mid-Kansas Co-op, he died on Dec. 27 at Axtell Christian Hospital, Newton. Following his retirement, Rupp and his wife, the former Linda Balzer, who survives him, entered voluntary service assignments: one year in Arvada, Colo., as resident managers of Yarrow Gardens, a low-income housing complex; Bethel College staff volunteers as maintenance staff and campus hosts for Krehbiel House, Bethel's guest house, from 1978 to 1980, and again since 1985. Other survivors include four sons, Glenn of Nashua, N.H., Robert and Timothy of Lima, Ohio, and Mark of Moundridge; one daughter, Bernell Mueller of Grinnel, Iowa; one brother, Clarence of Manhattan; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Preceding him in death in 1949 was one son, William.