Submitted by

Shirley Harlan

Services Friday at Newkirk for Mrs. Shupe, 78
Newkirk, April 1 – Funeral services for Mrs. Mamie Belle Shupe, 78, who died Tuesday at 10:25 pm at Maple View Manor after an extended illness, will be at 2:30 pm Friday in the First Christian church here.
Rev. Russell Towry will officiate and burial will be in Newkirk cemetery under direction of Stahl funeral service.
Mrs. Shupe was born in Cowley county, Kans. June 7, 1880. She was married to Arthur Shupe at Winfield, Kans., in 1921 and made her home near Peckham, later moving to Newkirk.
She was a member of the Christian Church.
Survivors are her husband of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Erma Chitwood, Blackwell, and Mrs. Thelma Stoll, Nardin; two brothers, William Beard, Oxford, Kans. And Luther Beard, Wichita; two sisters, Mrs. Goldie Darnell, Winfield, and Mrs. Rettie Hartman, Wichita and three grandchildren.