| Charlie Stroup was a lay speaker and Sunday School teacher at the Mt.
Olive United
Methodist Church at Hur for many years. His memorial service will be
conducted there
at 2 p.m. Sunday with Rev. Rick Swearingin officiating. His friends
and neighbors are
invited to participate in the service.
The Barnes Run resident died on March 11, 2001 at the age of 72 after
a bout with
cancer. He passed away at his daughters home in Pennsylvania. Charlie
and his wife
Melva moved to Calhoun County after his retirement from the Akron Fire
Department,
where he was a firefighter and a paramedic. He purchased the old Bill
Slider farm from
Clifford Starcher. Charlie was a faithful servant to the church and a
member of the
Order of Gideons. He was a veteran of the Korean War.
Charlie Stroup (L) and Gifford Weaver (R) sang loudly from the
warming
bench at the Hur Church. Both have now died and the bench is
vacant.
Born in 1929 in Akron, he was the son of the late Charles T. Sr. and
Adest Wamsley
Stroup. He is survived by his wife Melva L. Blatt Stroup; sons,
Charles V. Stroup of
Akron and Theodore T. Stroup of Hinesville, Georgia; daughters,
Rebecca S.
Szydlowski of Wilbraham, Mass., Teresa L Diez of Dillsburg, Pa.;
sisters, Helen L. White
of Akron, Ann J. Harbison of Holt, Mich. and Della M. Sutherland of
Englewood, Fla.
Also surviving are nine grandchildren.
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