RUPP, DALE PASSED AWAY APRIL 10, 1996 AT CHAMPION, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 43 YEARS.
DALE WAS BORN MARCH I2, 1953 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT BOTH CHAMPION AND VULCAN, GROWING UP ON THE FARM, HE LOVED THE FARM WAY OF LIFE AND CONTINUED TO FARM, RAISING CATTLE AND GRAIN.
DALE ENJOYED SPORTS INCLUDING CURLING WHERE HE SERVED A TERM AS PRESIDENT, BASEBALL AND HOCKEY. HE ENJOYED WATCHING LOCAL AMATEUR AND JUNIOR GAMES. FARMING WAS HIS FIRST PLEASURE. HOWEVER HE WAS NOT FOND OF PICKING ROCKS.
DALE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, MRS. GLORIA RUPP OF CHAMPION, HIS GRANDMOTHER ANNE RUPP OF CALGARY, CHILDREN MELISSA, BRAD AND GRANT, WIFE LOUISE, TWO BROTHERS JIM (TRUDY) OF BONNYVILLE AND GORDON (ANN) OF CHAMPION, THREE NEPHEWS, FOUR NIECES AND NUMEROUS AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS. HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER ALFRED IN 1995.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY APRIL 15, 1996 AT 1: 30 P.M. AT EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, CHAMPION WITH PASTOR KEITH BLACKMORE OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT CHAMPION CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS RICHARD HEGLAND, KEN MUNTON, CHRIS ANDERSON, DEL FISCHL, PETE SANDERSON, ED FEDAJ AND DON DOW.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES CAN BE MADE TO A LOCAL CHAMPION CHARITY.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.