Clarence William Duppstadt ^{851,1195,1204}

  General Notes:

Obituary, 1947, newspaper unknown:

Clarence William Duppstadt, 65, died suddenly Tuesday night while on an inspection trip to Everett (PA). He was a son of the late George and Mary Statler Duppstadt and was born in Nebraska. He spent his boyhood on the family farm which later became Rhodes Flying field in Somerset township. He graduated from Somerset high school and from the California Normal school.

After teaching several terms in Somerset and Westmoreland counties, he went abroad for the United States government and spent eleven years in the Phillipine Islands helping to organize the schools and training native teachers. He traveled in the Orient and on the continent of Europe. He returned to the United States and attended Pennsylvania State college. At college he participated in debating and was a member of a stock judging team. He graduated with a B.S. degree in 1915.

After college, Mr. Duppstadt managed a dairy farm for fifteen years and then returned to teaching. He organized a high school in Ohiopyle, Fayette county, and also taught in Somerset county until ill health forced him to retire in 1942. Since then, he resided at 121 Fuller avenue and did part-time barn inspections for dairies in Westmoreland, Fayette, Bedford and Somerset counties.

He was a member of Trinity Lutheran church and served one year as master of the Somerset Grange and was active in the early reorganization of the Farm Bureau for Somerset county under the agricultural extension services.

He is survived by his wife, Laura Su fall (sic Zufall) Duppstadt; a son, J. Robert, who is an engineer for United Services for Air at Buffalo, N.Y.; a daughter, Gladys, who is program director for teen-age activities at the Young Women's Christian Association of Bethlehem (PA); and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Edward Cleeves and Miss Elsie M. Duppstadt of Somerset (PA); Mrs. John Henderson of Indiana (PA); Robert W. Duppstadt of Pittsburgh (PA); Orlo A. Duppstadt of Vandergrift (PA); and Harold Duppstadt of Kittanning (PA).

Funeral services will be held at the Hoffman Funeral Home at 2:30 Friday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. J. Hess Wagner, D.D. Internment will be in Somerset County Memorial Park.

  Life Events:

1. Alt. Birth, 14 May 1881, Carleton, Thayer, Nebraska, USA. ^{851,1195,1204}

2. Graduated: California Normal School. ¹²⁰⁴

3. Church Affiliation: Trinity Lutheran Church. ¹²⁰⁴

4. High School-Graduated: Somerset High School: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹²⁰⁴

5. Funeral: Hoffman Funeral Home; Rev. J. Hess Wagner. ¹²⁰⁴

6. College-Bachelors: The Pennsylvania State University: BS 1915 Dairy Science, College Of Agricultural Sciences, 1915, University Park, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA. ^{1204,1428,1429}

Clarence married Laura Gladys Zufall on 14 Oct 1915.⁸⁵¹ (Laura Gladys Zufall was born on 29 Mar 1876 in Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA,^851,1427 died in Aug 1955 in Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA ^851,1427 and was buried in Somerset County Memorial Park Cemetery (Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA ¹⁴²⁷.)