1978 – June 14 – Father Leonard Edgar ‘Pop’
Shoupe Dies
Jim and I
had first bought a house on Nall Lane and later, in 1976, we bought a house on
Bardstown Road, off of 31W. We were living in that house June 14, 1978 when we
got a call that my dad, Pop Shoupe, had died. Jim’s cancer had not moved as
fast as the doctor had said it would; but he wasn’t able to travel that far
either.
Darline, who
was pregnant with her third child, stayed with Jim while I went to Pops
funeral. Pop was buried in Ohio. Jim’s health started to deteriorate and he
started spending more and more time in the hospital than at home. I called his
daughter, Harvey Francis and tried to get her to come and see him. In the morning hours on the 22 of December, 1978, J.
C. Jennings died from the lung cancer.
Mid morning
of that same day I got a call from the hospital that a woman and three children
had come to the hospital to see Jim and they had told her he had died. I
thought that it had been Jim’s daughter but found out later that it had been my
oldest daughter, Ann, and her three daughters. They stayed over for the
funeral. Jim was buried outside of Maysville, Kentucky. Dana Darline Thomas, Darline
and Danny’s youngest child was born January 5, 1979; just weeks
after Jim died.
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