Tipp City Herald - Veteran - World War I - U. S. Army, Air Service Signal Corps

March 1, 1972

 

MAUPIN, J. HOUSTON "TEX" - A requiem mass for J. Houston "Tex" Maupin, formerly of Tipp City, was offered in Holy Family Catholic Church, Seal Beach, California, where he and his wife have made their home for some years.  Mr. Maupin, 79, died on January 29 in a Los Atamitos (Calif.) hospital of a heart seizure which followed a massive coronary suffered three weeks earlier.  He was born in Gainesville, Texas, on January 22, 1893, the son of the late John Milton and Almyra Houston Maupin.  During World War I he was a pilot and flight instructor, serving as a lieutenant in the U. S. Army, Air Service Signal Corps.  He and his wife, the former June Gilcreest, were married in 1918 at Kelly Field, San Antonio.  Mr. Maupin moved to Tipp City from Texas in 1943 when he joined the Aeroproducts Division of General Motors Corporation, and lived here until his retirement.  Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a son, J. H. Maupin, Jr., of San Pedro, California; two daughters, Peggy, of Chicago, and Jeanne Maupin Tornow, of Apple Valley, California; and seven grandchildren.