Enid E. Shupe
  • Born on: February 4, 1918
  • Departed on: November 21, 2007

Enid E. Shupe

Enid Emily Shupe died on November 21 at the Good Neighbor Home in Manchester, where she had lived since 2003. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, December 1 at the United Methodist Church in Manchester. Burial of the cremated remains will follow at the Oakland Cemetery in Manchester. A gathering will take place from 9:00 -11:00 AM prior to the service at the church on Saturday. The Cremation Society of Eastern Iowa is in charge of arrangements. Enide was born on Feb. 4, 1918, near Nodaway, Iowa, the daughter of Fred and Alma (Windom) Shipley. She started her early education at the age of four in Nodaway and graduated at 16 from Nodaway Public High School. In the depths of the Great Depression, she was determined to become a teacher. With the assistance of a kind and generous uncle, she attended Simpson College and earned her "Normal School" diploma and teaching certificate. She taught briefly at Minburn, Iowa, before her marriage to Leonard Edwin Shupe on June 12, 1938. Two daughters were born to this union. During World War II, the couple lived in Joliet and Wilmington, Illinois, returning to Iowa to live in Missouri Valley and Modale after the war. They moved to Manchester in 1952. Enid taught first and second grade for 34 years, including Modale and Oneida schools, with 24 of those years in the West Delaware School District. She earned her BA in Elementary Education from the University of Northern Iowa, and continued with extensive graduate studies in English and American History. Together, Leonard and Enid were life-long members of the Methodist Church. Enid was a member of the Iowa State Education Association, the Wesleyan Service Guild, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a life member of the American Quilters Society and was widely known as a master quilter, much to the delight of friends and family who today possess samples of her handiwork. She continued to be active in the Manchester Book Club, even after she moved from her own home to live at the Good Neighbor Home, and until her final illness, reading books remained her favorite leisure time activity. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Drs. Sue Ellen and Leland D. Wright of Kent, Ohio, and her granddaughter Dr. Elena M. Kramer and her husband, Andrew N. Kramer, of Watertown, Massachusetts. She is also fondly remembered by countless former second-graders in Delaware County, who continued to visit her and think kindly of her in recent years, and to share their many accomplishments with her, a kindness for which she, and now her family, have always been profoundly grateful.
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