Frank L. Tupper, 59, former executive vice president of Durham Manufacturing in Muncie, died Monday in Wilmington, Del.
Mr. Tupper resided in Chesterfield, Mo., but commuted regularly to Wilmington, home of Zalea Systems Inc., cf which he was president. Mr. Tupper went to work at Durham after graduating from DePauw University in 1948. In 1956 fire destroyed the Durham factory, and he was a member of the committee that supervised rebuilding. In 1958 he was named executive vice president and a member of the board of directors. He received the Muncie Jaycees’ Distinguished Service Award in 1959 and was nominated by Muncie Jaycees as one of the outstanding young men of Indiana. While in Muncie he was a member of the executive board of the Delaware County Council of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the boards of the Jaycees, Rotary Club and Community Fund. He was instrumental in forming the United Fund here. He was also a member of the Muncie Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He attended First United Presbyterian Church. He left Muncie in 1961 to become vice president and general manager of Customade Products Corp. in Conway, Ark., and vice president of Universal Cabinet Division of Universal Metal Products Corp. of St. Louis, Mo. Both are subsidiaries of Universal Match Corp., of which he later became president. He was a native of South Bend and a veteran of World War II, serving as a navigator-bombardier in the Army Air Corps.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Henderson Tupper; three sons, Jeffrey Tupper of St. Louis, Todd Tupper of Phoenix, and Dick Tupper of Grand Rapids, Mich.; a daughter, Tracy Tupper of Phoenix, and five grandchildren.
Services are pending at Krieg-shauser Funeral Home, west chapel, in St. Louis.
1924 - 1983 (59 years)
Siblings
. Tracy Ann TUPPER, b. 11 Sep 1959 d. 30 Sep 2017, Victoria, Carver, Minnesota 
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