OBIT: Rev. Raymond E. CUPPLES, 1972, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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  REV. RAYMOND E. CUPPLES 
  
    The Rev. Raymond E. Cupples, 62, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church
  of Newry (Blair County) and a former pastor of Sts. Philip and James
  Catholic Church, Meyersdale, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Tuesday,
  Jan. 4, 1972, in the church rectory there.  He was also serving as pastor
  of St. Ann Mission at Roaring Spring.
    Father Cupples assumed the Newry pastorate in 1957 when he left the
  Meyersdale church.  He also had served at St. Bridgid's, in Lilly; St.
  Leo's in Altoona; St. Mary's in Hollidaysburg; and Our Lady of Mercy Church
  in Johnstown.
    A native of Altoona and a graduate of the former Altoona Catholic High
  School, he prepared for the priesthood at St. Francis College and Seminary
  in Loretto.  He was ordained May 26, 1934, at the Cathedral of the Blessed
  Sacrament, Altoona, by the late Bishop John J. McCort.
    Born Feb. 9, 1909, he was a son of James and Mary Jane (Ruffley) Cupples.
    He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Helen Berger, North Cape May, N. J.
    Funeral mass was conducted Saturday morning in St. Patrick's Church,
  Newry, with the Most Rev. Bishop James J. Hogan, D. D., concelebrant, and
  the Rev. Edward Davis, rector of St. John Gualbert's Co-Cathedral,
  Johnstown, preacher.  Interment Calvary Cemetery, Altoona.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, June 13, 1972
  
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