THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 9, 1996 TAG: 9608090428
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: 22 lines
Allen Rex Upchurch, 72, died Monday, Aug. 5, 1996, in a Chesapeake hospital.
Mr. Upchurch was born in Wake County, N.C., and was the son of the late Rex Edgar and Ruth Simpkins Upchurch. He was the widower of Shirley Simonin Upchurch. He was a member of Inwood Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C. He was a retired elevator constructor with Dover Elevator Co. He was a member of Local (NU)52 International Union of Elevator Constructors, Corinthian Masonic Lodge (NU)266, Norfolk, Scottish Rite Bodies; Khedive Shrine Temple and the Chesapeake Shrine Club.
Survivors include his daughter, Rebecca Ruth Grayson of Oswego, Ill., and a sister, Doris Holk of Denver, Colo.
A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Inwood Baptist Church Cemetery, Lake Wheeler Road, Raleigh. Oman Funeral Home, Great Bridge, is in charge.
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