| Biography* | | HONOLULU --- Mrs. Marion Lucille Culpepper Stroup, 66, a former resident of Gulfport, died Wednesday, December 23, 1998, in Honolulu. Mrs. Stroup was born in Honolulu on September 2, 1932. She attended Gulfport City Schools and Punahou Academy in Hawaii, graduating from Gulfport High School in 1950. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Art History from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. After college, she worked as the librarian of the Baltimore Art Museum, where she also helped mount exhibits. After Mrs. Stroup and her husband moved to Hawaii, she worked in the public school system as a speech therapist. She judged gymnastics
competitions statewide and on the mainland and served as a scout leader. When she lived in Gulfport, she was a member of St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. Mrs. Stroup was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Dixon Stroup, a professor at the University of Hawaii in the department of Oceanography, and her parents, Sebron Clifton Culpepper, M.D., Honolulu, Hawaii, and Mrs. Lucille Middleton Nason Culpepper, Gulfport. She is survived by her two children, David Lewis Stroup and his wife, Barbara, of Portland, Oregon, and Sarah Culpepper Stroup-Roberts and her husband, Richard Roberts, of Berkeley, Calif; two sisters, Betty Nason Culpepper Belt of Santa Ynez, Calif., and Lillian Jane Culpepper Randall of Gulfport; and nine nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church at 10 a.m. today. (Sun-Herald, Biloxi, MS, 10 Apr 1999).
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