MILFORD ACUP

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Milford L. "Pete" Acup of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Richard Krueger will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau.

Acup, 53, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at Heartland Care and Rehabilitation Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Jan. 14, 1943, in Alton, Ill., son of Burford and Jewell Jones Acup. He and Shirley S. Tucker were married June 29, 1974, in Sikeston.

Acup was a mechanic at Plaza Tire seven years, and a mechanic at Kmart 13 years, both in Cape Girardeau.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, David, Jimmy and Dewayne Acup; a stepson, Cecil Hardin of Cape Girardeau; three stepdaughters, Kathryn Coleman of St. Louis, Sallie McClendan of Sedalia, Ky., Kellie Reeves of Sikeston; his mother, Jewell Kemp of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Bill Acup of Cahokia, Ill., Ronald Kemp of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Olivia Burlison of Perkins, and six stepgrandchildren.

His stepfather and a stepgrandchild preceded him in death.