Mr. Walter Bennett Maples

Funeral services for Walter Bennett Maples, 81, of Copperas Cove, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Grace United Methodist Church in Copperas Cove with the Rev. Stephen Schmidt officiating. Interment services will follow in the Copperas Cove City Cemetery. Mr. Maples died June 12, 2010, at his residence. He was born July 4, 1928, to Anderson B. and Hattie M. Maples in Coleman County, Texas.

On July 23, 1953, he married the love of his life, Davie Lee Glazener in Killeen. He graduated from Melvin High School with the Class of 1945 and later attended Texas Tech University. From 1950 until 1952 Mr. Maples served in the 2nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army. He was a Korean War veteran.

Mr. and Mrs. Maples moved to Copperas Cove in 1961. He began working for and became a partner in Connell Chevrolet Copperas Cove, where he remained until his retirement in 1987. He was a member of Mt. Hiram Lodge 595 in Copperas Cove and the Central Texas Council of Governments. He was past president of the Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. He served for 39 years on the Coryell Memorial Hospital Board.

Survivors include his wife, Davie Lee Maples of Copperas Cove; three sons, W.B. Maples and his wife, Lori, of Copperas Cove, Clifford Maples and his wife, Beth, of Kempner and John Maples and his wife, Stacie, of Kempner; a brother, Garland A. Maples of Lubbock; seven grandchildren, Thad Maples, Sheena Schmucker, Lauren Maples, Jennifer Maples, Cheyenne Maples, Sarah Maples and Spencer Maples; and one great-grandson, Luke Schmucker.

The Maples family will receive guests for a time of visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Copperas Cove.

Serving with honor as pallbearers will be David Smith, Allen Lyles, Ashby Melton, Edward Barbee, Spencer Maples, Thad Maples and Phillip Urofsky.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to Grace United Methodist Church, 101 W. Avenue F, Copperas Cove, TX 76522.

Services have been entrusted to the care of Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Copperas Cove.