Russ Kyper age 91 of Englewood passed away January 27, 2020, he was born to Wayne and Harriet Kyper in Huntingdon County PA in 1928. After high school, he served 44 months in the US Navy Seabees in the Pacific. After discharge, Russ moved to Florida where he met Joy DeMay vacationing with her parents at Indian Rocks Beach and she became his wife one year later. They were married in Rochester, NY and Russ was employed by S R Parry Machine Company. Twenty two years later he transferred to Alliance Tool Corp and retired as a Sales Engineer and they moved to Englewood in 1990.
Russ’ interests were sailing Lake Ontario with his wife aboard their sloop “Spindrift”, and deer hunting in the southern tier of NY. Former activities and memberships include Boy Scouts, Civil Defense, Masonic Lodge, Demascus Shrine, Royal Order of Jesters, Brooklea CC, Pultneyville Yacht Club, Lemon Bay Playhouse trustee, Chamber of Commerce, and EUMC. He and his wife co-founded the annual Buchan Aviation Fly-in Breakfast, and was president of Spirit of Englewood, a solar power ferry project he also founded. His loving wife of 64 years predeceased him in death on June 19, 2016.
He is survived by his two sons Scott and Leslie Kyper of Lakeland, FL, Dan and Jean Kyper of Ontario, NY, and daughter Lynda and John Richardson of Port Charlotte, FL, 7 grandchidren, 8 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at the Englewood United Methodist Church on Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 11:00 am. Interment will be at the National Cemetery in Sarasota, Florida on Friday, July16, 2021 at 11:00 am with military honors. In lieu of flower please support the Shrine Hospitals for handicapped Children.
Arrangements are by Lemon Bay Funeral Home Englewood, Florida.
SHARE OBITUARY
v.1.8.18