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© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma October 13, 2009 September 19, 1925 ~ October 11, 2009 The funeral service for David William Coppock will be 2 p.m. Thursday, October 15, 2009, at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home chapel. Rev Terry Chick will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. David was born September 19, 1925, in Pawnee, Okla., and passed away Sunday, October 11, 2009, in Enid. The grandson of Cherokee Strip Land Run pioneers, David grew up in Enid, where he became Oklahoma's youngest licensed pilot in 1941 and soloed for the first time that same year. When he was 17 years old, he lied about his age in order to enlist in the Navy during World War II. Serving on the rescue tug ATR-71, David spent World War II in the South Pacific rescuing US Naval ships that were crippled by the Japanese during battle. After World War II, David attended the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]. However, while home in Enid on college break, he was driving through town with his best friend, Jack Haworth, when they saw Jack's sister walking home from her job as a telephone operator. Jack suggested they give her a ride home and David met Ruth Haworth. He suddenly lost the desire to go back to California and finish college. David and Ruth were eventually married. He had several jobs that enabled him to use his love of flying, including performing in air shows that required him to perform aerial acrobatics and flying high-line patrol for OG&E inspecting high-line wires throughout Oklahoma. He then worked for Beech Aircraft delivering planes to their new owners from Montana to Louisiana. In 1950, he was hired by Central Airlines as a station agent eventually working for Frontier Airlines as a station manager here in Enid for 32 years, retiring in 1982. Through the years, David never lost his love of flying and used his airline employee benefits to fly his family literally around the world free. His wife, Ruth, and their five children traveled with him from Hong Kong to London with frequent trips to the South Pacific where he had spent World War II. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Ruth; his four sons, Mike Coppock, Zack Coppock and Pat Coppock, all of Enid, and Mark Coppock and his wife Anne Sturdivant Coppock of Fayetteville, Ark.; his daughter, Becky Coppock Barnes and her husband Brian Barnes of El Dorado, Kan.; two grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and one great grandchild. |
© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma September 3, 2022 September 12, 1928 ~ September 2, 2022 Funeral services for Ruth Coppock will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 7, 2022, in Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Terry Chick officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. Ruth Eleanor Haworth Coppock was born September 12, 1928, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Kenneth and Josephine [Pardoe] Haworth and passed away September 2, 2022, in Enid. She spent her youth in Omaha and Spencer, Iowa, where her parents bought a small acreage during the depression years. Some of her happiest memories were fishing with her father and brother along the Little Sioux River and tending to the chickens and ducks they raised. In 1940, the family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, and Ruth attended Emerson Junior High and Enid High School, graduating in 1946. An accomplished horse woman, she was a member of the Enid Riding Club while in high school riding her Paint mare, Gypsy. After high school, she worked at AT&T as a telephone operator and promoted to the B board. Her time at "the telephone office" was another of her happiest. She would later tell her children of the camaraderie she had with all her fellow operators including best friend, Thelma Kesner Brauser, and all the good times they had. While walking to her home on West Randolph after work one day, her brother, Jack Haworth, and his friend pulled alongside to offer a ride. Her brother's friend was David Coppock, and she was immediately taken with him. They married in November 1950, but they both had tempers and too much pride. They divorced less than a year later. However, a divorce could not get the other out of their hearts and they remarried in May 1954. As she would later say, "this time it took," and they remained married for fifty-five years until David's death in 2009. Ruth had grown up reading the works of Zane Grey and fantasized about traveling through America's west, particularly Arizona. Ruth and David traveled extensively through Arizona and New Mexico, bringing their five children along for the ride in their Volkswagen camper cruising down US Route 66. Later in their marriage, as David's airline career advanced, he was offered free-gratis travel passes on multiple airlines. This expanded their travel to around the world with visits to Hong Kong, Hawaii, England, Mexico, Bahamas, and other locales. Her expertise in packing a single suitcase for seven people could not be matched. Ruth kept a childlike wonder about the world around her and loved being in a crowd of friends and family to celebrate life's journey. She loved being a mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother. But above all, she was a daughter of Christ and knew she would someday rejoin her parents, brother, and David in heaven. She is survived by her four sons, Mike, Zack, Mark, and Patrick all of Enid; her daughter, Becky and son-in-law Brian Barnes of Augusta, Kansas; two grandchildren: Molly Rogers of Augusta, Kansas, and Noah Coppock of Stillwater, Oklahoma; and one great-granddaughter, Josephine Ruth Bailey of Augusta, Kansas. Also surviving are her niece, Ann Haworth Priest of Tuxedo Hills, NY; her nephews, Tim Haworth of Wichita, Kansas, and Bryan Haworth of Seattle, Washington; and Ruth's lifelong friend of seventy-years, Thelma Brauser and her daughters, Janet Richardson, and Anita Feemster, all of Yukon, Oklahoma. Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, with Ladusau-Evans serving as custodian of the funds. Condolences to the family may be made at ladusauevans.com |
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