DAVE COPPOCK 1951 - 1982 STATION AGENT, RELIEF AGENT, STATION MANAGER ADM SWO WDG OKC Fall 2004 newsletter very good. On page 13 reference "Coppock Question".....I have a couple of things to add. Nowhere is there a mention of Durant OK (DUA) being served. I was hired by Jim Moore, manager of DUC, on April 29, 1952. I served several months as an agent and then transferred to Ardmore (ADM) where I worked for Dave Coppock. I worked in ADM until 1958 when I transferred to Dallas Love Field (DAL) and entered college. This is to let no one forget about ole Durant (DUA) Eaker Field. -Sam Jones (3/16/04) Dave Coppock phoned. He wanted to know if I knew when CN pulled out of Ada and Ardmore OK. Unfortunately, I didn't know. He talked about his health problems - heart attack in '99, etc. He's 79 now. He was #2 on CN seniority list after Bill Sharkey - started in late 1951. Dave retired from FL in 1982 with 31 years. -Jake Lamkins (3/22/04) Coppock-50th Mr. and Mrs. David Coppock celebrated their 50th anniversary by attending their granddaughter’s wedding May 15 at MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas. David and Ruth Coppock were married May 15, 1954, at Washington Avenue Baptist Church. He worked for Central Airlines and then Frontier Airlines as a station agent in Enid. He retired after 32 years in September 1982. She is a homemaker. Their children are David Michael Coppock, Rebecca Coppock-Barnes, Zachary Coppock, Mark Coppock and Patrick Coppock. -ENID NEWS (5/25/04) OBITUARY David William Coppock The funeral service for David William Coppock will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home chapel. Rev. Terry Chick will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. David was born Sept. 19, 1925, in Pawnee, Okla., and passed away Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, in Enid. The grandson of Cherokee Strip Land Run pioneers, David grew up in Enid, where he became Okla-homa'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 U.S. 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 and 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 on 10/14/09 D W COPPOCK The 5/18/53 CN seniority list shows D. W. Coppock based at SWO with 10/22/51 seniority date. The 1/1/62 CN seniority list shows him as WDG station manager. Station agent seniority date of 10/22/51, emp# 01564, on the 1/1/74 FL/ALEA seniority list. FL dropped service to WDG Sep 1, 1979 per the Jun 1981 FL News. Dave was an OKC station agent til his retirement. -Jake Lamkins (10/23/09) Posted at the FL Club WDG station manager Dave Coppock has died Dave's obit is at http://www.legacy. com/ENIDNEWS/ Obituaries. asp?Page= Notice&PersonID= 134371676 Sign his guestbook while there. Dave's CN/FL airline years spanned 1951-82. -Jake Lamkins (10/23/09) Anniversaries 30 years D. W. Coppick, station agent, OKC Per article in the Dec 1981 FL News -Jake Lamkins (10/29/09)