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This site updated on March 5, 2007

With Mrs. Shoupe's death last spring, this site will cease weekly updates in February 2007. You'll still be able to visit archived "Printed As Written" and "Manchester Enterprise" reports.

Myrtle Shoupe died over the 2006 Mother's Day Weekend in Manchester Memorial Hospital, three days after her final column was published (below). She was two months shy of turning 97.
Click to read Andy Mead's superb article celebrating Mrs. Shoupe's life from the May 19 Lexington Herald-Leader.

And

to NPR's May 23 tribute to Mrs.Shoupe and the "Hima News."