OBITUARY: David E. Cypher, 76, dies April 7, 2014
David E. Cypher, servant of God and helper of His children, went to his Heavenly home April 7, 2014. He was born to Ramon B. Cypher and E. Lucille Perrill Cypher on April 10, 1937, in Hayes, Kansas.
He has one sister, Diane Cypher LaRose of Kansas.
He married Mary Jo Kendall Cypher on Aug. 17, 1959, in Willow Springs, Mo. They have five children: Steven and Carla Cypher of California; Michael and Lori Cypher of Texas; Brian and Jenny Cypher of Texas; Jennifer Cypher of Texas; and Renee Cypher Spitz and Michael Spitz of California. David loved 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild and enjoyed their company.
David was a Bible teacher and praise leader from his high school days until recently. He became an ordained minister in 1983. Even when he was not pastoring a church, he was teaching and helping people.
His formal education included high school in St. James, Mo., Class of 1955; one year at Rolla School of Mines (where he had an architectural drawing class he used all his life); a term at Springfield’s Southwest Missouri State; nine months of intensive Chinese language at Yale University for the U.S. Air Force; some night college courses from Anderson Bible College, Indiana; a short-termed electronics course from Kansas City; graduated from the first software class from BHP steel company, Newcastle, Australia; and nine months in a Bible training school in Australia.
He liked farming concord grapes in Missouri and Washington. He enjoyed fixing and building. He built houses. He built a pioneer church building in Wyoming. The work of his hands has blessed many family and friends.
Besides all of the above, he loved his home groups, friends and churches. He was a prolific fiction reader. He liked camping, hiking, driving, barbecuing, making and eating homemade ice cream. In all things, he believed in walking in the Spirit with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is and will be greatly missed.
A memorial service is 2 p.m. April 15 at Hill Country Fellowship in Burnet.
Arrangements by Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home, 1805 U.S. 281 North in Marble Falls, (830) 693-4373.