Obituary for Henry Depping (d.1986)
Troy Free Press, Troy, Lincoln County, MO.
From the clippings of John E. Meyer.

Henry DEPPING, 82, a retired Justice Department Lawyer and Washington, D.C. resident passed away October 28, 1986 of a heart attack in Capitol Hill Hospital. He had been an invalid for almost two years after suffering a stroke.

Mr. DEPPING was born in Moscow Mills, the son of William A. and Emma STEINMESCH DEPPING and graduated from Central Wesleyan Academy in Warrenton in 1923. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Missouri in 1926 and was student president there. He practiced law in Kansas City until moving to Washington in 1957 to become general counsel for the Federal Flood Indemnity Program. Two years later he was a lawyer with the lands division at Justice and was a consultant there after his retirement.

While in Kansas City, Mr. DEPPING was president of the Kansas City Bar Association and also was active in Republican politics. He seconded the presidential nomination of Alf Landon at the GOP National Convention in 1936, and was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for senate attorney general that year. In Washington, Mr. DEPPING was a member of the Missouri Society.

His marriages to the former Mary EDWARDS and Virginia HOUGH ended in divorce. He was preceded in death by a brother, Wesley "Pete" DEPPING of Moscow Mills and a sister, Hazel DEPPING SCHMIDT of Foristell.

Survivors include two daughters, Diana HOXIE of Washington, D.C. and Janet RESNIK of Chapel Hill, N.C.; two sisters, Mildred DEPPING of St. Louis and Irene LANGFORD of Bowling Green and six grandchildren.

A small burial service was held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the United Church of Christ Anderson Hill Cemetery, Moscow Mills.

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by Nancy Weller, 21 June, 2003.

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