Floyd John Maupin

On Friday April 22, 2011 Floyd J. Maupin husband and father of three grown children lost his life to cancer at age 64. He passed while at his home in Grants Pass, Oregon. He was born in Klamath Falls Oregon in 1946 and moved to Grants Pass in 1949 with his parents Patience and Harold Maupin. He attended Fruitdale, South Middle School and Grants Pass High School where he graduated in 1965. His main hobbies included working first, then occasionally fishing and sometimes going hunting with his son. Occasionally his family could get him to stop working to go to the coast. He was a firewood cutter at the mill in Rogue River for about thirty years before beginning a lawn care business after the mill shut down. He enjoyed gardening raising animals and spending time with family. He survived cancer twice in his life, first in his thirties and second in his fifties. His final diagnosis of cancer came last year. He had a passion for we care for kid's day and donated firewood yearly to this charity. His family has set up a Floyd Maupin Memorial Fund at Sterling Savings Bank on Terry Lane to be donated to kids day in early December in his honor. His family would like to hold a celebration of his life later in the summer for the many who knew him as either there friend, yard maintenance guy, or as the stranger who put quarters in the rides at Wal-Mart just to see a smile from a little one. He will be missed by many including a family that includes a wife Lorina of 43 yrs. He had three children Jeannie Boulaoz of Eugene, Lori Allen and Gary Maupin of Grants Pass. He also had five grandchildren plus an unborn grandchild. His extended family concludes with five great grandchildren. He truly was a man who influenced many by his actions not his words. His family would like to thank the residents of Grants Pass for their generosity throughout the years.