1932-2023

Services for Elizabeth Melvina Dupuis, 91, of Wills Point, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton with Rev. Mark Huston officiating. Interment will be in Haven of Memories Memorial Park.

Mrs. Dupuis passed away on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, in Mineola. She was born March 9, 1932, in Groves, Texas to Norman Ezell and Margaret Kathleen Goff Stokes. Her grandparents, Roy Delbert and Mayme Elizabeth Johnson Goff helped to rear her. She spent her young years in Groves and became a Christian at an early age. She graduated from Port-Neches-Groves High School in 1949. She married Robert L. Dickerson and they lived in Groves, Corpus Christi and Nederland. They reared three children. In 1978, she married Weldon V. Dupuis. They made their home in Mesquite until moving to Wills Point in 1993. She earned Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Texas A&M-Commerce and taught school in Wills Point for 12 years, retiring in 2005. She maintained piano studios in Corpus Christi, Nederland, Mesquite and Wills Point, teaching many students through the years. She enjoyed homemaking, sewing, quilting, gardening and Bible Study.

Mrs. Dupuis is preceded in death by her parents, Norman and Margaret Stokes; daughters: Cherilynn Dickerson-Dupuis and Kathleen Dickerson Smith; and a grandson, Andrew Smith.

Elizabeth is survived by her husband, Weldon V. Dupuis; sister-in-law, Earline Dupuis; son, Richard Dickerson; daughter-in-law, Claudia Dickerson; stepson, David Dupuis; son-in-law, Robert Smith; nine grandchildren: Stephen Dickerson and wife, Amanda; Stacey Dickerson Palacios; Krystopher Allen and wife, Meagan; Shelley Allen; Corey Allen and partner, Sky; Amy Hale and husband, David; Lillian Elizabeth Jones and husband, Eric; Daniel Smith, and Margaret Kathleen Smith; 12 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers will be Stephen Dickerson, Krystopher Allen, Corey Allen, Daniel Smith, Andrew Smith (deceased), David Hale, and Eric Jones.

Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, at the funeral home.