Census 1940 Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV
Name Age
Luigi Michele 68 father in law
Leonard Trupa 55 head
Minnie Trupa 42 wife
Russel Trupa 24 son
Marie Trupa 22 dau
Louis Trupa 20 son
Teresa Trupa 19 dau
Lucille Trupa 11 dau
Leonard Trupa 10 son
Also on record in Harrison County, WV as Teresa M. Trupo born on Oct 2, 1920.
There is a correction# 5390 placed on the 1917 entry in the record. I can not see
how she could be listed in 1917 page in the record book page 208. Other entries
on this page seem to be hap hazard as to the date.
Joe Trupo of Bridgeport served his community, state and country for nearly a half-century.
After a three-year stint in the Marine Corps, he went to the West Virginia State Police, serving all around the state for 30 years.
Some of his duty stations were Beckley, Welch, Princeton, Kingwood, Grafton, Sutton, Spencer, South Charleston, Weston and the Shinnston Detachment, where he served as captain over a 17-county area until his retirement in 1984.
Trupo and his wife Sarah were married in October of 1954, shortly after he graduated from the State Police Academy. They were married nearly 50 years before her death in January 2014.
He has one son, Michael, a retired State Police captain, who now serves on the Parole Board. There are also four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
“My wife worked at Lincoln High School as a cook supervisor while I was at the Shinnston Detachment. That was very convenient,” he said.
Harrison County Circuit Judge Thomas Bedell, who has known Trupo for over 30 years, said he has earned a reputation as one of the most impeccable characters he’s ever been associated with.
“He’s known for his honesty and straightforwardness and treating everybody, irregardless of their station in life, equally,” Bedell said. “I have known him during his service as a trooper, sheriff, and U.S. Marshal. He’s widely respected both statewide and nationally, not only in law enforcement, but as a U.S. Marine as well.
“I am blessed with my mother and late father being two parents that instilled working class values in me. If I could choose another father, I would choose Joe Trupo,” Bedell said.
Trupo gained a reputation for doing everything “by the book” and believed it was important for troopers to not only act professional but to look profession. He made a lot of friends working throughout the state during his career, some of whom he keeps in touch with to this day.
“I had the opportunity to work with Cpl. Bob Mozingo while he was at Princeton, who was like a brother, and they were both transferred to Kingwood for their next assignment,” he said. “I also became good friends with Prosecuting Attorney William Matthew Kidd in Sutton. He became a federal judge in Bluefield and later came to Clarksburg with the change of the federal districts.”
Trupo worked his way through the ranks of the State Police, making sergeant in charge of the detachment in Webster Springs, before moving to Weston from 1970-78 and finally, Shinnston.
He recalled working mine strikes, truck strikes and the Harrison Power Plant strike.
“I had to pull my revolver on about six guys who flattened my tires there and threatened to destroy my car,” Trupo said. “I told them to go ahead and knock the windshield out, you as taxpayers pay for it. I’d love to have a new car.”
After his retirement, he successfully ran for Harrison County sheriff and served two terms.
Some of his more memorable cases are those involving cleaning up Pike Street by shutting down the pool rooms and illegal gambling, along with the Carl Lee Gallo case, in which dozens of people were convicted of drug crimes.
NUTTER FORT — Sarah P. Thomey Trupo, age 84, of Bridgeport, passed away Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, following a sudden illness.
She was born July 22, 1929, in Salem, W.Va., a daughter of the late John R. Thomey and Cruz Maria Carbajal Thomey.
Her husband, Leonard Joseph “Joe” Trupo, whom she married Oct. 23, 1954, resides at their home in Bridgeport.
Also surviving are one son, Michael J. Trupo and his wife Rosemary (Veltri) of Bridgeport; four grandchildren, Stephanie Lindsey and her husband Eric of Morgantown, Michael J. Trupo and his wife Sarah of Gambrills, Md., Kathyrn M. Trupo of Morgantown, and Anthony J. Trupo, U.S. Marines; three great-grandchildren, Matthew, Nathan and Christopher Lindsey; her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Louis “Zeke” and Ada Trupo and sister-in-law, Frances McConchie.
She is also survived by cousin, Margaret Campbell; nieces and nephews, Dr. Joseph Trupo and wife Debbie, Jona Michel and husband Thomas, Louie Trupo and wife Tammy, Debby Thomey and Rick Thomey and wife Lisa; as well as many other nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, John Thomey, and sister, Yolanda Baldwin.
Mrs. Trupo was a member of the All Saints Catholic Church. She was a graduate of Salem High School and formerly worked at Parsons Souders and the Harrison County Board of Education, from which she retired as an administrator at Lincoln High School.
Family and friends may call at the All Saints Catholic Church, 317 East Main Street, Bridgeport, on Sunday from 2-8 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at 11 a.m. with Father Benny Kapa as celebrant.
Entombment will follow in the Holy Cross Mausoleum. Expressions of sympathy may be extended to the family at www.amoscarvelli.com
A service of Amos Carvelli Funeral Home.