The son of Ralph and Susan Knapp, he was born Sept 18, 1916, on S. Custer Rd, in Raisinville Twp. He was graduated in 1936 from Dundee High School and moved to Arizona in the fall of 1937. He married Bess Wetherick July 5, 1951, at Stafford, Ariz. Mr Knapp, a salesman for the L.B. Price Mercantile Co, at Miami, was a Navy veteran of World War II, and a member of the Miami Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Lloyd Elmer and Ralph Donald of Miami, a brother, Elmer of Ida, and a sister, Mrs Donald (Alice) Sorter of Temperance.