Mr. Knapp, 61, Auburndale, Polk County, Florida died Sunday, Dec. 10. He was born in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, the only son of Glenn and Helen Gertrude (Bruckner) Knapp.
He attended and graduated from Buckbee Middle School and East High in Rockford, Illinois. He later earned his A.B. degree and worked, first, as a transmission specialist for his dad's business and then as a security guard, a restorative aide and a medical van driver for a local nursing home. In his later years, he was a self-employed taxi driver for the disabled, in Cedar County.
He married Cheryl Lynn Shomaker in 1978 in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois. This marriage produced five children. They divorced, and in 2005, he married Barbara Ann Berney. In 2007, he divorced and married Roxana Sewell. They divorced in 2008.
He was a Missionary Baptist and regularly attended church in Stockton and Springfield.
He went to live near his daughter in Auburndale, Florida, where he died shortly afterward.
Survivors include his father, Glenn Knapp; an uncle, Harold Knapp; an aunt, Lula Norris Knapp; children, Michael Justin Knapp and wife Melissa, Joel Austin Knapp and wife Tawnwy, Jordan Alexander Knapp, Desiree Noelle Murray and husband Brandon and Aaron Nathaniel Knapp; grandchildren, Alyssa, Adrianna, Gavin, Faith and Corbin Knapp; and several cousins.
He was preceded in death by his mother and grandparents.
