Obit: Pipkorn, Louis H. (1876 - 1948)

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Surnames: PIPKORN HOLMES KROLL THIEL HAAVISTO SCHWARTZSAGER

----Sources: Marathon County Register (Unity, Clark Co., Wis.) 04/16/1948

Pipkorn, Louis H. (24 Mar. 1876 - 10 Apr. 1948)

Louis H. Pipkorn, 73, Spencer, route 1, died Saturday, April 10, at 1:45 in the afternoon at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where he had been a patient since April 2.

Mr. Pipkorn had been a resident in the Unity area for 45 years.

A heart ailment for which he had been hospitalized intermittently for the past six months caused his death.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church in Loyal Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Rev. Lee H. Holmes officiated at the services and burial was made in the Town of Beaver cemetery.

Mr. Pipkorn was born March 24, 1876, in the Town of Fremont and was married in the Town of Unity.

Surviving besides his wife, Bertha, are four daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Hattie) Kroll, Marshfield; Mrs. Rudolph (Adeline) Thiel, Loyal; Mrs. Emil (Doris) Haavisto, Owen; and Miss Velda Pipkorn, at home; and seven sons, Oscar, Fred, Otto, Leo, Adolph and Louis at home, and Bernard, Waupaca.

One sister, Mrs. Henry Schwartzsager, Oshkosh, also survives. He had 14 grandchildren.