Obit: Kippenhan, Theodore J. #2 (1888 - 1966)

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Surnames: Kippenhan, Awe, Sieger, Meinhardt, Wickesberg, Wulf

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.)   12/08/1966

Kippenhan, Theodore J. #2 (4 JAN 1888 - 30 NOV 1966)

Theodore J. Kippenhan, 78, a lifelong resident of Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.), died at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1966, in the Memorial Hospital at Neillsville where he had been admitted the previous day after suffering a stroke at his home.

Services were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Immanuel United Church of Christ in Greenwood with the Rev. Jacob Grether, Neillsville, and the Rev. David Logue, Greenwood, officiating.  Burial was made in the West Side Cemetery.

Hill Funeral Home had charge of funeral arrangements.

Mr. Kippenhan was born Jan. 4, 1888, in the town of Mead, Clark County, and lived here his entire life.  His marriage to Martha Awe took place June 23, 1915, at the home of the bride’s parents in the town of Green Grove, with the Rev. Otto Saewert officiating.

After their marriage, the couple settled 7 miles northwest of Greenwood where they farmed until their retirement in 1956.  They made their home with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meinhardt, rural Greenwood, and since 1961 had resided in the city of Greenwood.

Mr. Kippenhan was a member of the Immanuel United Church of Christ in Greenwood, and had served as deacon of the church for six years.

I addition to his wife, survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Emory (Norma) Sieger, Kenosha; Mrs. Elmer (Esther) Meinhardt, Sheboygan Falls; and Mrs. Price (Rosa) Davis, Milwaukee; three sons, Alvin and Paul, Greenwood; Herbert, Wausau; five sisters, Misses Hilda and Louis Kippenhan and Mrs. Herbert (Emma) Wickesberg, Appleton; Mrs. Elmer (Lydia) Wulf, Pueblo, Col.; and Miss Cilla Kippenhan, Neillsville; four brothers, August, John, Arthur and Roland Kippenhan, all of Appleton; 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.