Obit: Kippenhan, Martha Awe (1893 - 1967)

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Surnames: AWE KIPPENHAN LOGUE MEINHARDT SAEWERT SIEGER DAVIS VOIGHTLANDER

----Source: Clark County Press 7/13/1967

Obituary of Martha Awe

(Thursday, July 13th, 1967 edition of the Clark County Press)

Mrs. Theodore Kippenhan, 74, of Kenosha and recently of Greenwood, died Sunday in a Kenosha hospital following a heart attack. Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at 2 o'clock from Immanuel United Church in Greenwood. Burial will take place in the West Side cemetery. The Rev. David Logue will officiate.

Mrs. Kippenhan was born July 5th, 1893, the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Henry Awe in the Town of Green Grove. She was married to Theodore Kippenhan June 23, 1915 at the home of her parents with the Rev. Otto Saewert officiating.

Mr. And Mrs. Kippenhan celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1965. After their marriage, the couple settled seven 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 of rural Greenwood, until 1961, when they moved into a residence in Greenwood, where Mr. Kippenhan died in November, 1966.

In May, 1967, Mrs. Kippenhan moved to Kenosha to make her home with a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. And Mrs. Emery Sieger.

Mrs. Kippenhan was a lifetime member of the Immanuel United Church and of the Women's Guild.

Survivors include: three sons, Alvin and Paul of Greenwood, and Herbert of Wausau three daughters, Mrs. Emery (Norma) Sieger of Kenosha, Mrs. Elmer (Esther) Meinhardt of Sheboygan Falls, and Mrs. Price (Rosa) Davis of Milwaukee 15 grandchildren four great-grandchildren a brother Arthur Awe, of Owen and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Voightlander of Abbotsford.