Obit: Kippenhan, Christ (1854 - 1935)

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Surnames: KIPPENHAN KLUMB BAUMANN DECKER VOLLRATH

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 1/9/1936

OBITUARY OF CHRIST KIPPEHAN

Christ Kippenhan, son of Adam Kippenhan and his wife, Margaret N. E. Richter, was born on April 23, 1854 near Kewaskum, Wis. He died at 10:30 a.m., Dec. 4, 1935 at his home in Sidney, Mont., following a short illness from pneumonia. He was married to Anna Margaret Klumb in 1876. To this union were born six children, Henry, who died in infancy Matilda Baumann of Girard John of Sidney, Idena Decker of Girard Clara Vollrath of Kent, Wash. and Oscar of Sidney. He also leaves to mourn his passing, 17 grandchildren, a sister and two brothers. The latter relatives now reside in Wisconsin.

After his marriage he engaged in the hotel and livery business at Kewashkum, Wis., and later moved to Greenwood, in the same state, where he engaged in the lumber business and manufacture of barrel bottoms and staves. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1905. He came to Montana in 1910, taking up a homestead in the Girard community.

Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Dec. 8th, at 2:30 p.m. in Trinity English Lutheran Church, the pastor, Rev. B. G. Mueller, basing his funeral sermon on the words, Lord now lettest thou they servant depart in peace according to they word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. It was a source of considerable satisfaction for Mr. Kippenhan, the pastor stated, to seen the completion of Trinity Lutheran Church's new church building, since he was one of the organizer of the local congregation, many of the first services in years gone by having been conducted in his home, both in the Girard community and also during the first years of his residence in Sidney. Trinity church feels the passing of one of its most devoted members.