Obit: Kippenhan, Carl (1906 - 1946)

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Surnames: KIPPENHAN HINTZ MEINHARDT SIEVERT WOLF WICKESBURG

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1946, Transcribed by Kipp Kippenhan

KIPPENHAN FUNERAL HELD AT GREENWOOD
REV. KLINGEBERGER OFFICIATES AT SERVICES MONDAY AFTERNOON

Greenwood Funeral services for Carl Kippenhan, 40, who died Friday, Oct. 11, 1946, at 9 a.m. at Mendota Hospital, where he had been taken two days earlier, were held at the Schiller Funeral Home Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and at West Side Reformed Church at 2 o'clock. The Rev. J.C. Klingeberger officiated and interment was made in the church cemetery.

During the service the junior choir, accompanied by Mrs. J.C. Klingeberger, sang Safe in the Arms of Jesus and Ivory Palaces . Pallbearers were Arnold Decker, Lester Frank, Joseph Boe, Gilbert Abel, and Adolph Abel, Greenwood, and Arthur Kuester, Thorp.

Flowers were carried by four nieces, Mrs. Roland Hintz, Milwaukee Mrs. Elmer Meinhardt, Owen Miss Rosa Kippenhan, Milwaukee and Mrs. Max Sievert.

Carl Kippenhan, son of John and Minna (Franz) Kippenhan, was born in the Town of Mead, Clark County, northwest of Greenwood, May 13, 1906, and was baptized and confirmed as a member of Immanuel (West Side) Evangelical and Reformed Church, Greenwood.

Mr. Kippenhan, whose death was caused by bronchial pneumonia and a heart ailment, had operated the Moberg farm, east of Greenwood, until recently.

He is survived by his aged father, John Kippenhan, Appleton, and the following brothers and sisters: Hilda Kippenhan, Appleton Louise Kippenhan, Balck River Falls Cilla Kippenhan, Neillsville Mrs. Elmer (Lydia) Wolf, Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Herbert (Emma) Wickesburg, Appleton John Kippenhan Jr., Appleton Arthur Kippenhan, Loyal Roland Kippenhan Appleton and Theodore, August, and Edward Kippenhan, Greenwood.

Those from away who attended the funeral were his father, John Kippenhan, Appleton Miss Louis Kippenhan, Black River Falls Miss Hilda Kippenhan, Appleton (The rest of my copy was cut off)