Obit: Kippenhan, Martha #3 (1893 - 1967)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Kippenhan, Awe, Saewert, Meinhardt, Sieger, Davis, Voightlander, Logue

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/13/1967

Kippenhan, Martha (5 July 1893 - 9 July 1967)

Mrs. Theodore (Martha) 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 5, 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 anniversary in 1965.

After their marriage, the couple settled seven miles northwest of Greenwood, where they farmed until retirement in 1956. They made their home with a 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 R. (Rosa) Davis of Milwaukee; 15 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, Arthur Awe, of Owen; and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Voightlander of Abbotsford.