Leppert, Nettie (Haines) 1869-1938

LEPPERT, HAINES, MCMILLAN, HOFF

Posted By: David Simon (email)
Date: 2/3/2018 at 16:01:04

Waukon, Ia - Special:

The funeral of Mrs. John M. Leppert, 69, will be held at the Methodist Church here Wednesday morning, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Robert Davies. Burial will be in the family lot in Oakland Cemetery.

Mrs. Leppert died Saturday evening at LaMour[sic], N. D., where she had been visiting her daughter. She had been ill only a week.

As Nellie Haines, she was born at Wyoming [Jones county, Iowa] on Sept. 5, 1869, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Haines. She came to Waukon with her parents at an early age. For many years she was in the millinery business here.

Following her marriage to Mr. Leppert, they moved to Fargo, N. D., where Mr. Leppert was engaged in the banking business.

Survivors include her husband; two children by a former marriage, Glen M. McMillan of Waukon and Mrs. Corrine Hoss [sic - should be Hoff] of LaMour[sic]; her mother, Mrs. Haines of Waukon; a brother, Prof. Arthur Haines of the University of South Dakota.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, November 11, 1938, page 7.