LEPPERT, Dewey 1899-1974

LEPPERT, PAUS, ARANDS, BULMAN, BECHTEL, SWENSON

Posted By: LA (email)
Date: 8/30/2019 at 08:29:08

Lansing Man Killed in Friday Accident
Dewey G. Leppert, 74, Lansing, was killed in a two-car accident on Iowa 9 about a mile west of Lansing around 8:50 p.m. Friday night.
Leppert was alone in his car, and was going west on the highway. Loren Paus, 22, Dorchester, was the driver of the other car, and was headed east. The cars met nearly head on near the center of the highway. Paus and a passenger in his car, Gary Arands, 20, Caledonia, Minn., were brought to Waukon Veterans Memorial hospital for treatment of injuries and then released.
State Trooper Gary Soper and Allamakee Deputy Sheriff Glenn Cooper covered the accident, and they say Paus has been charged with OMVUI.
LEPPERT RITES
Funeral services were held Monday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. from First Presbyterian church in Waukon for Dewey Leppert, 74, of rural Lansing.
The Rev. William Tjaden and the Rev. Alvin Ebert were the officiating ministers and interment was in the Lansing Ridge cemetery. Harold Fritz, Howard Leppert, Cletus Dee, Jim Ryan, Tom Kerndt and Curtis Gramlich were the pallbearers.
Mr. Leppert was born May 6, 1899 in French Creek township of Allamakee county and was a son of Andrew and Sarah Bulman Leppert. He attended the local schools and married Florence Bechtel. She survives him with two sons, Donald and Kenneth of Lansing, and a daughter Lucille of Waukon. Other survivors are three brothers, Ralph of Monona, Oscar of Edgely, N. D., and Willard of Seattle, Wash., a sister Mrs. Lloyd (Cora) Swenson of Waukon and eight grandchildren.
His occupation was farming and he was a member of First Presbyterian church.
Waukon Republican Standard, 7 May 1974, P 1 C 6, 7, 8 and P 10 C 6, includes photos of the two cars