Lewis W. Speer -1918-1988

SPEER, ERNST, HOPPE, ADRIAN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/30/2011 at 21:37:08

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa newspaper October 1988
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Word was received in Waukon, Iowa that Lewis W. Speer, of Helena, Montana, had passed away on October 13, 1988. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Helena, Montana. He was born January 3, 1918. He was a member of Community Bible Fellowship Church. Lewis married Gertrude Ernst in Chicago, Illinois on November 6, 1943. Gertrude's father, Rev. Karl Ernst, was a minister at Zion Reform Church at Zion Reform Church in Waukon, Iowa.

Survivors include his wife, Gertrude of Helena, Montana; 2 sons, Stephen Speer of Tucson, Arizona and Mark Speer of Lolo, Montana; a daughter, Karen Hoppe of Mankato, Minnesota; 8 grandchildren; and a sister, Helen Adrian of Michigan City, Indiana.