PIPPERT, Elizabeth (Brown) 1840-1934

PIPPERT, BROWN, FREESE

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 9/11/2012 at 15:13:43

Elizabeth (Brown) Pippert – November 15, 1840 – December 1934

MRS. PIPPERT, 94, IS BURIED
RITES HELD AT NORA SPRINGS FOR WIDOW OF PIONEER IOWA MINISTER

Nora Springs, Dec. 6 – Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Pippert, 94, were held at the Methodist church, conducted by her pastor, the Rev. J. M. Krafft, assisted by Dist. Supt. G. Gergeman of Ford dodge. The Rev. Phillip Phaltzgraff of Hubbard sang. Burial was in Park Cemetery.

Elizabeth Pippert, nee Brown, was born November 15, 1840, at Imfchenheim, Ziegenhein, Kurhessen, Germany and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ella Freese near Nora Springs.

When 9 she came with her parents to Canada and a year later moved to Iowa, settling on a farm near Muscatine. When 19 she united with the Evangelical church.

In 1861 she was married to John Pippert. Mrs. Pippert shared the hardships of the early pioneer preacher’s life. Those were days when neighbors lived many miles apart and her husband would be gone weeks at a time where his ministerial duties took him. The cares of the family fell largely on her.

She is survived by two sons, Charles of Mason City; John of Hartley; Mrs. Ella Freese of Nora Springs; one brother and one sister; 17 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Her husband the Rev. John Pippert and son, Henry Pippert of Los Angeles, California, preceded her in death.

Mason City Gazette, Thursday December 6, 1934