Kepler, Laura Arabella Bute (1864-1942)

KEPLER, BUTE, WALTERICK, LAFRANTZ, LAFRENTZ, STERNER, BROOKS, LARSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/21/2017 at 16:49:28

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, December 1, 1942

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD IN STANHOPE FOR MRS. KEPLER

STANHOPE, Iowa - Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Stanhope Monday for Mrs. Belle [Laura Arabella Bute] Kepler, 68, who died Saturday afternoon at Lutheran hospital in Fort Dodge after an illness of four days.

Mrs. Kepler had gone to Fort Dodge about a week ago to visit her son, Dewey Kepler, and was suddenly taken ill a few days ago.

Three sons and five daughters survive. They are Mr. Kepler, of Fort Dodge; Eugene Kepler, Seattle, Wash.; Weldon Kepler, Davenport; Mrs. Paul Walterick, Fort Dodge; Mrs. George LaFrantz [Lafrentz], Michigan City, Ind.; Mrs. J.E. Sterner of Swisher; Mrs. Cecil Brooks, Marshalltown; and Mrs. W.R. Larson of Fairmont, Minn.

[married to George F. Kepler - burial Lawn Hill Cemetery, rural Stanhope]