Kloppenborg, Rodney 1915-2003

KLOPPENBORG, WIGNALL, BREUNIG, OWENS, HEARN, KATUSKY, SPITZ

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Date: 10/17/2005 at 21:44:34

Rodney Kloppenborg, 87, of 1006 N. 6th Ave. E. died of heart failure Wednesday, March 26, at his home in Newton.

Funeral services will be held Monday at Kloppenborg 11 a.m. at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton with the Rev. James Black of the Foursquare Church officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery in Newton.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home where the family will be available from 2 to 4 p.m. Memorials will be accepted to the Life Bible College Scholarship Fund or to Hospice of Jasper County and may be left at the funeral home.

The son of Lester and Pearl (Wignall) Breunig, he was born Nov. 5, 1915, in Rhodes. He was a graduate of Rhodes High School in 1933 and of AIB in 1947. On April 28, 1957, he married Helen E. Owens in Nashua. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked for the Maytag Company for 30 years. He was a supervisor in the paint department and retired in 1980. Mr. Kloppenborg was a member of the First United Methodist Church, attended the Foursquare Church, and was a member of VFW Post 1655 and the Maytag Management Club.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Rodney Kloppenborg Jr. of Redwood City, Calif.; two daughters and a son-in-law, Kimberly and Joe Hearn of Thurmont, Md., and Jill Katusky of Vancouver, Wash.; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, stepfather, Frank Kloppenborg, daughter Bonnie Spitz and two sisters.

The Newton (IA) Daily News, Friday, March 28, 2003