KNOPP, Mathew J. 'Matt' 1876 - 1946

KNOPP, GREENFIELD, MAHAFFEY, MACKINNON, SCHOO, FRANZEN

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Monday, December 30, 1946
Page 4, Column 8

Funeral Tuesday For Matt J. KNOPP, 70

Last rites for Matt J. KNOPP, father of Mrs. Leonard GREENFIELD, Fairfield, will be held Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Joseph Catholic church in East Pleasant Plain with Rev. Father Paul C. Wetzstein in charge.

Mr. KNOPP, 70, passed away Friday evening about 8:30 at his home in Fairmont, Minnesota, after an illness of several months. He was a former resident of East Pleasant Plain.

The Rosary will be recited this evening at 8:00 p.m. at the Weston Behner funeral home. Rev. Father H. M. Thoman will read mass.

Mr. KNOPP was born April 14, 1876, in Germany. He had been a resident of this county for many years.

Besides his wife (?), he is survived by the following children, Mrs. GREENFIELD, Fairfield; Mrs. Pauline MAHAFFEY (sic - who was formerly married to Frank BANACH), Ottumwa; Mrs. Bernice MACKINNON, Cincinnati; Mrs. Angeline SCHOO, also of Cincinnati; Clarence KNOPP, Fairmont, Minnesota; and Leonard KNOPP, serving in the U. S. Maritime Service.

Mr. KNOPP is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Joe FRANZEN, Washington, Iowa, and three grandchildren. Two sons preceded him in death.

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Note: Burial was in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, East Pleasant Plain. If he is survived by a wife, then he married a second time. Mary Josephine BISKEY, to whom he was married, died in 1929.