KUPER, Melba Edna (nee Bruesewitz)(Benker) 1920-2009

BRUESEWITZ, BENKER, KUPER, HECKSTEIN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/13/2009 at 19:07:34

OSAGE, IOWA - Melba Edna (Bruesewitz) (Benker) Kuper, age 88, of Osage died Sunday (May 10, 2009) at Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 15, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage with the Rev. Dennis Hanson and the Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Burial will be at the Grafton Cemetery.

Visitation is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage.

Melba was born June 30, 1920, at Ottertail, Minnesota, to William and Ella (Heckstein) Bruesewitz. She grew up in the Grafton area and attended Grafton schools. Melba married August Benker of Blue Hill, Nebraska, on September 5, 1943. He died in 1982.

She then married Jerry Kuper of Osage on Sept. 10, 1987. He died in 1999.

Survivors include her two daughters, Phyllis Brandau of Osage, and Shirley (Charles) Bentley of Waterloo; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; two brothers, Earl (Dora) Bruesewitz of Osage, and Don (Rose) Bruesewitz of Mesa, Ariz.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, August Benker; her second husband, Jerry Kuper; a brother, Elmer Bruesewitz; and a great-great-granddaughter, Bryanna.
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, 641-732-3706.

[Published in the Globe Gazette -- 5/13/2009]

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