Therma Florence Kiepe 1924 - 2007
KIEPE, MAHLER, KUNZE
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/9/2019 at 09:07:02
Sioux City Journal
27 February 2007UTE, Iowa -- Therma F. Kiepe, 83, of Ute passed away Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007, at St. Luke Lutheran Home in Spencer, Iowa.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ute, with the Rev. Edward Brandt officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Ute.
Therma Florence Kiepe, the daughter of Henry Peter and Alma Marie (Mahler) Kunze, was born Jan. 8, 1924, in Ute, Monona County, Iowa. She was baptized Feb. 10, 1924 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ute by the Rev. Krag. She was confirmed in the Lutheran faith April 3, 1944, at St. Paul's by the Rev. Hugo Nieting. She attended grade school at Ute Public School, eighth grade at St. Paul's Parochial School and graduated from Ute High School in 1942. She attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, and taught at the Mordhorst School for two years.
She was united in marriage to Sgt. Martin C. Kiepe on Sept. 3, 1944, by the Rev. Hugo Nieting. They lived at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, where Martin was stationed. She was employed in the administrative building as a clerk typist. They returned to Ute after World War II ended. Martin died Nov. 9, 1986. Five children were born to this union.
She was a catechism, Sunday School and Bible class teacher for many years. She did substitute teaching in the Ute Public School, Charter Oak-Ute Consolidated School, Mapleton and Soldier, Iowa, schools. She had been an assistant girls 4-H leader to Jenette Johnson, assistant city clerk to Helene Mordhorst and was appointed bicentennial chairwoman for the town of Ute by mayor Archie Mahoney. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, the church choir, Lutheran Women's Missionary League, Lydia Circle and the adult Bible class at St. Paul's. She also was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Aaby Unit 442 of Ute and Ute Senior Citizens.
Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Diane and Myron Riddle of Kearney, Neb., and Donna and Tom Waterbury of Alton, Iowa; three sons and their wives, Terry and Diane Kiepe and Donny and Trish Kiepe, all of Spencer, Iowa, and Troy and Mindy Kiepe of Royal, Iowa; eight grandchildren, Renae and her husband, Dave Zimmer of Kearney, Neb., Ryan Riddle of New Orleans, La., Shawn Zenor and Laurie of Volcano, Hawaii, Shannon and her husband, John Jensen of Iowa Falls, Iowa, Steven Zenor and his wife, Brenda of Alton, Iowa, Katie and Lexie Kiepe and Marty Kiepe of Spencer, Iowa; stepgrandchildren, Destiny, Felicity and Dakota of Royal, Iowa; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers and their wives, Wilbur and Helen Kunze of Mapleton, Iowa, and Henry and Coreen Kunze of McMinnville, Ore.; three sisters, Ardis Behen of Gardena, Calif., Helen Stanzyk of Carroll, Iowa, and Patricia and her husband, Marvin Rude of Morris, Ill.; a brother-in-law and his wife, Ervin and Kathy Kiepe of
Ute; a sister-in-law, Arlene Kiepe of Mapleton, Iowa; and many nieces nephews, friends and neighbors.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband's parents; her husband; two brothers; four brothers-in-law; two sisters-in-law; an infant niece; and two nephews.
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