Jean Ann Nepper 1948 - 2019
NEPPER, SHREEVES, HALVERSON
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 1/31/2020 at 10:32:26
Mapleton Press
24 October 2019Jean A. Nepper, 70, of Ute, passed away on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, at the Maple Heights Nursing Home of Mapleton.
Visitation: 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 17, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Ute.
Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 18, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Ute.
Officiating: Pastor Nathan Peitsch.
Committal Service: St. Clair Township Cemetery of Ute.
Jean Ann Nepper was born Nov. 22, 1948, in Ute, the daughter of Donald and Helen (Shreeves) Halverson.
Jean was baptized in Christ on May 22, 1949, at the Soldier Lutheran Church of Soldier and was confirmed in the same church. This was the original Lutheran Church on the corner in town. She loved this church, and it held so many precious memories.
Jean received her education at Soldier Public School until it consolidated with Moorhead. She finished the rest of her education at East Monona Public School located in Moorhead. Jean graduated with the Class of 1967 and reminisced on how much fun she had. She treasured spending time with her classmates and had friends in all grades. Her fondest memories were of playing basketball. During her school years, she participated in basketball, softball, and track.
After working a short time at Mutual of Omaha, Jean moved back to Soldier and married Curtiss Hugh Nepper. After Curtiss was finished serving his country, Jean and Curtiss made their home in Ute.
Jean met Curtiss while washing her dad’s car in the driveway when she was 14 years old, and when Curtiss drove by, they both knew right away that they were meant for each other. She always enjoyed telling this story on how they first met (with a twinkle and a giggle).
Jean will be remembered as a person who treasured her entire family. She enjoyed watching all three of her children in sports and music. In later years, she enjoyed watching her grandchildren participate in their activities.
In her younger years, Jean loved getting together with her mother and two sisters. They would always get together for coffee and giggles. Their mother, Helen, had quite the sense of humor when she was with her daughters. They shopped with a passion as most sisters and their mothers do, and laughed when perhaps they shouldn’t.
When Curtiss served his country in Vietnam, Jean spent every minute of the day writing to him and praying to the Lord for his safe return. Her favorite thing was to read books to her children when they were toddlers. She would read to them every evening until they had every book almost memorized.
Jean loved to garden, cook, and bake. Jean especially enjoyed helping Curtiss when he needed a farmhand. Some of the jobs he gave her were not the best, but she did them. He taught her how to get her hands dirty, which was quite a job since, originally, she was not a farm girl. Jean also helped her friends with fundraisers to build a tennis court for the town of Ute. She had strong faith and was a member of the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Ute.
Those left to cherish her memory include her husband, Curtiss Nepper of Ute; sons, Justin (Jill) Nepper of Urbandale and Gentry Nepper of Grimes; daughter, Tawny (Heath) Nepper Langenfeld of Grimes. Jean’s life was blessed with six grandchildren who were so special to her – Sydney, Lauren, Taylor, Lily, Pace, and Kai. Jean claimed she behaved her best when around her grandchildren, although her adult children will tell you something quite different. She also leaves behind her sisters, Nancy (Gary) Carlson of Lake Ozark, Mo., and Carole (Don) Thoreson of Ankeny; sister-in-law, Joyce (Bob) Halverson; many nieces, nephews, other relatives, and treasured friends.
She was preceded in death by brother, Bob Halverson, who was a good brother, and Jean always considered him her “pal;” her parents, Donald and Helen Halverson (Jean always called her mother and father the most beautiful and caring people); and another favorite of Jean’s, her Uncle Clare, who taught Jean a lot about history before he passed away at age 63. Jean always said listening to Clare’s stories about the war prepared her for what her husband, Curtiss, would go through.
Arrangements by Armstrong-Van Houten Funeral Home of Ute.
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