Ralph 'Slim' Lippelgoes

LIPPELGOES, BRIDGE

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 5/16/2009 at 02:43:29

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal Dec. 18, 2000
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Ralph 'Slim' Lippelgoes of 1046F Ripley Court, 88, died Saturday, Dec. 16, 2000, at his home after an extended illness.

Services will be at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. The Rev. Leif Pohl will officiate. Pallbearers will be Rodney Lippelgoes, Randy Lippelgoes, Theron Nealson, David Smith, Jim Smith, and Jay Nealson. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Grace Lutheran Church.

He was born on May 14, 1912, in Muscatine, the son of Theodore and Laura Murfin Lippelgoes. He married Gertrude Bridge on Sept. 6, 1939 in Muscatine.

He was an automotive mechanic for over 50 years, retiring from Krieger Motor Company in Muscatine. He loved gardening, and feeding wild birds and squirrels, and in his younger years he enjoyed racing midget cars.

He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, a past member of the Moose Lodge and a past member of the Power Boat Club.

He is survived by his wife, Gertrude, of Muscatine; one son, La Vern Lippelgoes and his wife, Virginia, of Muscatine; one daughter, Judie Nealson and her husband, Dave, of Lone Tree; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Donna Griffith of Cape Coral, Fla.; and a niece, Juanita Bierman of Muscatine.