Halweg, Sophia C. 1905-2002

HALWEG, RIPPKE, HANSEN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/11/2008 at 14:05:10

Sophia C. Halweg, 97, of Tama, Iowa, formerly of Sioux City, died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2002, at Sunny Hill Care Center in Tama.

Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Calvary Lutheran Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. David Schoop officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, rural Hinton, Iowa. There will be no visitation. Arrangements are under the direction of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mrs. Halweg was born April 16, 1905, on a farm south of Moville, Iowa, the daughter of Otto and Margretta (Hansen) Rippke.

She married George Ludwig on Nov. 26, 1930, in Elk Point, S.D. He died in 1955. She married Louis R. Halweg on Nov. 23, 1968, in Sioux City. He died in 1989.

She lived in Sioux City from 1944 to 1997. She then lived in George, Iowa, for two years, and had lived in Tama for the last two years.

She was a longtime member of Calvary Lutheran Church, where she taught Sunday school for 39 years and was a member of two of the church circles. She was a member of the Senior Citizens Golden Age Club, the Scandinavian Society and Glitne Sioux Viking Lodge 167.

Survivors include two daughters, Dorothy Tool of Toldedo, Iowa, and Margaret Shay of Cedar Falls, Iowa; three stepdaughters, Darlene Jeppson of Bancroft, Iowa, Dorothy Sorensen of Lawton, Iowa, and Janet Penning of Grandville, Iowa; a son-in-law, Harley Behrens and his wife, Miriam of George, Iowa; a brother and his wife, Alvin and Marion Rippke of Moville; a sister and her husband, Margaret and Ralph Byers of Moville; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; and two sisters-in-law, Clara Rippke of Moville, and Lucille Rippke of Lawton, Iowa.

She also was preceded in death by a son, Merlin; a daughter, Loretta Behrens; a grandson, Douglas Shay; two sisters, Tena Zellmer and Pauline Pederson; three brothers, Otto, Leonard and Wilbur Rippke; a stepson, Leonard Halweg; and her parents.

Pallbearers will be Paul, Neil and Steve Rippke, Kevin and Clark Byers and Mervin Zellmer.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, Oct. 22, 2002--part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection