Schipper, Lee W. 1925-1995

SCHIPPER, MCCAMMOND, ORBAN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 10/21/2008 at 19:27:32

LEE W. SCHIPPER

LE MARS, Iowa—Lee W. Schipper, 69, of LeMars, died Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1995, at Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars after an extended illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. James Catholic Church in LeMars with Monsignor Michael D. Sernett and Monsignor A.W. Behrens concelebrating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in LeMars with military rites conducted by Wasmer Post 241, American Legion. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Thursday, with rosary at 4 p.m. and a Scriptural prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at the Feuerstein Funeral Home in LeMars.

Mr. Schipper was born May 17, 1925, in LeMars, the son of Wayne and Opal (McCammond) Schipper. He married Kathryn Orban, Nov. 29, 1944, at St. James Catholic Church in LeMars. He worked most of his life as a tinner and plumber as well as a police officer for the city of LeMars. He retired in 1971 with 25 years of service in the U.S. Navy and Iowa National Guard. He retired as a first sergeant E-8 from the Guard. He served in World War II amphibious landings with U.S. Navy and in the Vietnam War with the Army Guard. He received numerous awards and decorations.

He worked for many years with the Disabled American Veterans and Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. He had 28 years of service with the LeMars Fire Department, retiring in April 1982, having served as secretary/treasurer for many years. He was also appointed the first advisor to the Auxiliary Fire Department in 1965. He had 22 years of service with the LeMars Police Department, retiring in December 1983. He was the first police officer promoted to sergeant in the middle 1950s.

Mr. Schipper was a member of St. James Catholic Church in LeMars; member and past sergeant at arms of Wasmer Post 241, American Legion; Non Commissioned Officers Association; Iowa Firemen’s Association; Police Association and Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie 1381 of LeMars.

Survivors include his wife; five daughters and three sons-in-law, Sharon and Dean Boettger of Marshalltown, Linda and Nick Nemmers of LeMars, Diane Schipper of Sioux City, Deb and Brian Hettwer of LeMars, and Shelly Schipper of Sioux City; two sons and their wives, Wayne and Marleen Schipper and Merlin and Catherine Schipper, all of LeMars; 18 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a brother and his wife, Wendell and Patty Schipper of Eloy, Ariz., and a sister and her husband, Karen and Ronald Breuer of LeMars.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Glenn Schipper.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal; part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection