Tekippe, Gracie died 1972

TEKIPPE, SMITH, SOUKUP, NIENHAUS, LAHEY

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/7/2016 at 10:04:20

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Wed., 12 Apr. 1972.

Ft. Atkinson- Mrs. Alois (Gracie) Tekippe, 75, of Ft. Atkinson, died Tuesday afternoon in Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital, Decorah, Ia.

Mrs. Tekippe had been, until dial service, a telephone operator for over 20 years with the local telephone company.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. John's Catholic Church here, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Chekal Funeral Home here, where the Rosary will be said at 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.

Surviving besides her husband are three sons, Benedict of Rickardsville, Ia., Francis of Dubuque, Ia., and Joseph of Sherrill, Ia.; two daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Ellen) Soukup of Ridgeway, Ia., and Mrs. Ray (Rose Ann) Nienhaus of Ft. Atkinson; 36 grandchildren; two brothers, Msgr. John Smith of Waterloo, Ia., and Eugene Smith of Whittier, Calif., and two sisters, Angela Smith of Waterloo, and Mrs. Francis (Valeria) Lahey of Rickardsville, Ia.

St. John's Cemetery
 

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