Audrey B. Rippke 1926-1995

RIPPKE THIESEN CRAWFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/19/2011 at 17:15:35

Sioux City Journal
6 March 1995

Moville, Iowa—Audrey B. Rippke, 68, of Moville, died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at a Sioux City hospital of pancreatic cancer.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moville with the Rev. Michael A. Kroona officiating. Burial will be in Arlington Township Cemetery, Moville. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 9 p.m. at McCulloch Funeral Home, Moville.

Mrs. Rippke was born November 9, 1926, in Moville, the daughter of Lyle and Leona (Thiesen) Crawford. She graduated from Moville High School in 1944 and attended the former National Business Training School in Sioux City. She married Wilbur F Rippke January 6, 1950, at the Lutheran parsonage in Moville. She lived all her life in Moville except for five years when she lived in Sioux City.

Mrs. Rippke was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Moville where she was a member of the Ladies Circle. She was a 4-H leader for several years, was active with the Woodbury County Fair and was active in crafts.

Survivors include her husband, two daughters, Susan Rippke of Omaha and LuAnn and her husband, Tim Reinders of Des Moines, two sons and their wives, Glen and Sheryl Rippke of Ames and Steven and Lisa Rippke of Moville; six grandchildren, Melissa and Michaela Rippke, Allison, Emily and Joseph Rippke and Caitlyn Reinders; her father, Lyle Crawford of Moville, two brothers, Kendall Crawford of Moville and Gerald Crawford of Ponca, Nebraska; five sisters, Vera Sterrett of Marcus, Phyllis Anderson of Moville, Doris Mortensen of Remsen, Kathryn Smith of Moville and Shirley Kurasz of Lawton.