Leonard Albert Rippke 1917-1996

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/19/2011 at 20:52:09

Sioux City Journal
15 November 1996

Moville, Iowa—Leonard Albert Rippke, 79, of Moville died Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at his residents following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Morningside Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Donohue Sarff and Rev. Marvin Mueller officiating. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Arlington Township Cemetery in Moville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. at the McCulloch Funeral Home in Moville.

Mr. Rippke was born January 31, 1917, in Moville, the son of Otto and Margretha Rippke. He attended rural school in Moville Township. He married Clara Rock on June 11, 1946, rural Correctionville, Iowa. He was a member of the U.S. Army as a flight traffic clerk. He was a life-long farmer.

Mr. Rippke was a member of the Morningside Lutheran Church. He served on the county Farm Bureau board and as a Moville Township trustee.

Survivors include his wife of Moville; two daughters, Mary Rippke of Spirit Lake, Iowa and Lenise and her husband Rick Waples of Omaha, Nebr.; two sons and their wives, Jon and Cheryl of Mankato, Minn. And Paul and Carolyn of Moville; three sisters, Sophis Halweg of Sioux City, Pauline Pederson of Kingsley, Iowa and Margaret and her husband Ralph Byers of Moville; two brothers, Wilbur of Sioux City and Alvin and his wife Marion of Moville; seven grandchildren, Laura, Sarah, Philip, Anne and Mark Rippke, Gregory and Thomas Waples; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Otto; one sister, Kathrine and two infant sisters.

Pallbearers will be Steve Rippke, Harley Behrens, Rick Weidner, Arnold Zellmer and Duane Hopp.