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Aielt Lupkes (1891-1946)
Funeral
services were held Saturday Sept. 14. at the St. John Lutheran Church
for Aielt Lupkes with Rev. E.C. Hallstein Officiating.
Aielt
Lupkes was born Feb. 3, 1891 at Ackley, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. O.U.
Lupkes. He came to Wheaton when he was 10 years old.
In
1913 he was married to Elsie Block to which union was born two children,
Bernice and Carl.
Mr.
Lupkes has been prominent in all organizations of the township, he was
director of the Shipping Association and also a member of the Township
Road Board.
His
death occured at 1:10 Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1946. He was preceeded in
death by his mother in 1893 and by his father in 1942.
Besides
his wife and children, Bernice of Long Beach, Calif. and Carl and family
of International Falls he leaves to mourn eleven brothers and sisters.
Pallbearers
were all nephews, Fred U. Lupkes, Melvern Siefert, Fred Lupkes, Albert
Lupkes, Archie Barkhoff and Wayne Lupkes.
Burial
was at the German Lutheran Cemetery Wheaton, Minnesota.
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