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Elsie
Lupkes Funeral Rites Held Sept. 7, 1973
Funeral Services
for Mrs. Elsie Lupkes, 83, a resident of the Wheaton area for 65 years,
were held at 11 a.m. on Sept. 7 at the St. John Lutheran Church with
Rev. W.O. Sprengeler officiating.
Mrs. Lupkes died
on Friday, Sept. 3, after an illness of 2½ years.
Pallbearers were
Lawrence Roy, Lloyd Asplund, John Osterman, Richard Young and William
Zimmerman. Internment was at the St. John Cemetery.
Mrs. Lupkes was born in
Germany, daughter of Minnie and Carl Block. She came to this country with
her parents at the age of 2. In 1911, she came to Traverse County and was
united in marriage to Aielt Lupkes
on September 24, 1913. They farmed near Wheaton until Mr. Lupkes' death
in 1946, when Mrs. Lupkes moved to Wheaton.
She was a member
of the St. John Lutheran Church and a charter member of the Clifton
Study Group.
Survivors include her son
Carl of Seattle, Washington,
three grandchildren, Patricia Spoonamore of Tuscon, Ariz., Stanley
of Seattle, Wash. and Neil of Centralia, Wash, five great grandsons; four sisters,
Mrs. Louise DePriest of Palmer, Alaska, Mrs. Gary (Ida) Koerselman of Mason City,
Iowa, Mrs. D.R. McCleary of Englewood, Florida, and Mrs. Hilda Carkhuff of Englewood,
Florida, and one brother emil Russell of Junction City, Oregon.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, her daughter Bernice
in 1966, her parents and one sister. |