Magdalena Hepper
January 26, 1904 ~ January 27, 2007
Served by: Luce, Luze & Reck Funeral Homes
Magdalena Hepper, 103, of Gettysburg, passed away Saturday, January 27, 2007 at the Oahe Manor in Gettysburg.
Funeral services were held at 1:00p.m., Tuesday, January 30 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Gettysburg with Rev. Mark Moldenhauer presiding. Burial was in the Gettysburg Cemetery under the direction of Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg. Visitation was two hours prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.
Magdalena (Bieber) Hepper was born January 26, 1904, to Christian and Rosina (Huber) Bieber on their homestead a few miles north of the Potter County line in Walworth Co. Their post office address was Bangor, SD. That post office was closed in 1909. She was the last surviving in a family of 10 children and probably one of the last in this part of the country to be born in a sod house. Maggie attended rural school and spent her girlhood helping her widowed mother with farm and family.
On December 4, 1922, she married Jacob Hepper in Selby, SD and they lived in Lowry, SD, where Jake operated a pool hall, a threshing crew and farmed. His small daughter, Esther, was raised as her own along with their four girls and five boys. In 1942 they bought a farm in Lincoln Township, north of Gettysburg where they lived until 1955. At that time Jake, Maggie and their younger children moved to 305 E. Commercial Avenue in Gettysburg. Jake died in 1977, but Maggie stayed on in her home although she spent lots of time with her daughters in Sioux Falls. She entered the Assisted Living in 1998 and the Oahe Manor in 2004.
Maggie was a homebody and a good homemaker. She was generous with her many baked goods, sharing them with family and friends. Grandma’s house was the gathering place for good food, cards and conversation. She was an accomplished seamstress and turned out beautiful outfits from scraps and make-overs for her children and grandchildren. During the past year she finally laid down her crochet hook with which she had made literally hundreds of beautiful articles to give to those who visited her. She loved music and was a faithful reader of the scriptures, often sharing a spiritual thought with her visitors.
Maggie was honored on her 100th birthday on January 26, 2004 at the Oahe Manor with a large crowd of family and friends in attendance.
She slipped from this life to meet her parents, brothers and sisters, her husband, two daughters: Esther Knecht and Ruth Nagel; a son, Herbert Hepper and an infant son, William; one granddaughter and five great grandchildren.
She will be fondly remembered by her remaining children, daughters Hazel Nagel of Gettysburg, Patricia (Elwood) Moore of Sioux Falls and Joyce (Paul) Scheller, and sons James (Edith) Hepper of Tolstoy, Clyde Hepper of Gettysburg, Arthur Hepper of Onida, Donald (Sandra) Hepper of Onida and their families which include 23 grandchildren, 45 great grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 1:00p.m., Tuesday, January 30 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Gettysburg with Rev. Mark Moldenhauer presiding. Burial was in the Gettysburg Cemetery under the direction of Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg. Visitation was two hours prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.
Magdalena (Bieber) Hepper was born January 26, 1904, to Christian and Rosina (Huber) Bieber on their homestead a few miles north of the Potter County line in Walworth Co. Their post office address was Bangor, SD. That post office was closed in 1909. She was the last surviving in a family of 10 children and probably one of the last in this part of the country to be born in a sod house. Maggie attended rural school and spent her girlhood helping her widowed mother with farm and family.
On December 4, 1922, she married Jacob Hepper in Selby, SD and they lived in Lowry, SD, where Jake operated a pool hall, a threshing crew and farmed. His small daughter, Esther, was raised as her own along with their four girls and five boys. In 1942 they bought a farm in Lincoln Township, north of Gettysburg where they lived until 1955. At that time Jake, Maggie and their younger children moved to 305 E. Commercial Avenue in Gettysburg. Jake died in 1977, but Maggie stayed on in her home although she spent lots of time with her daughters in Sioux Falls. She entered the Assisted Living in 1998 and the Oahe Manor in 2004.
Maggie was a homebody and a good homemaker. She was generous with her many baked goods, sharing them with family and friends. Grandma’s house was the gathering place for good food, cards and conversation. She was an accomplished seamstress and turned out beautiful outfits from scraps and make-overs for her children and grandchildren. During the past year she finally laid down her crochet hook with which she had made literally hundreds of beautiful articles to give to those who visited her. She loved music and was a faithful reader of the scriptures, often sharing a spiritual thought with her visitors.
Maggie was honored on her 100th birthday on January 26, 2004 at the Oahe Manor with a large crowd of family and friends in attendance.
She slipped from this life to meet her parents, brothers and sisters, her husband, two daughters: Esther Knecht and Ruth Nagel; a son, Herbert Hepper and an infant son, William; one granddaughter and five great grandchildren.
She will be fondly remembered by her remaining children, daughters Hazel Nagel of Gettysburg, Patricia (Elwood) Moore of Sioux Falls and Joyce (Paul) Scheller, and sons James (Edith) Hepper of Tolstoy, Clyde Hepper of Gettysburg, Arthur Hepper of Onida, Donald (Sandra) Hepper of Onida and their families which include 23 grandchildren, 45 great grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
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