Individual Details
Leona Poepping
(April 26, 1918 - November 26, 2008)
Leona T. Kessler, 90
Sauk Rapids, April 26, 1918 - Nov. 26, 2008
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids for Leona T. Kessler, age 90, of Sauk Rapids who died Wednesday at Country Manor Health Care Center in Sartell. The Rev. Ronald Weyrens will officiate and burial will be at the Danish Cemetery in Santiago. Friends may call from 4-9 p.m. Monday at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids and one hour prior to the services Tuesday at the church in Sauk Rapids. 40 & 8 will pray at 5:30 followed by Sacred Heart Christian Mothers (St. Monicas Society) at 6:00 p.m., Sauk Rapids American Legion Auxiliary Post # 254 at 6:30 p.m., and Sacred Heart parish prayers at 7:00 p.m. all Monday at the funeral home.
Leona was born April 26, 1918 in Lastrup to Henry & Rose (Pflipsen) Poepping. She married Tony Kessler on November 25, 1939 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids. They lived in St. Paul and moved to Sauk Rapids in 1959. Leona was a homemaker and worked for Coborns until her retirement in 1971. She is a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids and a member of Sacred Heart Christian Mothers (St. Monicas Society), Sauk Rapids American Legion Auxiliary Post # 254, Military Order of Cooties Aux, and 40&8 Auxiliary.
Survivors include her children, Thomas (Patricia) of Kennewick, WA, Kathleen (David) Peterson of Farmington, Rose Lynn (Norman) Suchy of Grove City, Robert (Kathy) Kessler of Brooton; sisters and brothers, Ione Tolefson of Hoyt Lakes, Loretta Scherer of Battle Lake, Joe Poepping of Sauk Rapids, Roselynn Bloch of Sauk Rapids, Dominic Poepping of Fond du Lac, WI; 16 grandchildren and many great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Tony; brothers, Walter, Victor, Edmund; sisters, Lou Ann and Mary. Obituary and Guest Book available online at: www.williamsdingmann.com
Sauk Rapids, April 26, 1918 - Nov. 26, 2008
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids for Leona T. Kessler, age 90, of Sauk Rapids who died Wednesday at Country Manor Health Care Center in Sartell. The Rev. Ronald Weyrens will officiate and burial will be at the Danish Cemetery in Santiago. Friends may call from 4-9 p.m. Monday at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids and one hour prior to the services Tuesday at the church in Sauk Rapids. 40 & 8 will pray at 5:30 followed by Sacred Heart Christian Mothers (St. Monicas Society) at 6:00 p.m., Sauk Rapids American Legion Auxiliary Post # 254 at 6:30 p.m., and Sacred Heart parish prayers at 7:00 p.m. all Monday at the funeral home.
Leona was born April 26, 1918 in Lastrup to Henry & Rose (Pflipsen) Poepping. She married Tony Kessler on November 25, 1939 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids. They lived in St. Paul and moved to Sauk Rapids in 1959. Leona was a homemaker and worked for Coborns until her retirement in 1971. She is a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sauk Rapids and a member of Sacred Heart Christian Mothers (St. Monicas Society), Sauk Rapids American Legion Auxiliary Post # 254, Military Order of Cooties Aux, and 40&8 Auxiliary.
Survivors include her children, Thomas (Patricia) of Kennewick, WA, Kathleen (David) Peterson of Farmington, Rose Lynn (Norman) Suchy of Grove City, Robert (Kathy) Kessler of Brooton; sisters and brothers, Ione Tolefson of Hoyt Lakes, Loretta Scherer of Battle Lake, Joe Poepping of Sauk Rapids, Roselynn Bloch of Sauk Rapids, Dominic Poepping of Fond du Lac, WI; 16 grandchildren and many great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Tony; brothers, Walter, Victor, Edmund; sisters, Lou Ann and Mary. Obituary and Guest Book available online at: www.williamsdingmann.com
Events
| Birth | April 26, 1918 | Lastrup, MN | |||
| Marriage | November 25, 1939 | Sauk Rapids, MN - Anthony Kessler | |||
| Death | November 26, 2008 | Sauk Rapids, MN |
Families
| Spouse | Anthony Kessler (1912 - 1989) |
| Father | Henry Poepping (1886 - 1937) |
| Mother | Rose Pflipsen (1893 - ) |
| Sibling | Victor Poepping (1915 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Edmond G. Poepping (1917 - 2004) |
| Sibling | Walter Poepping (1919 - 1977) |
| Sibling | Dominic Johannes Victor Poepping |
| Sibling | Iona Poepping |
| Sibling | Loretta Poepping |
| Sibling | Roselyn Poepping |
| Sibling | Joseph Poepping |
| Sibling | Nick Poepping |
| Sibling | LuAnn Poepping (1931 - ) |
| Sibling | Marie Poepping (1933 - ) |