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Note: Gus Zippel Rites Are Held Sunday OCONTO FALLS -- Augustus G. (Gus) Zippel, 70, a resident of the Oconto Falls area most of his life, passed away at the Pel-Bar Nursing Home on Thursday after a lengthy illness. Mr. Zippel was born October 11, 1897 in the town of Oconto Falls, the son of August and Mary Zippel. On June 11, 1919 he was united in marriage to the former Verna Regal, who preceded him in death. To this union two children were born. The Zippel family was engaged in farming until 1951 when Mr. Zippel was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge #190 in Oconto. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife and one brother. Survivors are the one daughter, Mrs. Keith (Mary Ellen) Katsfey, (sic) of Tacoma, Washington and one son, Ervin of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. He is further survived by one brother, J. Spies Zippel of Oconto plus six grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Sunday at 2 P.M. from the Soulek Funeral Home in Oconto Falls with the Rev. Dale Jennings officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Oconto. --undated clipping from unknown newspaper, Regal Scrapbook ________________________________________________________________________ __ ___ In 1951 en route between pea fields Dad's canning factory truck was struck by a gravel truck fully loaded going downhill. He wasn't expected to live. After many operations and two years in the hospital, he came home, a semi-paraplegic. Shortly afterward my Mother who had been putting off an operation to see him through, went into the hospital and died (1953). For years after that he lived with my Mother's half-sister, Audrey Temple-Kasten. The insurance paid her to nurse him and the money helped some of my cousins get to school. Note: Mary Ellen Zippel
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