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Note: CHARLES P.(sic) ZIPPEL contributor: Dorothy Hagemann 1933 RESIDENT OCONTO 56 YEARS, DEAD On Saturday afternoon at 2:40 o'clock death claimed Charles Frederick Zippel, 83, at the Oconto hospital with uremic poisoning. Funeral services were conducted at the home, South Bay Shore, at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Hofmann of Marinette, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical church of this city, officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery. The pallbearers were six nephews: Albert and Augustus Zipple, Gillett; Spies Zipple, city, Richard Wedgwood, Little Suamico, Oliver Simons, Menominee, Mich., and Harry Bell of Iron Mountain, Mich. Charles Zippel was born Sept. 17, 1848 in Germany. He came to this country in the year 1866 and settled in Oconto one year later. A wife and two children, Mrs. A. H. (Myrtle) Zippel (sic) of Milwaukee, and Curtis, at home; and a brother, August Zippel, of Gillett are the survivors. The out-of-town people attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Wedgwood, Richard Wedgwood, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Huss, Mrs. Anna Dudy, Wm. and Miss Martha Grosst (sic);, Little Suamico; Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Zippel, Mr. .and Mrs. Albert Zippel, daughter, Ellen, and son, Carl, and August Zippel, Gillett; Mr. and Mrs. John Simon, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bell, Mrs. Earl Bells and Parnel Simon of Iron Mountain, Mich.; Oliver Simon, Menominee, Mich.; Mrs, Emma Dudy, Norway, Mich.; Mrs. Alfred Zepherin and son, Roy, Mrs. Mort Chatell, Mrs. M. A. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Swain, all from Milwaukee. ________________________________________________________________________ __ ___ Note: Uncle Charlie came over from the old country first among the brothers and one cousin, Wilhelm (Bill). As his father was a fisherman, he took up the trade on Green Bay catching various fish in season. I remember what seemed to me vast nets of herring lifted from the lake. His last and best boat was called "The Myrtle Z." in honor of his daughter. He and Aunt Emma, who was much younger than he, had a "Victorian Lady" home on the the South Shore, just south of Oconto. We would go there for picnics and lazy Sunday afternoons of swimming in the warm Green Bay water. There was a shelf just off their land which made shallow, warm water. It seemed one could walk out for a half an acre before it got over an adult's waist. Later Uncle Charlie gave to Oconto City (or County) what became the Oconto Park just south of his home. The last time I saw it it was fenced and somewhat tawdry; but it had been grand with a band stand and Sunday band concerts. Uncle Charlie looked very much like Everett Zippel looks, high cheek bones, piercing eyes and a sort of nose with a low bridge and prominent tip, a "ski-jump" nose. He was very gentle and calm; I thought of him as the Alm-Uncle in the book HEIDE. His immigration papers, at least some of them, call him Karl, the German "Charles".
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