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Personal data Ettje J. (Ettje J. "Etta") "Etta" Rippentrop 


Household of Ettje J. (Ettje J. "Etta") "Etta" Rippentrop

She is married to Jan Evert Sleper.

They got married on November 30, 1910 at German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA (Ramsey Ref. Chr.), she was 17 years old.

Jan E. Sleper oo Ettje J. Rippentrop

Marriage source: Anonymous, Sleper/Rippentrop FGS, (Algona IA, sent by Robert Kent xi Feb MCMXCIII).

Cf.: Leibrand, Ruth, et. al., Celebrate a Century Buffalo Center, Iowa Centennial 1892 - 1992, (Buffalo Center IA, Centennial Book Committee, MCMXCII), pg 216

John & Etta Sleper were married at Ramsey Reformed Chr. <>

Child(ren):

  1. Annie J. Sleper  1912-1989
  2. Margaret Sleper  1914-2002 
  3. Evert John Sleper  1915-2003 
  4. John R. Sleper  1918-1991 
  5. Edna Jeanette Sleper  1920-2013 
  6. Greta Sleper  1923-2010 
  7. Mildred Sleper  1930-2006 


Notes about Ettje J. (Ettje J. "Etta") "Etta" Rippentrop

Ettje J. "Etta" Rippentrop

Source: Anonymous, Sleper/Rippentrop FGS, (Algona IA, sent by Robert Kent xi Feb MCMXCIII).

Sleper T.s., (German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA, Ramsey Reformed Chr. Cem., 1976)

Last SS check sent to Titonka IA

John Evert & Etta Sleper are buried at Ramsey Reformed Chr. Cem.

Rippentrop, Wendy, Rippentrop Family Tree, (Pub. location unknown, worldconnect.rootsweb.com, i Nov MMI)

'... Ettje 'Etta' J. RIPPENTROP ... Sex: F Birth: 10 Oct 1893 Death: Mar 1976 Change Date: 2 Mar 2000 Father: Johann Koerd 'John K' RIPPENTROP ... Mother: Mareka 'Mary' H. WILLEMSSEN ... Marriage 1 John SLEPER'

The farm of John Rippentrop is on the southern edge of German Twp.

1900 German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA census, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

Boyken, Ruth & Hans-Georg, Obituaries from the area around Titonka ... Kossuth County, Iowa Teil i, (Titonka IA, Boyken & Boyken, MMVII) no pagination, ISBN 0-9670802-8-2, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

John Evert SLEPER * 18 July 1884 Emden, Ostfriesland as son of John Evert SLEPER and his wife Anna + 20 July 1971 titonka, IA # 2 August 1971 Ramsey Reformed Church cem. north of German Valley, IA oo 30 November 1910 or 3 November 1910 Etta RIPPENTROP * 10 October 1893 Titonka, IA as daughter of John K. RIPPENTROP and his wife Kareike (Mary) * WILLEMSSEN (not WILLEMSON) + 31 March 1976 Titonka, IA # Ramsey Reformed church cem. north of German Valley, IA Funeral Services Held For Mrs. Etta Sleper, 82

Mrs. Etta Sleper, 82, died Wednesday morning, March 31, at the Titonka Care Center where she had been a resident just the previous week.

Funeral services for Mrs. Sleper were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Ramsey Reformed Church with the Rev. John Janssen officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Winter Funeral Home of Buffalo Center in charge ofarrangements.

Casket bearers were grandsons of Mrs. Sleper.

Born at Titonka on Oct. 10, 1893, Etta Rippentrop was a daughter of John K. and Mary Willemson Rippentrop. She was married to John E. Sleper Nov. 3, 1910 and lived her entire life in Titonka. Mr. Sleper died July 30, 1971.

She is survived by five daughters and two sons; Mrs. Louis (Anna) Boomgarden, German Valley, Ill., Mrs. Henry (Margaret) Stecker of Titonka, Evert and John R. Sleper both of Titonka, Mrs. L.C. (Edna) Balvance and Mrs. Walter (Greta) Aukesof Buffalo Center and Mrs. Mark (Mildred) Miller of Britt. There are 25 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Three sisters also survive; Maggie Boekelman, Johanna Ubben and Gertrude Rike, all of Titonka.

Senus Isebrand of Titonka and Mrs. Johanna Ites of Buffalo Center, step-brother and step-sister, also survive.

Mrs. Sleper was preceded in death by her husband, parents, three brothers and two sisters."

Etta's parents: Johann Koerd. & Mareka H. (Willemssen) Rippentrop <>

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Ettje J. Rippentrop

Ettje J. Rippentrop
1893-1976

1910

Jan Evert Sleper
1884-1971

Annie J. Sleper
1912-1989
Margaret Sleper
1914-2002
Evert John Sleper
1915-2003
John R. Sleper
1918-1991
Edna Jeanette Sleper
1920-2013
Greta Sleper
1923-2010
Mildred Sleper
1930-2006

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Birthday October 10, 1893

  • The temperature on October 10, 1893 was about 11.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
    • February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
    • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
    • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
    • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
    • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Day of marriage November 30, 1910

  • The temperature on November 30, 1910 was between 2.1 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
    • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
    • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
    • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
    • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
    • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

Day of death March 31, 1976

  • The temperature on March 31, 1976 was between 5.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
    • March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
    • April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
    • June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
    • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
    • July 18 » Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
    • October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.


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