CLERGY
Pastor Aaron Rush
Pastor Bill VanGerpen
MUSIC
Organist ~ Diane Bryan
Congregational Hymns
“In The Garden”
“Rock of Ages”
“Because He Lives”
“Surely Goodness and Mercy”
CASKETBEARERS
Russell Lippert
Glen Jucht
Kevin Jucht
Paul Odland
Peter Odland
Greg Halvorson
John Sievert
Wade TenNapel
Nick Stewart
Nettie Lippert died on Sunday, August 17, 2008, at the Firesteel Healthcare Center in Mitchell, South Dakota, at the age of 90 years, 3 months, and 3 days.
Nettie was born on May 14, 1918, on a farm northeast of Tripp, South Dakota, to Frederich and Emilie (Koth) Mehlhaff. Nettie married Raymond Lippert on March 22, 1938, in Parkston, South Dakota. They farmed northwest of Tripp until 1983, when they moved into town. She was originally a member of Tripp Baptist Church until 1967, when she joined Danzig Baptist Church.
Survivors include four children, Myron Lippert and his friend, Pattie Reif, of Mitchell; Dennis Lippert and his wife, Joyce, of Flower Mound, Texas; Janet Jucht, and her husband, Roger, of Bridgewater, South Dakota; LaRae Odland and her husband, Mark, of Stevensville, Michigan; nine grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren; one brother, Walter Mehlhaff and his wife, Delma, of Hot Springs, South Dakota; and one sister-in-law, Carolyn Mehlhaff of Pheasant, California.
Nettie was preceded in death by Raymond, her husband of sixty years, her parents, five brothers, and two sisters.