Obituaries:  Reba (Mrs. Bill) Koppen, Sabine Parish       K-150
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 10, 2001
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Reba (Mrs. Bill) Koppen

  Reba (Mrs. Bill) Koppen, 82, died Friday, Dec. 29, 2000, at the
Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn.

  Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 2, at the
Augustana Lutheran Church in Gibbon, Minn., with interment
following at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis,
on Wednesday, Jan. 3.

  Reba was born on February 14, 1918, in Many, to Eugene and Mary
(Knippers) Horn. She attended school in Mount Carmel. On Aug. 21,
1946, she married William Koppen at the Trinity Lutheran Church
Parsonage in Winthrop. They lived all their lives in Gibbon,
where she was a homemaker. Reba was active in many church groups,
and also was a 4-H leader in Sibley County for many years. She
was a member of Augustana Lutheran Church, and a past member of
Legion Auxiliary.

  Survivors include her husband, William "Bill" Koppen of Gibbon,
Minn.; daughters and sons-in-law, Mary and Steve Wilson of West
Lafayette, Ind., and Kristi Koppen and husband Peter Terch of
Coon Rapids; and three grandchildren.

  Koppen was preceded in death by her parents; two grandchildren;
three sisters; and two brothers.