OBITUARIES: Marcella LUNDQUIST-RIEPER, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI

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Marcella Louise (Robarge) Lundquist-Rieper (wife of Ernest Rieper, daughter 
of Edward Robarge and Leah Salome Demers)

Obituary of Marcella (Robarge) Lundquist-Rieper in July 23, 1997 Rice Lake 
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HL: Longtime health care worker died July 19

"Marcella Lundquist-Rieper, 74, of Rice Lake died July 18 at her home.  
Funeral services were this Wednesday morning at St. Joseph's Catholic 
Church in Rice Lake, with Rev. Dave Oberts officiating.  Interment followed 
in the church cemetery.

The former Marcella Robarge was born Sept. 5, 1922 to Edward and Leah 
Robarge in Rice Lake. She grew up in Rice Lake and attended St. Joseph's 
Parochial School and later La Follette Rural School.  On Feb. 26, 1943 she 
married Walter Lundquist in Rice Lake and was a homemaker.  They moved to 
South Carolina and later returned to Rice Lake.  She began working in the 
school lunch program at St. Joseph's School in 1960 and for the next 35 
years worked in the food preparation departments at St. Joseph's Hospital, 
Northland Care and Heritage Manor, retiring in January 1995.  Mr. Lundquist 
died in 1965 and she married Ernest Rieper on Feb. 26, 1969 in Shell Lake.  
He died in 1996.  Mrs. Lundquist-Rieper was skilled in quilting and 
embroidering, and liked to dance and play cards.

Survivors include three daughters, Carolyn Herrick of Madison, Beverly Prock 
of Rice Lake and Arlene Lundquist of Omaha, Neb.; a son, Dean of Tuscon, 
Ariz.; eight grandchildren; two sisters, Madeline Sinclair of Almena and 
Marion Nelson of Beloit; a brother, Donald Robarge of Hayward, Calif.; two 
stepdaughters; six stepsons; and many stepgrandchildren, stepgreat-grand-
children; and one stepgreat-great-grandchild."