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Joyce Pieper

[October 29, 2009]  EMDEN -- Joyce B. Pieper, 78, of Emden, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at 7:35 a.m. at Hopedale Nursing Home, Hopedale.

Visitation will be 3-7 p.m. Friday at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Emden. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the church, with the Rev. Donald Pieper and the Rev. David Russell officiating.

Burial will be in Hartsburg Union Cemetery, Hartsburg

Arrangements are by Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln

Mrs. Pieper taught school in Dubuque County, Iowa; Gavin School District, Fox Lake; and Hartem Elementary School for 20 years. She started the preschool at St. Peter Lutheran and taught 10 years at the preschool before she retired.

She was born May 6, 1931, at Calamus, Iowa, to William and Helen B. Bousselot Grau. She married the Rev. Frank Pieper on June 7, 1952, at Faith Lutheran Church in Calamus, Iowa.

She is survived by her husband, of Emden; three sons, Stephan (and Leeann) Pieper of St. Charles, Frank R. (and Sherry) Pieper of Champaign and the Rev. Donald (and Claudia) Pieper of Port Hadlock, Wash.; two daughters, Cheryl Wink of Sheboygan, Wis., and Elizabeth Pieper of Clearwater, Fla.; six sisters, Darlene Hotopp of Des Moines, Iowa, Mayme Ann Smith of Plano, Texas, Janice Alden of Plano, Texas, Dianna Eggers of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Donna Coon of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Laura Grau of Garland, Texas; six grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and five step-great-grandchildren.

One brother, Lowell, and two sisters preceded her in death.

She was a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church and the Cross and Crown Circle.

She received a two-year elementary teaching degree at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, and received her bachelor's degree in education from Northern Illinois University.

Memorials may be made to St. Peter Lutheran Church.

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