Obituary

  Halbur - Lawrence Frank Neppl, 51, a longtime member of the Halbur City Council and Halbur Fire Department and a self-employed trucker, died Saturday, March 13, at Omaha.
  Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, at St. Augustine church with the Rev. Leo Riesberg as celebrant. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be LeRoy Heinrichs, Bill Heinrichs, Jim Heinrichs, Gene Tiefenthaler, Rollin Tiefenthaler and Joe Schumacher. Members of the Halbur Fire Department will be honorary bearers. Members of Ehlers-Gerken Post No.694, American Legion, will form an honor guard.
  Dr. Karl Eischeid, Carroll, will be lector for the rites. Gift-bearers will be aunts, Sisters Lavina Neppl, Carroll, and Bernyne Stark, LaCrosse, Wis.
  Friends may call at the Twit Funeral Home in Carroll starting at 2:30 p.m. Monday.
  Rosaries will be recited at 3 and 8 p.m. by the parish and Knights of Columbus of Carroll, a prayer service will be conducted by the sisters of the area at 4:30 p.m., and a scriptural prayer service will be held at 8:45 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
  Mr. Neppl is survived by his wife Mary Ann; daughters Mrs. Daniel M. (Jane) Snyder, Carroll, and Jeanne, at home; son Patrick Neppl, Des Moines; mother Mrs. Anna Neppl, Halbur, and a sister Mrs. John (Alice) Eischeid, Carroll.
  He was preceded in death by a daughter Anne Marie and his father Albert Neppl.
  Mr. Neppl was born August 25, 1930, at Carroll, a son of Albert and Anna Renze Neppl. He spent all his life at Halbur. He was married to Mary Ann Stark on February 14, 1955, at the former St. Joseph church in Carroll by the late Rev. Msgr. Patrick T. Lynch.
  He served in the U. S. Air Force in Germany and Africa from 1950 to 1954. He was a member of Ehlers-Gerken American Legion Post No. 694, Arcadia, the Carroll Knights of Columbus and was a member of St. Augustine church.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Monday, March 15, 1982, p. 2)