MARTIN PIEPENBROK

JACKSON -- Funeral for Martin E. Piepenbrok of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Emanuel United Church of Christ. The Revs. Sam Roethemeyer and Richard Northcutt will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today.

Piepenbrok, 80, died Thursday, April 6, 2000, at his home.

He was born Nov. 18, 1919, in Weimar, Texas, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Piepenbrok. He and Verla Seabaugh were married June 14, 1941. She died March 22, 1983. He and Janet M. Baker were married Sept. 8, 1984.

Piepenbrok was a 1937 graduate of Jackson High School, attended Southeast Missouri State University and Masey Business School in Houston, Texas.

He had worked at International Harvester Co. in Houston, Jackson Lumber Co., was agency manager of Cape County Farm Bureau Insurance and retired from Monroe Glass Co. in 1981. He was also an agent with Time and Heartland Realty in Jackson.

Piepenbrok served as alderman on Jackson City Council four years. He was a member of Emanuel United Church of Christ and Altenthal-Joerns American Legion Post 158, charter member of Bootheel Retriever Club and former member and past president of Jackson Optimist Club.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jack Piepenbrok of Jackson; a daughter, Jill Mackey of Jackson; two stepchildren, Jari Southard of Jackson, Col. Bradley Baker of Scott Air Force Base, Ill.; a sister, Mildred Boring of Navasota, Texas; three grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; four stepgrandchildren; and two great-stepgrandsons.

He was preceded in death by two brothers.