VERNON L. PIIPKE

COBDEN, Ill. -- Vernon Lee Piipke, 50, of Cobden died Monday, Oct. 21, 1996, at Marion Memorial Hospital.

He was born Aug. 31, 1946, in Willmar, Minn., the son of Theodore Lewis and Ethel Mae Irwin Piipke. He married Elizabeth M. Pitcher.

Piipke was a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church and a retired laborer.

Survivors include his wife; his mother of Corpus Christi, Texas; a daughter, Linda Lee Piipke of Cobden; two sisters, Rose Marie Aldridge of Cobden and Ella May Perry of Corpus Christi; and five brothers, Edwin Henry Piipke of Duluth, Minn., Dean Elwood Piipke of Willmar, Harold Wayne Piipke and Bruce William Piipke, both of Minneapolis, and Elroy Irwin Piipke of Mora, Minn.

Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Lutz & Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.

The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Howard Strunk officiating. Burial will follow in Kelley Cemetery.