Harald Heupel

1919 - 2011  (91 years)

• Name	Harald Heupel
  Born	28 Dec 1919	South Dakota, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Oct 2011	Eureka, McPherson County, South Dakota, USA
  Buried	Eureka Cemetery, McPherson County, South Dakota, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I106614	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	2 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Friedrich Heupel,   b. 18 Sep 1881, Odessa, Ukrayina ,   d. 16 Dec 1941, McPherson County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Christina Knodel,   b. 1892, Odessa, Ukrayina ,   d. McPherson County, South Dakota, USA
  Married	Abt 1911
  Family ID	F46369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Meda Magdalene Meidinger,   b. 4 Jun 1922, Zeeland, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA ,   d. 31 Aug 2016, Eureka, McPherson County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 94 years)
  Married	17 Jul 1949	Ashley, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA
  Children	1. Heupel   2. Heupel   3. Heupel
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F46947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/h/r/David-Alan-Christianson/FILE/0004text.txt HAROLD AND MEDA HEUPEL Harold Heupel, twin son of Fred and Christina (Knodel) Heupel, was born December 28, 1919 in McPherson County. His twin, Arnold, died in 1980. His sisters include Erna Heupel, Irene (Mrs. Reiny) Stotz, Frieda (Mrs. Alvin) Larson, all of Aberdeen, and brother, Dr. Alden Heupel, Fargo. Harold and Meda Heupel Harold was united in marriage to Meda Meidinger at Ashley Reformed Church on July 17, 1949. Meda is one of eleven children born to John R. and Lydia (Meidinger) Meidinger near Zeeland. She was born June 4, 1922. Harold and Meda have three children, Susan, Dennis and Jane. Susan Marie, born May 31, 1950, graduated at the University of South Dakota, majoring in Medical Technology. She married David Price on September 28, 1980 at Minneapolis. David was born November 21, 1944 in Minneapolis. He is self-employed as a management consultant in Minneapolis. Susan is employed at Twin City Testing as a mass spectroscopist in St. Paul. They live at 4011 Monteray Avenue, Edina, Minnesota. Dennis Duane was born October 26, 1952 at Eureka. He married Michelle Mary Dailey, November 29, 1974 at Eureka. Michelle was born September 15, 1956 to John Gordon and Velma Lee (Benedick) Dailey. Dennis and Michelle are graduates of South Dakota State University at Brookings, majoring in mechanized agriculture and textile, clothing and home economics, respectively. Michelle is employed at Eureka Designs. Prior to this employment, she worked at the Eureka Hospital as food supervisor for eight years. After graduating, Dennis returned to Eureka and is farming the Heupel and Son Corporation farm. Living in Eureka in the former "Grandma Straub" house located at 804 I Avenue, which they have extensively remodeled, they have one son, Matthew Harold, born March 11, 1982. Another child is expected in April 1986. Jane Louise, born August 16, 1955, graduated from South Dakota State University with a degree in Botany-Biology. She spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippine Islands and was married to Quirino Blasco, Naga City Camerine Sur, October 3, 1981, in Eureka. She is presently employed by the Florida Department of Agriculture as an agricultural products specialist, division of plant industry. Living at West Palm Beach, Florida, Quirino is employed in the trust department of the 1st American Bank. Harold had various jobs in the Eureka area in his youth: working as mortician's helper for Alex Mehlhaff, co-owner of Kary and Heupel Standard Service with Val Kary, Eureka Drive Inn, located across from the bank on Main and Market Street, co-manager of the Luncheonette with twin brother, Arnold. In the early 1950's Harold bought the Libis farm in Jackson Township, adding more acreage through the years, recently purchasing the adjoining property in Campbell County, raising mostly corn and feed crops for their cattle feeding operation. Harold is now semi-retired. Meda grew up on her parents farm north of Zeeland. After her parents retired to the city of Ashley, Meda stayed on the farm with four brothers for four years before enrolling at Christie's Beauty School at Bismarck, for a course in cosmetology. After graduation in June, 1947, she returned to Ashley and purchased the Ashley Beauty Shop. After her marriage two years later, she moved Meda's Beauty Shop to Eureka and is presently still in operation at 804 Ninth Street.

  
  

• Sources

  [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com). Harold Heupel Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: Dec. 28, 1919 McPherson County South Dakota, USA Death: Oct. 3, 2011 Eureka McPherson County South Dakota, USA Lien Funeral Home, Eureka, South Dakota. Harold Heupel, 91, Eureka, died Monday, October 03, 2011, at the Avera Eureka Healthcare Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 08, 2011, from First Baptist Church, Eureka, with Pastor Gary Bergman leading the service. Burial follows at the Eureka Cemetery. Organist will be Esther Grosz and the congregation will sing "Victory in Jesus" and "When the roll is called up Yonder." Prairie Winds will sing "Because He Lives." Ushers will be Theophil Dohn and Wallace Kusler. Harold Heupel, son of Christina (Knodel) and Fred Heupel, was born December 28, 1919, northeast of Eureka in McPherson County. The family lived on farmsteads near Lehr, North Dakota, Ashley, North Dakota, Long Lake, South Dakota, and in 1943 moved to Eureka. Harold married Meda Meidinger on July 17, 1949, at the Ashley Reformed Church. Prior to going into farming, Harold held many jobs including helping at Mehlhaff Mortuary, being in partnership with Val Kary in a Standard Station (across from the current Ken's Food Fair), and owning the Luncheonette with his twin brother, Arnold. Harold had lots of stories of escapades with his identical twin and the trouble they got into, such as the boat they and their friends built on which they sold rides on area lakes for 25 cents but grossed the most from the case of Canadian Club they stowed behind the knee wall and smuggled across the border; or painting someone's goat with green and white stripes; or surprising newlyweds by assembling a plow on their barn roof; and his favorite about hunting grouse slightly out of season with renowned former Eureka lawyer Paul Kretschmar and then stowing the birds in the hotel furnace when they discovered a game warden was staying in the same Pierre hotel, as the temperature dropped and the furnace was lit. Harold could never again eat anything spiced with sage due to the smell emanating through the hotel heating system. Harold bought what became the family farm southwest of Eureka in 1953 on which he raised small grains but primarily ran a feed lot for butcher cattle. In 1974, his son, Dennis joined his father in the cattle business which continues to produce Heupel Beef. Harold retired from active farming in 2000 and, in 2009, he and Meda moved to the Healthcare Ceneter. His hobbies included playing cards, fishing and traveling. He took great pride in his butcher cattle and, after retiring, was vey proud of the potatoes he grew in his minie-garden. Family surviving Harold include Meda, his wife of 62 years; one son Dennis (Mick) Heupel of Eureka; two daughters - Susan Price of Edina, Minnesota, and Jane Heupel of Naples, Florida; one brother, Alden (Marcia) Heupel of Madison, Wisconsin; and two grandsons, Matthew and Jared Heupel of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Harold was preceded in death by his faher on December 16, 1941, his mother on January 01, 1956, three sisters, Erna Heupel, Freda Larson and Irene Stotz; and his twin brother, Arnold. Family links: Parents: Friedrich Heupel (1881 - 1941) Christina Knodel Heupel (1890 - 1956) Spouse: Meda Magdelene Meidinger Heupel (1922 - 2016)* Sibling: Arnold Heupel (1919 - 1980)* Harold Heupel (1919 - 2011) *Calculated relationship Burial: Eureka City Cemetery Eureka McPherson County South Dakota, USA Created by: Donald Schmidt Record added: Mar 31, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 127222122