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- The Bismarck Tribune | Posted: Friday, January 2, 1998 12:00 am | (0) Comments
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GLEN ULLIN -- Martha Opp, 96, Glen Ullin, died Jan. 2, 1998, in Glen Ullin. Services will be 10:30 a.m. MST Monday at First Baptist Church, Hebron, with the Revs. David Ling, Art Wetzel and Victor Gross officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 3-9 p.m. MST Sunday at Spangelo Funeral Home, Hebron, where a prayer service will be said at 7:30 p.m. MST Sunday. Visitation will continue for one hour prior to services to church on Monday.
Martha was born on July 27, 1901, to Jacob and Margaret (Suess) Luithle, in Hebron. She was raised and educated south of Hebron near the Heart River. She worked in Mandan, Bismarck and in Hebron.
She married Gottlieb Opp Jr. on February 22, 1923, in rural Hebron. Following their marriage, the farmed northeast of Hebron. Martha was blessed with the gift of giving, and she would always share whatever it was she had.
In 1969, they retired and moved into Hebron, where she resided until entering the Marian Manor Nursing Home in Glen Ullin in March of 1990. Gottlieb died on July 9, 1978.
She loved horses and riding horses. She enjoyed her life on the farm and raising her family. She was a member of First Baptist Church.
She is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, Wilbert and Elsie, Hebron, and Vernon, Butte, Mont.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Esther and Art Wetzel, Glen Ullin, and Elaine and Leo Peltz, Palm Harbor, Fla.; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great great-grandchild; and two sisters, Clara Fehr, Minneapolis, and Lydia Greff, Staples, Minn. (Spangelo Funeral Home, Hebron)
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