Fred P. Giepel
1916 - 2010
Fred P. Giepel
1916 - 2010
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1916
DIED
2010
Fred Giepel Obituary
He married Marie Houten in 1939 and lived in Rainier. Marie preceded him in death in 2009.
Fred started working at Longview Fibre in 1935 and retired in 1978. He served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific aboard the USS Bennington.
He was an honorary past master of Rainier Masonic Lodge and member of Mizpah Chapter 30 Order of Eastern Star in St. Helens.
He is survived by a son, Paul and his wife, Jean of Rainier; a daughter, Sandra Giepel of Hillsboro, Ore.; a grandson, Karl Giepel and his wife, Sara, of Central Point, Ore.; a granddaughter, Colleen Geier and her husband, Jeff, of Longview; and four great-grandchildren.
A service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Jennings McCall Retirement Home in Forest Grove.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Jennings McCall Retirement Home or the Providence Hospice.
Arrangements are by Fuiten, Rose & Hoyt Funeral Home.
Please sign the guest book at www.tdn.com/obits.
This obituary was originally published in The Daily News (Longview, WA).
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Joseph Pires
May 13, 2010
Paul & Sandra,
On behalf of the membership of the USS Bennington Association, please accept our condolences on the loss of your father Fred.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and we thank you for his service to God & Country country.
As your dad now stands "The Eternal Watch", please know that in August of this year, in Bennington, Vermont; at the Ship's Bell Monument, we'll be holding our annual Memorial Wreath Laying Ceremony and your dad's name will be read from the listing and the bell shall toll in his memory.
Fred may be gone from us but as long as his memory remains in just one of us, he shall be remembered always.
With My Deepest Sympathy,
Joseph Pires
USS Bennington Historian
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Harley Michels
May 10, 2010
Paul, I remembe your dad well. We spent many many hours together at Fibre He was a good man. Sorry for yor loss.
Harley Michels
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