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Walter E. Kipke

17 April 1904–21 August 1978 (Age 74)
Michigan, United States

The Life of Walter E.

When Walter E. Kipke was born on 17 April 1904, in Michigan, United States, his father, Charles William Kipke, was 44 and his mother, Wilhemina Straus, was 38. He married Vera E. Corp in 1926, in Michigan, United States. He died on 21 August 1978, in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States, at the age of 74.

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Spouse and Children

Parents and Siblings

Walter E. Kipke

1904–1978

Vera E. Corp

1906–1986

Marriage: 1926

Spouse and Children

Walter E. Kipke

Male1904–1978Male

Vera E. Corp

Female1906–1986Female

MARRIAGE
1926
Michigan, United States

Parents and Siblings

Charles William Kipke

Male1860–1918Male

Wilhemina Straus

Female1866–Female

siblings

(10)

Ernest Kipke

Male1891–Male

Caroline Fedricka Kipke

Female1892–Female

Sena C. Kepke

Female1892–Female

Lena Kipke

Female1893–Female

Marie A Kipke

Female1894–Female

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

Age 2

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1910 · Upper Twin Falls Bridge

Age 6

The Upper Twin Falls Bridge which connected Breitung Township, Michigan, to Florence County, Wisconsin. The through-truss bridge spanned the Menominee River and was completed in 1910. The bridge was closed to through traffic in 1971 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1927

Age 23

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

Kipke

Walter

German: probably a metonymic occupational name for a waffle baker, from a diminutive of Middle High German hippe ‘waffle’.

Sources (2)

Walter Kipke in household of Minnie Kipke, "United States Census, 1920"
Walter E Kipka in household of Charles W Kipke, "United States Census, 1910"

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