Bluffs, April 22-Funeral services for Henry C. Knoeppel, 83, who died at St. John's hospital in Springfield Tuesday, will be held at the residence in Bluffs at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and at 2:30 o'clock from the Trinity Lutheran church at Neelyville. Interment will be at the New Lutheran cemetery at Neelyville. The Rev. John Deterding will officiate.

Henry C. Knoeppel, eldest son of John and Johannette Zimmerman Knoeppel, was born on a farm north east of Bluffs, May 8, 1858. Except for a short term in Brown's Business College in Jacksonville, he received his education in Bluffs grade school.

March 12, 1884, he was united in marriage to Anna C. Brockhouse, who preceded him in death while she was attending his bedside at St. John's Hospital. At the time she was making her home with Dr. H. C. Sears.

He and his wife resided on a farm near Neelyvillle, where he clerked in a store. Later he built a dwelling in Bluffs and clerked in Knoeppel-Brockhouse Bro. general store. He assisted John Peeper in the lumber business which he purchased a year or two later, the location which is now the Bluffs Lumber Company. Later he sold it to Hunter Allan Co.

He supervised a farm and orchard near Bluffs, was connected with the Bank of Bluffs as an officer and was vice-president at the time of his death. He was also connected with the Farm Bureau. One son, J. Albert Knoeppel, of Bluffs, survives.

Mr. Knoeppel entered St. John's Hospital in Springfield July 1941 and remained there until his death April 21, 1942. While at the hospital he was under supervision of Dr. H. W. Sears. The body was removed to Bates Funeral Home in Bluffs.

He was a member of the Neelyville Lutheran church.

Submitted by: Melissa Grissom.