Dorothy Kibbel
Dorothy went to be with the her Lord at the age of 102 on Saturday January 28, 2023, at Marian Manor in Glen Ullin with her son Steve and daughter-in-law June by her side.
Funeral services for Dorothy will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, February 3, 2023, at the Hope Congregational Church in Elgin, ND. Rev. Ed Zimmerman will officiate with burial to follow in the Hope Congregational Cemetery in Elgin.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church on Friday morning.
Dorothy was born on January 23, 1921. to Paul and Freda (Hallgrimson) Fender at Long Pine, Nebraska. In 1924 her family moved to Kingsbury South Dakota near Springfield. It was here she started kindergarten in 1926. In 1929 her parents bought a farm near Niobrara, Nebraska. This developed into those hard years of the “dirty thirties” and even though her father did trucking and farming they lost the farm. In 1935, the family moved to Sloan, Iowa and in 1939, she graduated from Sloan high school. From 1939 to 1944 she worked cleaning homes for people in the area. As she called it she was a domestic engineer. In 1941 they moved to Whiting, Iowa. From 1944 to 1945 she attended Miltonvale Weslyen College at Miltonvale, Kansas taking general classes. From 1945 to 1947 she worked In Sioux City, Iowa doing alterations in a ladies dress shop. In 1948 to 1949 she worked as an addressograph operator at a publishing house in Kansas City Missouri.
On December 31, 1948, she met Solomon Sprenger. She came to the farm north of Elgin for a week in July of 1949 for a visit. On October 7, 1949, she married Solly at her parents’ home in Iowa with Sollys brother Ernest performing the ceremony. They made their home on the farm north of Elgin where Solomon grew up. On January 12, 1951, a son was born to this union Steven Paul Sprenger. Steve was their only child and he married June Ann Campbell on October 5 1974. Solly and Dorothy moved into Elgin and Steve took over the farm.
Dorothy was an excellent seamstress. She made clothes for people and did many alterations. She made many hand stitched quilts and was a part of Elgin’s quilting group which she loved being a part of. Dorothy taught Sunday school for many years and enjoyed being a part of Bible study groups. She was a long time member of Hope Congregational Church in Elgin. She loved the Lord very much and was such a great prayer warrior for her family. In 1978, Solomon passed away. Mom was such a part of our family helping with gardening, butchering chickens, babysitting her grand children and helping out anyway she could on the farm. She was a very valued part of our family.
In 1996, she married Kenneth Kibbel and they were married seven years before Kenny passed away. She continued to live in Elgin.
In 2013, because of failing eyesight she moved to the farm with Steve and June. She was there for 2 1/2 years then two years at Dakota Hill then to Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Mott. In 2022, she moved to Marian Manor in Glen Ullin where she passed away.
She is survived by her son Steve (June) Sprenger of Elgin, ND; granddaughter, Janie from Wahougal, Washington; grandson, Matt from Dickinson ND, and grandson Luke (Betty) Sprenger, great grandsons Eddie, Jake, and Samson from Elgin, grandson David (Kelsey), great grandchildren, Jasmin and Solomon from Elgin, niece Susan (Daryl) Catron , nephew Rodney Fender, and Dennis (Jacque) Fender and great nephews and nieces . The family she called her second son and wife Gary and Louise Wood and their three daughters Pam, Jody, and Kristi.
She was preceded in death by her parents Paul and Frieda Fender, her husband Solomon Sprenger and her second husband Kenneth Kibbel, her brother Lloyd and sister in law Verna Pearl Fender and many brothers and sisters in law on the Sprenger side and many cousins.
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