Constance Beverly Kippley

Funeral Mass for Constance Beverly Kippley, 88, of St. Cloud, formerly of Palo, will be 10am Monday, February 16, 2015 at Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Hoyt Lakes with Fr. Steven Daigle as celebrant. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00-4:00pm with recitation of the rosary at 3:30pm at Ziemer-Moeglein-Shatava Funeral Home in Aurora. Visitation will also be for one hour prior to the mass at church on Monday. Burial will be at a later date. Bev Kippley, long-time resident of Palo, MN died Tuesday, February 10th at St. Benedict's Senior Community in St. Cloud , MN, where she had lived the last six months of her life. She was born on January 19, 1927, in St. Louis, MO, to Edward A. and Cecelia A. (Rygelski) Koziboski. Her father was a career Army Air Corp military officer and the family lived wherever in the world her father was stationed. At the onset of WW II the family returned to Scott Field, which is right outside of St. Louis. As a teenager during those war years Beverly began writing letters to the soldiers in the Pacific Theater. She started corresponding regularly with a "guy from Minnesota". At the wars end he travelled to St. Louis to finally meet and propose to Beverly. She married Clifford H. Kippley on June 22, 1946 in his hometown of Pierz, MN. They were married for 59 years at the time of his death in July of 2005. They were blessed with 12 children and adopted their grandson Thomas Huben to make it a nice "baker’s dozen". Throughout her lifetime Beverly was a homemaker and mother first, while being a master organizer who was involved in numerous church, community and civic activities over the years. She was known for her love of her family and dear friends, having parties to celebrate all of life's events and her devotion to the Holy Mother. Her absolute faith and powerful praying on her Rosary beads was called upon throughout her lifetime. She continued to pray her Rosary for the special intentions of family and friends right up to the morning she died. She is survived by daughters Barbara Bracy, Blue Mound, TX; Claudia Peden, St. Cloud, MN and son's Edward (Kathy), Aurora, MN; Bruce (Barbara), Pearland, TX; Henry (Beth), Riverton, NJ; Martin (Ann), Rollinsford, NH; Michael, McMurdo Station, Antarctica; Adam (Pam), St. Cloud, MN and Thomas of FL; 19 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren (including one due in May); and her only sister, Judith Kreitner and Judy's family of St. Louis, Mo. She is preceded in death by her parents Ed and "Sis" Koziboski, her brother Edward, husband Clifford, son Leslie, three infant sons, and both of her sons-in-law, Lee Bracy and Timothy Peden. At their mother's request the family prefers memorials in lieu of flowers to the Hoyt Lakes Queen of Peace Catholic Church Rosary group whose work she supported and admired for many years or to Public Television’s Catholic Mass for Shut-ins which she watched religiously in the last several years of her life when she could no longer attend mass on her own. The family would also like to extend a very special thank you to the staff of St. Benedict's Senior Community in St. Cloud for the love and care they extended to our mother during her time with them.