William H. Teppo

Funeral services will be held Tuesday for William H. Teppo, 59, of 806 Princeton, who died suddenly of a heart attack on Aug. 23, in Paris, France. He had been on business in France since December.
The Rev. Ernest H. Klaudt will officiate at the 2 p.m. Tuesday services at the Muehlig Chapel. Burial will be in Bethlehem Cemetery.
Mr. Teppo was born July 13, 1905, in Sault Ste. Marie, a son of John and Anna Kivela Teppo. He attended Northern Michigan University. He came to Ann Arbor from Marquette in 1948.
A Michigan Bell Telephone Co. employee for the past 40 years, he was a communications engineer with the Southfield office, and was on a special assignment for the Western Electric Co. at the time of his death.
He was a member of Bethlehem United Church of Christ, the Michigan Bell Telephone Pioneers, the Marquette Masonic Lodge No. 101, F&AM, the Francis M. Moore Consistory and other co-ordinating bodies.
He married Mabel Skogquist of Gladstone on Aug. 15, 1933, and she survives.
Also surviving are a son, Dr. Kenneth W. Teppo, two daughters, Miss Marilyn Teppo and Mrs. Carl (Christine) Litzenberg, and two grandchildren, all of Ann Arbor; his mother of Sault Ste. Marie; three brothers, Armas of Phoenix, Ariz., Elmer of Detroit, Eino of Farmington; and a sister, Mrs. Alice Lake of Evansville, Ind.
Friends may call at the Muehlig Chapel.