Published by admin on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 3:14pm
Paul Arnold Koppen, age 94, of Lakota, died Monday, June 14, 2021 at Timely Mission Nursing Home in Buffalo Center. A funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 18, 2021, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Lakota. Burial was in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery with military honors conducted.
Paul was born on December 22, 1926, the son of P.L. and Gertrude (Becker) Koppen, on a farm east of Lakota. Paul grew up on that farm and attended Lakota consolidated school. He was baptized at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ledyard in 1927 and received his First Communion in 1936.