Schoppert, Delores

              OBITUARY
Delores Schoppert
Delores Mae Schoppert, 88, Menno,
S.D., passed away Thursday, March 3,
2016 at the Menno-Olivet Care Cen-ter,
Menno. Funeral services were held
Monday, March 7 at Grace Lutheran
Church, Menno, with Rev. Theresa
Jacobson officiating. Burial was in
the Menno Cemetery. Visitations were
Sunday, March 6, at the Aisenbrey-
Opsahl-Kostel Memorial Chapel,
Menno. Visitations resumed prior to
the service at the church. Online con-dolences
may be sent at www.opsahl-kostelfuneralhome.
com.
Delores was born Dec. 20, 1927,
to William Ernest and Minnie Sophia
(Jensen) Fiskey in Bridgewater, S.D.
She was baptized in Bridgewater and
confirmed in Salem, S.D. Delores
attended Salem Public School and
graduated in 1945. She continued her
education attending South Dakota
State, Northern State Teachers College
and Dakota Wesley an in 1962 where
she received her bachelor of science in
education. Delores was an elementary
teacher for 40 plus years, retiring in
1990. She taught in Hammond, Wis.,
Parkston, S.D., and Menno, teaching
kindergarten and third grade. Delores
also taught typing and shorthand.
She was a member at Christ Lu-theran
Church in Salem and then at
Grace Lutheran Church of Menno.
She taught Sunday school for 15 years.
Delores was part of the South Dakota
Education Association, Rames-Bender
American Legion Post #152 Ladies
Auxiliary and Christ Lutheran Wom-en.
Delores was a big Minnesota Twins
baseball fan, an avid reader and sang
in the church choir.
Those who will cherish her memory
are her two sisters: Bernice Chris-topherson,
Brandon, S.D., and Jean
Fiskey, Mankato, Minn; and cousins:
Pamela King and Jane Schumacher;
and a special friend, Yvonne Kelling
of Mankato.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Fred Schoppert; her par-ents,
William and Minnie Fiskey; and
brother Ralph Fiskey.
The family requests that memo-rials
be directed to: Rames-Bender
American Legion Post #152, in care
of Jerome Hoff, 212 North 5th Street,
Menno, SD 57045 or the Menno
Public Library, 410 South 5th Street,
Menno, SD 57045.