Eleanor Lucille Jepsen was born on February 25, 1933 in Georgetown Township, Polk County, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Otis and Lillian (Elkins) Peters. She grew up in Georgetown and graduated from the Luck High School. On July 27, 1951 she was united in marriage to Fred Willard Jepsen at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Bone Lake, and together they had six children. Eleanor was a loving wife, mother and homemaker.
While living on the farm you could always count on three meals a day, fresh baked bread and deserts. Eleanor was a skilled seamstress, and enjoyed sewing clothes for her children while they were young. In her later years quilting, knitting and crocheting were her passion. She also spent time providing daycare for neighborhood children, and also worked at the Ben Franklin Store in Amery, WI. The past few years have seen some difficult times with her health, and she spent the past year at the Amery Memory Care in Amery, WI. She died at the Amery Hospital on Friday, March 25, 2016 at the age of 83 years.
Eleanor was preceded in death by her parents, husband Fred, son Gary, brothers: Theodore and Glen Peters, and sister Shelby Hanson. Left to mourn are her children: Neal (Judi) Jepsen, Laurie (Barry) Anderson, Judy (Ron) Kappers, Roy (Lorna) Jepsen, and Dale (Lori) Jepsen; 13 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren; brother Raymond (Helga) Peters; sister Mary (Bill) Schilling as well as other relatives and friends.


Memorial services will be held at the Bone Lake Lutheran Church in rural Luck, Wisconsin on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. There will be visitation at the church for the hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at the Bone Lake Cemetery.