{"id":135633,"date":"2023-10-01T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=135633"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:06:04","slug":"vernard-riebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/vernard-riebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernard Riebel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vernard T. Riebel, 86, of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota died on September 30, 2023, at New Ulm Medical Center in New Ulm, Minnesota. Visitation will be on Thursday, October 5th<\/sup>, from 4 to 7pm at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye Chapel and will continue on Friday from 9:30 am until 10:30 am at St. Mary’s Catholic Church-North Entrance in Sleepy Eye. Funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye on Friday, October 6th<\/sup>, at 10:30 am and will be livestreamed at\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmarysleepyeye<\/a>. The clergy will be Fr. Mark Steffl. Interment will be at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Sleepy Eye. Arrangements are with Sturm Funeral Home in Sleepy Eye. Online condolences may be left for the family at\u00a0www.sturmfh.com<\/a>.\u00a0Memorials are preferred to St. Mary\u2019s Catholic School.<\/p>\n

Vernard \u201cVernie\u201d Thomas Riebel would like to let you know that his work here is done. He received an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse, on Saturday, September 30th, for an appointment with our Lord, from which he will not be returning. This assignment comes with great benefits and a reunion with his beloved family and friends.<\/p>\n

His new role takes him to a wonderful place where he will be harvesting an abundant crop every fall, joking with family and friends, walking and dancing with no pain, hunting in the woods, reeling in the \u201cbig one\u201d at the lake and having \u201cjust one more\u201d while all the world problems are solved.<\/p>\n

Vernie attended St. Mary\u2019s School and spent his entire life on the farm.\u00a0 He enjoyed hunting and fishing.<\/p>\n

Those missing him include his loving wife, Myrt (Klossner) of 62 years; children, David & Nancee of Sleepy Eye, Mark & Kathy of Milaca, Gwen & Darrel Brey of New Ulm and Sue & Blaine Lueck of St. Cloud; grandchildren, Amber Riebel, Terry Riebel, Nick Riebel, Jacob Riebel, Katie Riebel, Joe Brey, Ali Winter, Ben Lueck, Josh Lueck and Sam Lueck; and 8 great grandchildren.\u00a0 Vernie is also survived by his brothers, Gerald & Diane and Ken Riebel of Sleepy Eye; brother-in-law, Harvey Klossner (Marge) of Silver Lake; and sister-in-law, Ruth Klossner of Bernadotte.<\/p>\n

He is reunited with his parents, Bernard \u201cBen\u201d and Minnie (Klinker) Riebel; brother, Richard who died in infancy; his in-laws, Hillard \u201cJake\u201d and Edna Klossner; and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.<\/p>\n

We thank the Allina Health Hospice and Hospital staff for the compassionate care our Dad received.\u00a0 We will forever be grateful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vernard T. Riebel, 86, of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota died on September 30, 2023, at New Ulm Medical Center in New Ulm, Minnesota. Visitation will be on Thursday, October 5th, from 4 to 7pm at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye Chapel and will continue on Friday from 9:30 am until 10:30 am at St. Mary’s Catholic …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 04:49:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135642,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633\/revisions\/135642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}