{"id":143980,"date":"2025-09-22T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=143980"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:23:05","slug":"edward-h-spud-soukup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/edward-h-spud-soukup\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward H. \u201cSpud\u201d Soukup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Edward H. \u201cSpud\u201d Soukup, age 96 of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, September 20, 2025,\u00a0at Divine Providence Community Home. Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 25, from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye Chapel, with Knights of Columbus Rosary at 3:30 pm and a prayer service at 3:45 pm prior to the visitation. Visitation will continue on Friday from 10:00 am until 11:00 am at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church \u2013 North Entrance in Sleepy Eye. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, September 26, 2025, at 11:00 am at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye and will be livestreamed at\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmarysleepyeye<\/a>. The clergy will be Fr. Craig Timmerman. Interment will be at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Cemetery. Arrangements are with Sturm Funeral Home in Sleepy Eye. Online condolences may be left for the family at\u00a0www.sturmfh.com<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n

Edward Henry Soukup was born on December 29, 1928, in Stark Township, Brown County to Joseph and Mary (Lang) Soukup, the youngest of seven children.\u00a0He was given the nickname “Spud” by his older brothers.\u00a0This enduring name stayed with him his entire life.\u00a0Spud attended country school and later St. Mary’s High School in Sleepy Eye.<\/p>\n

He met the love of his life, Patricia Sellner at a dance, and they were united in marriage on October 17, 1955, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye.\u00a0Their union blessed them with three children whom they raised together on the family farm. Spud and Pat were a team for nearly 67 years. They were often thought of as two peas in a pod, even finishing each other’s sentences.<\/p>\n

Spud lost his right hand in a corn picker accident in the fall of 1958.\u00a0This traumatic event did not deter his farming career.\u00a0With the help of his faithful partner Pat, they continued to work the family farm, side by side.<\/p>\n

In his earlier years, Spud also worked for Cal Pack and drove pea truck for Dutch Cook.\u00a0He was a Stark Township assessor for six years.\u00a0After retiring from farming, he worked at Sleepy Eye Auction Market, Schutz Foods and painted many farm buildings and houses.<\/p>\n

He had a passion for fishing, duck, goose and deer hunting, participating well into his 80’s.\u00a0 Whenever the opportunity arose, you would find him outdoors enjoying nature.\u00a0A huge vegetable garden was planted yearly with produce being shared among family and friends.\u00a0His children, grandchildren and great grandchildren brought him countless smiles and immense joy.<\/p>\n

Spud was a lifelong member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and belonged to the Knights of Columbus.\u00a0His faith was very important to him.\u00a0He cherished being able to attend daily mass and say the rosary while at Divine Providence Community Home.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his children, Pam (Paul) Penkert of New Ulm, Deb (Pat) Buley of Mankato, and Tom (Ed Sepich) Soukup of Las Vegas, NV; grandchildren, Joey (Kim) Penkert, Jeremy (Katie) Penkert, Chelsey (Jay) Hoffmann, Riley (Samantha) Buley; great grandchildren, Carter & Avery Penkert, Blaine, Beckett & Baylor Penkert, Everett & Lincoln Hoffmann, Elton & soon to be born baby girl Buley; sisters-in-law, Barb Mielke of Brookings, SD, Mary Sellner of Rosemount; and many nieces and nephews.\u00a0He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Patricia; brothers, Sylvester (Connie), Elmer (Hildegard), Victor & Harold; and sisters, Lorraine (Art) Pelzel & Lucille (Maurice) Simonsen.<\/p>\n

Spud will be dearly missed by all who knew him.<\/p>\n

A special thank you to the staff at Divine Providence Community Home, Sleepy Eye Medical Center, Countryside Retirement Community and Redwood Falls Hospice for their kind and compassionate care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward H. \u201cSpud\u201d Soukup, age 96 of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, September 20, 2025,\u00a0at Divine Providence Community Home. Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 25, from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye Chapel, with Knights of Columbus Rosary at 3:30 pm and a prayer service at …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143981,"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-143980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2027-10-22 20:24:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"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\/143980","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=143980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143982,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143980\/revisions\/143982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}