David Pape, age 83, of Cambridge, MN, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at Rosewood Senior Living in Cambridge. A Funeral Service will be held at 4:00 pm on Friday, April 26th at Fish Lake Lutheran Church, 43353 Cedarcrest Trail, Harris, with visitation one hour prior to service at the church. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Dave was born on October 11, 1940 in Clinton, IA, the son of LaVonia (Hartz) and Dillwynne Pape. Dave graduated from Saint Ambrose Academy in Davenport, IA in 1958. He was a salesman at Mills Chevrolet from 1958 until 1963 when he was drafted into the Army. He had basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in MO and served in the Iowa National Guard. In 1966 he moved to Minnesota and worked at Hazelden in Center City as Food Service Supervisor. On June 12, 1968 he married Janice Titrud, they had two children. Dave and Jan worked together all 55 years of their marriage investing in real estate. His hobby was tinkering on tractors and he loved visiting with friends at coffee shops and local implement dealers.
Dave was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Nancy Dermody; brothers-in-law, Dave Dermody and Tom Singer.
He is survived by his wife, Janice; daughter, Jennifer (Matt) Schneider and grandchildren, Ellie, Katie and Maddie; son, Joseph and his girlfriend Gina; and sister, Rebecca Singer.
I’m praying for the blessings of God’s comfort and precious memories to help you all through this time of grief. And thankful for the blessing that his life has been to you all. 💗
Dad was a huge animal lover!
He had many special dogs over the years, taking in strays sometimes and spoiled them rotten (he always had a Milk Bone treat in his bib overalls pocket. We raised 300,000 Gold n’ Plump chickens/year and had feeder pigs back in 1981-84 and milked beautiful registered jerseys during my 7th-12th grades. Dad loved watching the deer (Mom liked the fawns) on their land and put out salt licks and No Hunting signs for them. Dad also took a lot of pride in his properties, always mowing and trimming each week and snow plowed the long country driveways. He stayed active and enjoyed the little things in life like family meals together and a big bowl of popcorn with some night time TV. Dad would include us with his kichen-takeover projects like his sweet pineapple and clove Easter and Christmas hams, Thanksgiving feasts with the best homemade dressing and gravy, vegetable beef soup with dumplings (“dumbos”) and popcorn balls as we all cried “Ouch, ouch!” with hot buttery hands. He always had mints in his bibs pockets, frequently handing them out to friends and family., “Here, have a peppermint.”
Always enjoyed visiting and laughing with Dave at larson implement
Dave will certainly be missed. He was one of our first customers having bought a tractor from Lance more than 45 yrs ago. But he would become more than a customer to us. He’d stop by almost every morning for years to have a cup of coffee and 1 cookie “Don’t tell Jan” he’d said. He had a great sense of humor, giggling while telling jokes and stories from his younger days. We appreciated and enjoyed the friendship we had with him and his family over the years.