MINNEWAKAN Harvey Donald Piper, 90, Rugby, formerly of rural Minnewaukan, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in a Rugby nursing home.

He was born March 29, 1919, to Hiram and Hulda Piper near Minnewaukan. During World War II, he served as a staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps from April 1942 until September 1945 in the Southwest Pacific Theater in New Guinea and the Philippines. He married Evelyn Schuman June 18, 1946, in Minnewaukan.

Survivors: wife; daughter: Estelle Harder, Rugby; son, Ronald, Minnewaukan; two grandsons; brother, Robert, Devils Lake; sister, Lorraine Fossen, Maddock.

Funeral: Tuesday, 1 p.m., St. Olaf Lutheran Church, rural Minnewaukan.

Burial: Church cemetery.

Visitation: Tuesday, 11 a.m. until the service, in the church. (Nelson Funeral Home, Maddock)