The Lauper Family

Family of Emile and Emma Lauper

Emile Lauper met Emma Vissing in Lehi, Utah. Shortly thereafter, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on October 31, 1900.

Emile was a Swiss-French immigrant, born in the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1869, to Jean Lauper and Marie Elise Sachot. (See Emile Lauper)

Emile and Emma, at the time of their marriage, 1900

Emma, born in 1881 in Vejle, Denmark, is the daughter of Maria Johanna Sorensen and Jakob Busch Vissing, but sealed as a daughter to Maria's husband, Hans Madsen. (See Emma Vissing)

Emile and Emma farmed a number of lands in northern and central Utah (Utah, Box Elder and Millard counties). They gave birth to 10 children, one who died in infancy, and two who were killed in accidents just as they were reaching adulthood. The older children, one-by-one, moved to southern California, with the remainder of the family following and settling in Ventura County in 1929. It was there that Emile passed away in 1936. All of the family members, with the exception of Ivan, moved up to Oakland, San Francisco and other towns of the Bay Area. Emma, living with her daughter Viola in San Francisco, passed away in 1958 due to complications from a fall that broke her hip.

The Lauper siblings established themselves and became well-known in their communities, particularly in Church circles. Interestingly enough, in a parallel to their Madsen-Tetzner cousins, Marcel established a furniture store which he ran with his brothers Dennis and Ralph until they retired.

Children of Emile and Emma Lauper

(There are links to their Personal Histories, as online copies become available. Several also have Oral Interviews that have been transcribed.)

(There are MANY items that need to be transcribed for this site; see below)

Serge, Alice, Ivan, 1928

• Serge James Lauper (1901-1994)
  spouse: Jean Vernon Gordan (1904-1977), Winifred Compton Matson (1909-1993)

  Ivan Emile Lauper (1902-1995)

  spouse: Mary Helen Burke (1899-1988)

  John Arnold Lauper (1904-1923)

   

  Felix Louis Lauper (1907-1927)

   

  Alice Marie Lauper Brown (1908-1993)

  spouse: William Moran Brown (1901-1971)

  Else Geneva Lauper (1910-1910)

   

  Marcel Franklin Lauper (1911-1997)

  spouse: Frances Ellen Barney (1923-)

  Viola Emma Lauper Johnson (1913-2010)

  spouse: Joseph Richards Johnson (1909-1963)

  Dennis LaVerne Lauper (1915-1999)

  spouse: Helen Eugene Froerer (1914-2004)

  Ralph Julius Lauper (1916-1993)

  spouse: Jane Pace (1921-2005)

Ivan, John & Serge, 1905

1989 Oral History Interviews with Lauper Siblings

Interviews by Julie Lauper-Cook and Karen Danielson Talbert

Although the stories in these interviews overlap with those told in the written personal histories, in almost all cases, there are memories recorded in the interviews that are not found in the histories!

Missionaries

Listing of Lauper Family Missionaries

Lauper Siblings and Mother, 1949