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Vernon Theodore Nepstad
DOB 8/29/1914 Kalispeel, Montana.
DOD 7/19/1995 Oakland
4/15/1939 (Oakland Tribune, p. 27) engaged to wed are Vernon Nepstad, 24, of Exeter and
Ethel Gertrude Hogan, 17, of Hayward. They marry on 5/20/1939 but not by Harry Morse.
Looks like W. L. Bonn
10/16/1940 (WW2 draft card) Nepstad lives in Alameda. Works at Safeway foods.
1940 (US census) Nepstad lives in Oakland on 34th ave. Married. He works at a grocery store.
1941(city directory) Nepstad lives in Oakland. He is a clerk.
7/2/1942 (Sacramento Bee, p.13) Vernon Nepstad at wedding shower in Sacramento.
10/8/1942 (Oakdale Leader, p.3) Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Nepstad and daughter Verna Lynn of
Hayward were weekend guests of Mrs. Nepstad's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hogan
have returned from a vacation at New Westminster, British Columbia. They reported
many interesting changes since the war. However, unlike the United States coastal
states many Japanese are seen in the streets entirely at liberty.
12/3/1942 (Oakdale Leader, p.3) Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Nepstad and daughter Verna of
Haywards were holiday guests in the home of Mrs. Nepstad's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Hogan on Pleasant Valley avenue.
5/20/1943 (Oakdale Leader, p. 6) Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Nepstad and family of Hayward are
moving to the James Mcvay place on Pleasant valley avenue. Mrs. Nepstad is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hogan.
8/21/1947 (Capital Journal, Salem, Or, p. 20) Friday evening at 7:30, a youth rally will be
held at the Jesus Name Pentecostal church, 1175 Lewis street. Rev. David Gray, San
Diego, National Youth President of the United Pentecostal Organization of which the
local church is an affiliate, will be present to speak for the local Pentecostal Conqueror's
Youth Service. Accompanying Rev. Gray will be Rev. Vernon Nepstad of Yakima.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend this rally. Rev. R. V. Sittser is pastor of the
church.
10/2/1947 (Sacramento Bee, p. 4) EMMA S NEPSTAD Funeral services will be held at 11
A M tomorrow in the North Sacramento Funeral Home for Mrs Emma S Nepstad 76 a
resident of North Sacramento 25 years who died yesterday in the Arcade Hospital - The
Nepstad family home is at 516 Cantalier Avenue North Sacramento Mrs Nepstad leaves
her husband Nels and seven children The children are Aubrey Nepstad Mrs Blanche
Shirley and Mrs Norma Montgomery all of Sacramento Vernon and Adele Nepstad and
Mrs Lillis Dillard of North Sacramento and Mrs Grace Stoddard of Redding Shasta
County
5/1948 (Pentecostal Northwestern News, p. 2) Nepstead is district young persons leader, living
in Yakima, Washington.
9/28/1950 (Visalia Times Delta, p. 5) New pastor of the First Pentecostal Church in Visalia is the
Rev. Vernon Nepstad.
He follows the Rev. and Mrs. Otis M. Petty to the pulpit of the Visalia church. The Pettys
are making preparations to enter the foreign field as church missionaries to Africa. The
Rev. Mr. Nepstad was formerly pastor of the First Pentacostai Church in Yakima,
Wash., where he served for three years. Prior to his entering the ministry, his ambition
was to crash the opera as a Norwegian tenor. He now holds the position of
secretary-treasurer for the United Pentacostai Church of the western district, which
includes Oregon, California and Nevada. Mrs. Nepstad is also a fine musician and both
extend an invitation to the public to attend the church on NW Fourth st.
4/21/1951 (Visalia Times Delta, p. 10) There is a simple but important purpose to the First
Pentecostal Church at Fourth and Houston ave. It is to help build better men and
women, boys and girls in the city of Visalia to prepare them for the coming of our Lord.
These are the words of the Rev. Vernon Nepstad, the pastor of the church, who says:
By practicing Apostolic doctrine, we get Apostolic results. Here Since 1916 The church
has been in existence in Visalia since 1916 and has always followed this creed. Of more
recent times, the church has carried on a fight against the spread of the Communist
disease. Church work, says the Rev. Mr. Nepstad, is opposite to Communism. He says
the Apostolic message is much easier to talk about than to practice. Apostolic feeling
without Apostolic practice is like a powerful locomotive under a full head of steam, which
never turned a wheel or pulled a train of cars."
The Pentecostal Church believes the message to be preached today is death, burial
and resurrection which Paul spoke about. To implement this message and the work of
the church, Sunday school is held every Sunday from 10 to 11 a. m. and from 1 p. m. to
4 p. m. Born In Montana The Rev. Mr. Nepstad comes well-prepared for his life-work in
Visalia. Born in Montana in 1914, he spent part of his early youth in the Peace River
country of Alberta, Canada, where the now-famous Alcan highway had its beginnings.
During the freezing winter months, the Rev. Mr. Nepstad was an active youth
participating in the youthful sports common to boys of that area.
In the summer, he played baseball and in his spare time, he studied voice with the idea
of someday singing in the Metropolitan Opera House. It was in the spring of 1934, that
the Rev. Mr. Nepstads ideal changed from Richard Crooks, the noted tenor, to the Lord
Jesus Christ.
I have been trying to pattern my life after Christs ever since, he declared. He said that
without Christ and holiness, no man will see God. The Rev. Mr. Nepstad returned to the
United States in 1938 and during his theological school life met and married Miss Ethel
Hogan, whose musical abilities have been a great asset to the Visalia congregation.
2,500 Ministers He says the United Pentecostal Church, with headquarters in St. Louis,
Mo., has a membership of about 2,500 ministers and carries on a missionary program
to all parts of the globe. For three years, before coming to Visalia, Rev. Nepstad was
president of the young peoples activities in the Northwestern District of the church,
which included Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and British Columbia.
At present, the Rev. Mr. Nepstad is secretary-treasurer of the western district of the
church, consisting of the Arizona, Nevada and California areas.
At present, the Rev. Mr. Nepstad is secretary-treasurer of the western district of the
church, consisting of the Arizona, Nevada and California areas. But it is in Visalia that
the Rev. Mr. Nepstad devotes much of his activity. He sponsors Bible study classes
every Tuesday night in which the work and teachings of Christ are explained.
2/28/1965 (Oakland Tribune, p. 98) , The bride's father, the Rev. , Vernon Nepstad,
officiated at rites in the Oakland Victory Temple which united Avonne JaneU Nepstad
and G. Dale Fairchild. Daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. .Nepstad of San Leandro, Avonne
was attended by Dor-etta Herring, Nila ' Nepstad and Verna Nepstad. The bridegroom,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Opperman of this city, had Delmer Fairchild as best man
and Ron Harris and Preston Herring as ushers. The bride studied at College of the
Sequoias in Visalia and Chabot College,, and Dale attended Canyonville Bible Academy
in Oregon.
7/14/1952 (Sacramento Bee, p. 17) Nels H Nepstad Services will be held at II AM
tomorrow in the North Sacramento Funeral Home for Nels Henry Nepstad 83 a retired
real estate man who lived in Carmichael the last 32 years- Burial will be in the East
Lawn Cemetery Nepstad died Saturday in the Arcade Hospital He was the father of
Vernon E Nepstad, Adcle Nepstad, Mrs Norma Montgomery, Mrs Blanche Shirley,
Mrs Lyllis Dillard all of Sacramento and Mrs Grace Stoddard of Redding Shasta County
6/2/1953 (Visalia Times Delta, p. 40) Building better men and women, boys and girls in
the city of Visalia to prepare them for the coming of the Lord, is the avowed purpose of
the First Pentecostal Church at Fourth and Houston Avenues. The Rev. Vernon
Nepstad, pastor of the Church in Visalia since 1950, stresses the practice as well as the
preaching of the Apostolic doctrine, declaring that By practicing Apostolic doctrine, we
get Apostolic results. He adds that Apostolic doctrine is much easier to talk about than
to practice. Apostolic feeling with-o u t Apostolic practice is like Rev. Nepstad a powerful
locomotive under a full head of steam, which has never turned a wheel or pulled a train
of cars.
Sunday School is held at the church ever Sunday at 9:45 a. m., followed by a worship
service at 11:00 a m. and an evangelistic service at 7:30 p. m. Bible study classes are
held every Tuesday night and young peoples services every Thursday night. The Rev.
Nepstad was born in Montana in 1914, and spent his early youth in the Peace River
country in Canada. He was active in sports and interested in studying voice with the
idea of some day singing in the Metropolitan Opera House. In the spring of 1934 his
ambition changed from a singing career to one in the ministry. He returned to the United
States in 1938 and during his theological school life met and married Miss Ethel Hogan,
whose musical ability has been a great asset to the Visalia congregation. For three
years before he came to Visalia, the Rev. Mr. Nepstad was president of the young
peoples activities in the Northwestern District of the church, which included Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and British Columbia. At present he is
secretary-treasurer of the western district of the church, consisting of Arizona,
California, and Nevada.
8/12/1953 (Bakersfield Californian, p. 19) FRAZIER PARK—The annual district camp
meeting of the United Pentecpstal Churches closed with some 800 members attending
the Sunday services on conference grounds near Frazier Park. The Rev. Odell Cagle of
Exeter, district superintendent, was in charge of the camp meeting. He was assisted by
the Rev. Vernon Nepstad of Visalia, district secretary. Speakers included the Rev. E. G.
Lowe of Dinuba, the Rev. C. P. Kilgore of Mantcca, the Rev. Sam Klein of Sacramento,
the Rev. Murry L,ayne of Fresno, the Rev. C. J. Haney of Stockton and Rev. Jimmie
Davis of Weed Patch. Although not completed, the new tabernacle recently erected on
the conference grounds was usable for this year's meetings. The building is expected to
be completed by early spring of 1954.
11/10/1962 (Oakland Tribune, p. 9) Singing Nepstads at Revival Center, Opperman is
pastor. Nepstads are still from Visalia.
11/22/1968 Nepstad preaches funeral for Maude Morse in Oakland.
1981 Vernon Nepstad pastors Victory Temple in Oakland. Flower archive has some of
his bulletins from that year.
11/28/2008 DOD Ethel Gertrude Nepstad. Daughter of Walter Franklin Hogan and Pearl
Clara Beasley.
NEPSTAD, Ethel G. She was born on January 30, 1922, in Alameda, Calif., and went home
to meet Jesus and her late husband, Vernon Nepstad, on November 24, 2008, with her
family beside her. Mom will be greatly missed by her four daughters, Verna Nepstad,
Doretta Nugent, Avonne Ruiz, and Nyla Barrett; and her son-in-law Keith Barrett; her
grandchildren Steve Herring, Loren Herring, Chad Fairchild, Casey Fairchild, Shanna
Adams, Brice Ingwaldson, and Zachary Ingwaldson, and her 15 great-grandchildren. She
lived many years in the Bay Area and pastored Victory Temple Church in Oakland with her
husband for 17 years; she later resided in Alameda before moving to Sacramento in 2002.
Viewing will be 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. on November 28, 2008, at REICHERT'S FUNERAL
CHAPEL, 7320 Auburn Blvd., Citrus Heights, Calif., (916) 729-2229. We will celebrate her
home going on Saturday, November 29, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove
Community Church, 1730 Pleasant Grove, Roseville, Calif., with interment to follow at
Oakland Chapel of the Chimes beside her husband, Vernon Nepstad.