Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Margaretta Reppen CSC
Jan. 13, 1918 – Aug. 22, 1981
South Bend Tribune 8/23/1981
Sister M. Margaretta CSC, 63, of
Saint Mary’s Convent, Notre Dame, died at 2:10 p.m. Saturday
at the convent after an 18-month illness. She was born Judith
Marie Reppen on Jan. 13, 1918 in Arcadia, Wis. and entered
the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Saint Mary’s,
on July 3, 1936. She was received as a novice on Jan. 6,
1937, and made her profession on Feb. 2, 1938. She was graduated
from St. Mary’s College with a B. A. degree in history. She
did graduate work at the University of Notre Dame and at Fordham
University receiving her M. A. in administration in 1956 and her
Ph.D. in elementary education in 1962.
She served as an elementary school teacher
at St. Joseph and St. Patrick’s in South Bend, as well as
schools in Michigan and Illinois. Her last assignment was if the
Department of Education at St. Mary’s College, where she
served from 1956 to the time of her death. She is survived by two
sisters, Sister Dorothy Ann Reppen CSC, of South Bend, and
Mrs. Mary Cae Kelly of Tampa, Fla.; and seven brothers,
David and Eugene Reppen, both of Louisiana, Rev. Robert B. Reppen
O. Praem of Battle Creek, Mich., John and William Reppen of
Rockford, Ill., Daniel Reppen of Chicago and Richard Reppen of
Coral Springs, Fla.