Copenhaver, Margaret Louise 1917-2002

COPENHAVER, SCOTT, BROWN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/30/2007 at 15:22:01

LE MARS, Iowa -- Margaret Louise Copenhaver, 84, of Le Mars died Thursday, June 20, 2002, at Brentwood Good Samaritan Center in Le Mars.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Le Mars, with the Rev. Jon Meredith officiating. There will be no visitation. Arrangements are under the direction of Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars.

Margaret Louise Copenhaver was born Aug. 29, 1917, in Manito, Ill., the daughter of Ben O. and Bertha (Brown) Scott. She graduated from Springfield (Illinois) High School in 1935. She continued her education at Illinois State Normal University where she received her teaching degree in 1938. Margaret taught for several years in one-room schools in Illinois.

In 1943 she enlisted in the United States Navy. Margaret served her country during World War II, attaining the rank of ensign prior to her honorable discharge in 1945.

She married Bertram Copenhaver on March 18, 1945, at Gulfport, Miss. The couple made their home in Illinois, where Margaret continued her education at the University of Illinois. She graduated in 1951. She was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the Commerce Honor Society. The family lived in various locations throughout the country before settling in New Jersey in 1958. Margaret taught elementary and special needs students until retiring in 1983. They moved to Le Mars in 1990. Mr. Copenhaver passed away on Jan. 7, 1993.

Margaret attended First Baptist Church in Le Mars. She was a member of the Floyd Valley Hospital Auxiliary and the American Association of University Women.

She will be lovingly remembered by her sons, David and his wife, Susanne of Le Mars, and Jay and his wife, Lynn of Collingswood, N.J.; grandchildren, Sean and Chris of Collingswood; and a sister-in-law, Barbara Pickering of Anamosa, Iowa.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Elizabeth in infancy and Maxine; and two brothers, Harold and Howard.

[Part of the Darrell Easton Obit Collection; source: Sioux City Journal]