- Date Of Death: February 8, 2005
- State: Michigan
Mary Elizabeth Jepson was the youngest of Otto and Mary Krellwitz’s 8 children. She was born in Houghton Hancock, MI, but when she was four the entire family moved to Ionia. She graduated from Saints Peter and Paul Academy and went to work in Lansing for the State of Michigan. In 1936 she married Willis Jepson, a union that lasted until his death in 1997. During her marriage she was an active room mother, Girl Scout leader, Grey Lady Hospital volunteer, member of St. Cecilia’s Rosary Circle, Ionia Country Club and East Hills Racquet Club. After her daughters were grown, she worked part time for the Census Bureau for a period of 8 years. Throughout her life she was a faithful parishoner at Saints Peter and Paul Church. In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by her two brothers, Teddy and Frank, 4 sisters, Aloysia, Helen, Katherine and Mattie, and her beloved grandson, Alex Kopchick. She and Willis had 2 daughters: Mary Beth (Tim) Dorch of Scotch Plains, NJ and Kathleen (Joe) Kopchick of Rochester Hills, MI. Besides her daughters, she is survived by one sister, Genevieve Brownley, and four grandchildren, Timothy and Christopher Dorch, and Mary and Charlie Kopchick.
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