Funeral Mass for Marie Schwepker of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Cathedral, with Msgr. Richard Rolwing officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7:30.
Schwepker, 90, died Monday, Dec. 16, 1996, at the Lutheran Home.
She was born March 5, 1906, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Goley and Alvenia Schrader Robinson. She and William E. Schwepker were married Dec. 25, 1926, at St. Mary's Cathedral. He died Dec. 13, 1980.
Schwepker was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral.
Survivors include a daughter, Irma Halter of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Irma Schwepker of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son and three brothers.
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