Portrait of Margaret Pape
VETERAN
with beloved husband Karl VonGlahn

Margaret Pape

February 24, 1919 – April 4, 2017
Lived 98 years
Riverview Cemetery · Roscoe, New York
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Margaret Pape Von Glahn of Groveport, OH, formerly of Livingston Manor, NY and Blooming Grove, NY, a retired dispatcher for Sears Roebuck & Company in Newburgh, NY died Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at her home in Ohio. She was 98.

The daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Bock Pyttlik, she was born February 24, 1919 in Brooklyn, NY.

Survivors include her children, Robert Pape and Susan Pape (Earl); five grandchildren, Jonathan Pape, Deborah Morrison, Michael Earl, Daniel Earl and Jennifer Simpson; seven great grandchildren, McKenna Morrison, Madeline Earl, Gavin Earl, Cooper Earl, Emily Earl, Kadence Simpson and Simon Pape.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Harry Pape; and her second husband, Karl Von Glahn.

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1919
Born February 24
1928
Margaret was 9 when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
1939
Margaret was 20 when World War II began in Europe
1942
Margaret was 23 when Bing Crosby recorded "White Christmas"
1950
Margaret was 31 when the Korean War began
1969
Margaret was 50 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1977
Margaret was 58 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1981
Margaret was 62 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Margaret was 79 when Google was founded
2004
Margaret was 85 when Facebook was launched
2015
Margaret was 96 when "Hamilton" opened on Broadway
2017
Passed away April 4, age 98
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