Zofia N. Kepros
April 10, 1901 — December 12, 2002
Zofia N. Kepros, 101, of Marion, died in her home, Thursday, December 12, 2002, from complications of a stroke. Services: 10:00 a.m. Monday, December 16, 2002, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Marion, by the Rev. Scott Boone. Burial: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Marion, where a rosary will be recited at 2 p.m. and a Scripture service will be held at 5 p.m. Friends may also call on Monday from 9 a.m. until service time at the church.
Surviving are Zofia?s children, Ellen Gonzalez (Richard) of East Lansing, Michigan, Stanley G. Kepros (Connie) of Cresco, Sister Mary Julia Kepros, RSM of Cedar Rapids, Michael J. Kepros (Cecelia) of Marion, Stephen J. Kepros of Marion, Katherine Pryst (Joseph) of Chicago, Illinois and Frank Kepros Jr. of Marion; and a sister, Marianna Chelz of Manhattan, Kansas.
Also surviving are twenty-two grandchildren; and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, two sons, Peter F. and James A. Kepros and three sisters.
She was born on April 10, 1901 in Nowapole, Poland. Zofia experienced first hand the Eastern front of World War I beginning in 1914, when the Russian and German armies fought in Zofia?s village. She and her sister, Marianna, left war-torn Poland and immigrated to the United States thru Ellis Island in 1920.
Zofia was united in marriage to Frank P. Kepros on January 13, 1927, in Cedar Rapids and made her home in Marion for seventy-five years. He died in 1958. She was a homemaker who raised nine children and was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She worked at one time at Father Flannagan?s Boys Home in Omaha, Nebraska.
Zofia loved the outdoors and was an astute gardener. She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.
Surviving are Zofia?s children, Ellen Gonzalez (Richard) of East Lansing, Michigan, Stanley G. Kepros (Connie) of Cresco, Sister Mary Julia Kepros, RSM of Cedar Rapids, Michael J. Kepros (Cecelia) of Marion, Stephen J. Kepros of Marion, Katherine Pryst (Joseph) of Chicago, Illinois and Frank Kepros Jr. of Marion; and a sister, Marianna Chelz of Manhattan, Kansas.
Also surviving are twenty-two grandchildren; and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, two sons, Peter F. and James A. Kepros and three sisters.
She was born on April 10, 1901 in Nowapole, Poland. Zofia experienced first hand the Eastern front of World War I beginning in 1914, when the Russian and German armies fought in Zofia?s village. She and her sister, Marianna, left war-torn Poland and immigrated to the United States thru Ellis Island in 1920.
Zofia was united in marriage to Frank P. Kepros on January 13, 1927, in Cedar Rapids and made her home in Marion for seventy-five years. He died in 1958. She was a homemaker who raised nine children and was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She worked at one time at Father Flannagan?s Boys Home in Omaha, Nebraska.
Zofia loved the outdoors and was an astute gardener. She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.
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