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Services for Mary Pape, 77, formerly of Hawkeye, were held Thursday, Sept. 20, at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Eldorado. 

Burial was in the West Union Cemetery.

Becker-Milnes Funeral Home of Hawkeye was in charge of arrangements.

Mary died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, following a long battle with dementia.

Marilyn Rosella Vagts was born Dec. 3, 1940, the youngest of the five children of Lawrence and Mabel Vagts of Eldorado. 

She was baptized and confirmed at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Eldorado.

Following graduation from North High School, West Union, in 1958, she went to Minneapolis to work for Hardware Mutual as a file clerk. 

In 1960, Mary returned to Eldorado, and on June 11, she married Daryl Pape. 

The couple began their married life on a farm two miles northeast of Eldorado, along the Turkey River. In 1966, Mary and Daryl bought a farm just west of Hawkeye, where they moved with their two young daughters, Janell and Joleen. In 1967, son Darren was born, completing their family.

In 1974, Daryl and Mary sold their milk cows and purchased Lauer Implement. Mary worked as a bookkeeper for Pape Implement & Appliance until the couple’s retirement in 2008. She also started working as a clerk in the Hawkeye Post Office in 1992 and later became a PMR (Postmaster Relief). 

Mary rode twice on RAGBRAI as a member of the Alpine Pedalers, and she was known to roller skate into town when the road past their house was newly paved. 

She was a member of Dorcas Circle and sang in the church choir at Trinity Lutheran Church. 

She enjoyed snowmobiling with neighbors, volunteered on the Hawkeye Community Hall board, Hawkeye Businessmen’s Association, and Hawkeye Historical Club, and helped rebuild the community hall after it was destroyed by fire. Mary also served on the Palmer Memorial Hospital board. 

She enjoyed golfing at Big Rock Country Club in Fayette, and when in her 60s, she helped organize a “Granny Basketball” team of women friends in the Hawkeye community. Mary enjoyed gardening and especially loved firecrackers and playing April Fool’s jokes on her family. 

The couple spent time in Arizona for several winters through 2011.

Mary and Daryl moved into assisted living in May 2016, and Mary became a resident of Maple Crest Nursing Home in Fayette in May 2017.

Survivors include her husband, Daryl, of Fayette; children Janell (Jeff) Bradley of Wadena, Joleen (Scott) Garvin of West Union and Darren (Angel) Pape of Grand Meadow, Minn.; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Irene (Elvin) Anderson of Elgin; three brothers, Donald (Audrey) Vagts of West Union, Kenneth (Evelyn) Vagts and John (Mary Ann) Vagts, all of Eldorado; and sisters-in-law, Kathleen Traeger of Hawkeye and Kay Pape of Sun City, Ariz.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, granddaughter Alison Garvin, several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, and two nieces.

The family suggests memorials to the family or St. Peter Lutheran Church, Eldorado.       39u39

 
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