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- [S179] Obituary, Obituary of Herbert F Pepler.
HERBERT F. PEPLER - Burrillville
01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, December 7, 2004
HERBERT F. PEPLER, 89, of Bayberry Commons, Davis Drive,
Pascoag, a former councilman, and a maintenance man, brewery
worker, driver and weaver before retiring, died Saturday at Our Lady
of Fatima Hospital, in North Providence.
He was the husband of Beatrice (Deroy) Pepler. Born in Burrillville, a
son of the late Herbert F. and Mary (Gilleran) Pepler, he had lived in
the town for 65 years before moving to the Chepachet section of
Glocester in 1980. He moved back to Burrillville 2 years ago.
Mr. Pepler had worked at the Narragansett Brewery's former
Cranston facility for 16 years before retiring in 1978. He previously
had been a driver with Golden Arrow Bus Lines for 12 years and
North Providence Transportation for 15 years; and a weaver, for 25
years, at the former Stillwater Worstered Mills.
In his retirement, he had worked for the Glocester Housing Authority,
as a maintenance worker at Laurel Crest Apartments, in Chepachet.
Mr. Pepler had served as a member of the Burrillville Town Council
for six years, and had been a doorman at the State House for six
years, until 1986.
Active in local politics, he had been a member for 40 years of the
Burrillville Democratic Town Committee. He was a founder of the
former Burrillville Ambulance Association, and a member of the Glocester Senior Citizens.
Mr. Pepler was a communicant of St. Eugene Church, in Chepachet,
where he had served on the finance committee.
Besides his wife, he leaves two two sons, Ronald F. Pepler of
Charlestown and Raymond H. Pepler of Burrillville; eight
grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. He was the brother of
the late William Pepler, Mary Courtemanche and Ruth Merrill.
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