Sister Margaret M. (Martha Ann) Kasper, BVM

Sister Margaret M. (Martha Ann) Kasper, BVM, 91, died Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, at Mount Carmel Bluffs in Dubuque, Iowa.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Burial is in the Mount Carmel Cemetery.

She was born on Feb. 4, 1930, in Mills, Wyo., to Joseph and Martha (Congleton) Kasper. She entered the BVM congregation Feb. 2, 1948, from St. Anthony, Casper, Wyo. She professed first vows on Aug. 15, 1950, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1955.

Sister Margaret ministered as an elementary teacher at St. Peter in Clermont, Iowa. She also taught in Sioux City, Iowa; Chicago, Round Lake, and Grayslake, Ill.; and was an elementary teacher and principal in Emmetsburg, Iowa; Lead, S.D.; and Denver.

Also in Denver, she served as the manager and executive director for an independent living retirement community, a pastoral associate at a Catholic parish, and the director of volunteers and services for outreach programs to the poor.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Lois Tollennar, Joan Hardin, Mary Price, and twin Catherine Brunel; and brothers Joseph, George, Michael, Dick, and David Kasper.

She is survived by a sister Patricia Cheney, Casper, Wyo.; brothers John “Jack” Kasper, Grand Junction, Colo.; and Thomas Kasper, Riverton, Wyo.; sister-in-law Carol Kasper, Cheyenne, Wyo.; nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be given to Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, IA 52003 or make an online gift.