Roger L. Pape, 87, of Liverpool, passed away February 24, 2023 at home soon after the drastic spread of metastatic melanoma. He was surrounded by family to the end.
Son of Edwin A. and Florence F. Pape of Concordia, MO, he was a graduate of St. Paul Lutheran High School and the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a BSEE in 1958. He was a veteran of the Army artillery. For 35 years he worked at General Electric in the design, development and deployment of information technology, space technology, radar and sonar, and then 10 years at Sensis Corporation working on air traffic control systems. If you feel as strongly about Jack Welch's tenure at GE as Roger did, he suggested you read "The Man Who Broke Capitalism." Roger was a life member of IEEE since its founding in 1963.
Upon retirement, Roger enjoyed spending time with his wife Dot at their family camp (especially when there was a crowd there for "camp breakfast"), canoeing, skiing and snow shoeing. He was still using his chainsaw and performing ladder work through the age of 87, despite blindness and his family's vocal misgivings. He also enjoyed spending his time pursuing genealogy and prosopography, as well as maintaining his website Concordia-Memories.org, where he and others shared history and stories from his small Missouri hometown.
Roger still owned his 1921 Model T, which he restored and drove while in college, and enjoyed driving his '65 Corvette year round, until upstate NY winters got the better of it. He always had a project in the works, or was busy planning the next one.
Roger was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cortland.
Survived by Dorothea F. Pape, his wife of 56 years; his children, David E. (Josephine Anstey) Pape, Cynthia L. (Matthew) Hawks, and Robert E. (Anda Adams) Pape; brother, Donald (Betty) Pape and sister, Mary Beth (Michael) Krueger; grandchildren, Lucy Anstey-Pape, Holly and Sean Hawks, and Tilda and Birk Pape and several nieces & nephews.
Calling Hours will be Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Maurer Funeral Home Moyers Corners, 3541 State Route 31, Baldwinsville, NY with a service to follow at 12:00 noon. Spring burial will be in Pine Plains Cemetery, Clay, NY.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Lutheran World Relief (lwr.org), Hospice of CNY, or a charity of your choice.
The family is very grateful for the assistance of Hospice in the final weeks of Roger's life.
Please sign the Maurer Funeral Home guestbook to express your condolences to Roger's family.
Published by Syracuse Post Standard from Mar. 1 to Mar. 5, 2023.
Son of Edwin A. and Florence F. Pape of Concordia, MO, he was a graduate of St. Paul Lutheran High School and the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a BSEE in 1958. He was a veteran of the Army artillery. For 35 years he worked at General Electric in the design, development and deployment of information technology, space technology, radar and sonar, and then 10 years at Sensis Corporation working on air traffic control systems. If you feel as strongly about Jack Welch's tenure at GE as Roger did, he suggested you read "The Man Who Broke Capitalism." Roger was a life member of IEEE since its founding in 1963.
Upon retirement, Roger enjoyed spending time with his wife Dot at their family camp (especially when there was a crowd there for "camp breakfast"), canoeing, skiing and snow shoeing. He was still using his chainsaw and performing ladder work through the age of 87, despite blindness and his family's vocal misgivings. He also enjoyed spending his time pursuing genealogy and prosopography, as well as maintaining his website Concordia-Memories.org, where he and others shared history and stories from his small Missouri hometown.
Roger still owned his 1921 Model T, which he restored and drove while in college, and enjoyed driving his '65 Corvette year round, until upstate NY winters got the better of it. He always had a project in the works, or was busy planning the next one.
Roger was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cortland.
Survived by Dorothea F. Pape, his wife of 56 years; his children, David E. (Josephine Anstey) Pape, Cynthia L. (Matthew) Hawks, and Robert E. (Anda Adams) Pape; brother, Donald (Betty) Pape and sister, Mary Beth (Michael) Krueger; grandchildren, Lucy Anstey-Pape, Holly and Sean Hawks, and Tilda and Birk Pape and several nieces & nephews.
Calling Hours will be Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Maurer Funeral Home Moyers Corners, 3541 State Route 31, Baldwinsville, NY with a service to follow at 12:00 noon. Spring burial will be in Pine Plains Cemetery, Clay, NY.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Lutheran World Relief (lwr.org), Hospice of CNY, or a charity of your choice.
The family is very grateful for the assistance of Hospice in the final weeks of Roger's life.
Please sign the Maurer Funeral Home guestbook to express your condolences to Roger's family.
Published by Syracuse Post Standard from Mar. 1 to Mar. 5, 2023.
Roger L. Pape, 87, of Liverpool, passed away February 24, 2023 at home soon after the drastic spread of metastatic melanoma. He was surrounded by family to the end.
Son of Edwin A. and Florence F. Pape of Concordia, MO, he was a graduate of St. Paul Lutheran High School and the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a BSEE in 1958. He was a veteran of the Army artillery. For 35 years he worked at General Electric in the design, development and deployment of information technology, space technology, radar and sonar, and then 10 years at Sensis Corporation working on air traffic control systems. If you feel as strongly about Jack Welch's tenure at GE as Roger did, he suggested you read "The Man Who Broke Capitalism." Roger was a life member of IEEE since its founding in 1963.
Upon retirement, Roger enjoyed spending time with his wife Dot at their family camp (especially when there was a crowd there for "camp breakfast"), canoeing, skiing and snow shoeing. He was still using his chainsaw and performing ladder work through the age of 87, despite blindness and his family's vocal misgivings. He also enjoyed spending his time pursuing genealogy and prosopography, as well as maintaining his website Concordia-Memories.org, where he and others shared history and stories from his small Missouri hometown.
Roger still owned his 1921 Model T, which he restored and drove while in college, and enjoyed driving his '65 Corvette year round, until upstate NY winters got the better of it. He always had a project in the works, or was busy planning the next one.
Roger was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cortland.
Survived by Dorothea F. Pape, his wife of 56 years; his children, David E. (Josephine Anstey) Pape, Cynthia L. (Matthew) Hawks, and Robert E. (Anda Adams) Pape; brother, Donald (Betty) Pape and sister, Mary Beth (Michael) Krueger; grandchildren, Lucy Anstey-Pape, Holly and Sean Hawks, and Tilda and Birk Pape and several nieces & nephews.
Calling Hours will be Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Maurer Funeral Home Moyers Corners, 3541 State Route 31, Baldwinsville, NY with a service to follow at 12:00 noon. Spring burial will be in Pine Plains Cemetery, Clay, NY.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Lutheran World Relief (lwr.org), Hospice of CNY, or a charity of your choice.
The family is very grateful for the assistance of Hospice in the final weeks of Roger's life.
Please sign the Maurer Funeral Home guestbook to express your condolences to Roger's family.
Published by Syracuse Post Standard from Mar. 1 to Mar. 5, 2023.
Son of Edwin A. and Florence F. Pape of Concordia, MO, he was a graduate of St. Paul Lutheran High School and the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a BSEE in 1958. He was a veteran of the Army artillery. For 35 years he worked at General Electric in the design, development and deployment of information technology, space technology, radar and sonar, and then 10 years at Sensis Corporation working on air traffic control systems. If you feel as strongly about Jack Welch's tenure at GE as Roger did, he suggested you read "The Man Who Broke Capitalism." Roger was a life member of IEEE since its founding in 1963.
Upon retirement, Roger enjoyed spending time with his wife Dot at their family camp (especially when there was a crowd there for "camp breakfast"), canoeing, skiing and snow shoeing. He was still using his chainsaw and performing ladder work through the age of 87, despite blindness and his family's vocal misgivings. He also enjoyed spending his time pursuing genealogy and prosopography, as well as maintaining his website Concordia-Memories.org, where he and others shared history and stories from his small Missouri hometown.
Roger still owned his 1921 Model T, which he restored and drove while in college, and enjoyed driving his '65 Corvette year round, until upstate NY winters got the better of it. He always had a project in the works, or was busy planning the next one.
Roger was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cortland.
Survived by Dorothea F. Pape, his wife of 56 years; his children, David E. (Josephine Anstey) Pape, Cynthia L. (Matthew) Hawks, and Robert E. (Anda Adams) Pape; brother, Donald (Betty) Pape and sister, Mary Beth (Michael) Krueger; grandchildren, Lucy Anstey-Pape, Holly and Sean Hawks, and Tilda and Birk Pape and several nieces & nephews.
Calling Hours will be Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Maurer Funeral Home Moyers Corners, 3541 State Route 31, Baldwinsville, NY with a service to follow at 12:00 noon. Spring burial will be in Pine Plains Cemetery, Clay, NY.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Lutheran World Relief (lwr.org), Hospice of CNY, or a charity of your choice.
The family is very grateful for the assistance of Hospice in the final weeks of Roger's life.
Please sign the Maurer Funeral Home guestbook to express your condolences to Roger's family.
Published by Syracuse Post Standard from Mar. 1 to Mar. 5, 2023.
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