Laura Eyler Rappleye
An Agricultural researcher Services and a retired educator, services will be held in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Maryland College Park.
Mrs. Rappleye, who grew up in Baltimore, passed of cancer at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del.
Born in Charlotte, N.C., she moved to Baltimore as a young child. She advanced quickly through school, graduating in 1937 from Western High School at age 15.
She then became one of the youngest students and one of a very few women admitted to the University of Maryland college of agriculture. She received a bachelor of science degree in botany in 1941.
During World War II, she taught a variety of subjects in the St. Mary's County school system. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she lived in College Park and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville research center.
From 1962, she taught biology to students at DuVal and Parkdale High schools in Prince George's County. After her retirement in 1977, she moved from College Park to South Bethany Beach, Del.
In the early 1940s, she married Robert D. Rappleye. He passed in 1986.
She was a former Girl Scout leader and past president of the College Park branch of the American Association of University Women.
She is survived by a son, Robert D. Rappleye II of Ocean City; a daughter, Lauralee Rappleye-Marsett of New Castle, Del.; two brothers, George M. Eyler of Pikesville and John D. Eyler Jr. of North Palm Beach, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - Sunday, April 26, 1992
An Agricultural researcher Services and a retired educator, services will be held in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Maryland College Park.
Mrs. Rappleye, who grew up in Baltimore, passed of cancer at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del.
Born in Charlotte, N.C., she moved to Baltimore as a young child. She advanced quickly through school, graduating in 1937 from Western High School at age 15.
She then became one of the youngest students and one of a very few women admitted to the University of Maryland college of agriculture. She received a bachelor of science degree in botany in 1941.
During World War II, she taught a variety of subjects in the St. Mary's County school system. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she lived in College Park and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville research center.
From 1962, she taught biology to students at DuVal and Parkdale High schools in Prince George's County. After her retirement in 1977, she moved from College Park to South Bethany Beach, Del.
In the early 1940s, she married Robert D. Rappleye. He passed in 1986.
She was a former Girl Scout leader and past president of the College Park branch of the American Association of University Women.
She is survived by a son, Robert D. Rappleye II of Ocean City; a daughter, Lauralee Rappleye-Marsett of New Castle, Del.; two brothers, George M. Eyler of Pikesville and John D. Eyler Jr. of North Palm Beach, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - Sunday, April 26, 1992
Laura Eyler Rappleye
An Agricultural researcher Services and a retired educator, services will be held in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Maryland College Park.
Mrs. Rappleye, who grew up in Baltimore, passed of cancer at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del.
Born in Charlotte, N.C., she moved to Baltimore as a young child. She advanced quickly through school, graduating in 1937 from Western High School at age 15.
She then became one of the youngest students and one of a very few women admitted to the University of Maryland college of agriculture. She received a bachelor of science degree in botany in 1941.
During World War II, she taught a variety of subjects in the St. Mary's County school system. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she lived in College Park and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville research center.
From 1962, she taught biology to students at DuVal and Parkdale High schools in Prince George's County. After her retirement in 1977, she moved from College Park to South Bethany Beach, Del.
In the early 1940s, she married Robert D. Rappleye. He passed in 1986.
She was a former Girl Scout leader and past president of the College Park branch of the American Association of University Women.
She is survived by a son, Robert D. Rappleye II of Ocean City; a daughter, Lauralee Rappleye-Marsett of New Castle, Del.; two brothers, George M. Eyler of Pikesville and John D. Eyler Jr. of North Palm Beach, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - Sunday, April 26, 1992
An Agricultural researcher Services and a retired educator, services will be held in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Maryland College Park.
Mrs. Rappleye, who grew up in Baltimore, passed of cancer at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del.
Born in Charlotte, N.C., she moved to Baltimore as a young child. She advanced quickly through school, graduating in 1937 from Western High School at age 15.
She then became one of the youngest students and one of a very few women admitted to the University of Maryland college of agriculture. She received a bachelor of science degree in botany in 1941.
During World War II, she taught a variety of subjects in the St. Mary's County school system. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she lived in College Park and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville research center.
From 1962, she taught biology to students at DuVal and Parkdale High schools in Prince George's County. After her retirement in 1977, she moved from College Park to South Bethany Beach, Del.
In the early 1940s, she married Robert D. Rappleye. He passed in 1986.
She was a former Girl Scout leader and past president of the College Park branch of the American Association of University Women.
She is survived by a son, Robert D. Rappleye II of Ocean City; a daughter, Lauralee Rappleye-Marsett of New Castle, Del.; two brothers, George M. Eyler of Pikesville and John D. Eyler Jr. of North Palm Beach, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - Sunday, April 26, 1992
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