D. Jean Pieper

God called our Mom, Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother home on February 12, 2025.
Dorothy Jean Pieper was born May 31, 1921 to Roy E. McGuire and Ruby Hodges McGuire on their farm in Whiteland, IN. While she enjoyed traveling in the US and internationally, Jean's 103 and 3/4 years were well lived in Indiana. At a young age her family moved to Brown County to the home where her Dad was born and raised. She attended her first eight school years in a one-room school house, graduating from Helmsburg High School. She received her Associates Degree at Indiana Business College and, well into her eighties, Jean took classes at Franklin College.
Prior to World War II, while working at REMC in Columbus, IN she met and married her children's father. In 1945, Jean began her 34-year career at Eli Lilly, steadily rising in responsibility until retiring as Laboratory Manager in Radioactivity Accounting handling samples for Scientists.
Steadfast in her fellowship, Jean was an 80-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, serving many offices including Worthy Matron, Page to the Indiana Grand Chapter and District Deputy for Southern Indiana and West Virginia.
The last seventeen years Jean lived comfortably at the Indiana Masonic Home where she enjoyed the companionship of many friends, caretakers and staff.
Proceeding Jean in death were her Mother and Dad, husband Al Pieper, friend Jim Rund, her brothers Lester, Thomas "Pat" and Robert "Sonny" McGuire, sister Norma McGuire Young, her sons in law, Thomas Kindt, Richard Hubbard and several nieces and nephews. Surviving, daughter Margie, "Marnie" Kindt Hubbard, son Larry "Pete" (Dorothy) Orrell, grandsons Tom (Lisa) and Brent Hubbard, great grandsons Calvin and Grady Hubbard and several nieces.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 from 11:00 AM until the time of service at 1:00 PM at G. H. Herrmann Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 5141 Madison Avenue, Indianapolis, IN.
Jean will be laid to rest in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenwood, IN.
In lieu of flowers, donations in her name can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project or your favorite charity.
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