1860-1943
Frances Rippel was president of the Home for Aged and Respectable Women from 1929-1934, and a longterm board member and volunteer.
Frances was president of the Heidelberg Guild of the First Reformed Church. She was also active in the Newark Museum, NJ Historical Society and Daughters of the American Revolution. She worked for the Red Cross during World War I.
Frances was born in Chatham, according to her obituary, but is living in Newark by the time of the 1870 census and through 1940. As a child she lived at 15 Baldwin Street, her father was a Newark jeweler. She married Julius Rippel in 1896.
Frances’s husband established the Fannie Rippel Foundation in her honor. The foundation is still active today.
Bibliography
Cummings, Charles, F. Noted Newarkers’ philanthropy kept cultural flame burning. Star Ledger Mar 16, 2000
Census records
“Mrs. Julius Rippel, Broker’s Wife Dies in Newark” Courier News Feb 6, 1943
R22, Rippel, Julius (Mrs.) – Pres. Nwk. Clearing House Assoc. – 1933-, Newark News Morgue
“Mrs. Julius Rippel” New York Times Feb 6, 1943
Rippel Foundation History https://rippelfoundation.org/about-us/history/
Rippel Family Papers, New Jersey Historical Society
“Funeral services Monday..” Newark News Feb 6, 1943
“Funeral Tomorrow…” Sunday Call Feb 7, 1943
“Mrs. JS Rippel, Wife of Banker” Newark News Feb 5, 1943