Mary Alice Recuper, 78 – Port City every day

Wilmington – Mary Recuper, at 78, died on February 3, 2025 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Mary was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946 to two World War II veterans (Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Owens and Charles Burry Owens.

Her parents moved the family to Myville, Pennsylvania, a journey history history, which almost settled in the Great Waterfall, Montana, but eventually made an end to the myvil. Mary grew up at Stan Road, worked at Brown Shoe Company, participated in the AV and 4-H clubs and read and sew his way to MEADVILLE High School, and then enrolled in the US Navy.

Mary met with Pete Recuper in Virginia Beach while serving at the Navy. The two married in 1967 at a simple Peace Justice Ceremony in which Trotts were laid. When Pete is located in Vietnam, Mary returns to Myvil, where their daughter Lisa was born in 1969. After Pete returns from her tour, they move to St. Louis, Mo, where Mary conducts anthropology lessons captured in Written form Recoupero -Family Macaronoon Sauceptee, I saw IKE & Tina Turner introduced and was the mother whom all the children listened to when she told them not to pull the leaves from the trees because the trees also had feelings. The family spent the next decades after Pete’s career to Colorado, Illinois and New York, where Mary works on real estate and eventually joins IBM, where he works as a secretary managing the leaders. He and Pete took a few more hops with IBM one in Austin, Texas and finally Raleigh, where the two retired in 2000.

After her retirement, Mary began gardening, reading and managing her eBay Empire Antique Resale Business full -time at their home in Wake Forest, North Carolina as Pete was stuck in the garage. She found her passion for Bonsai after they moved to Wilmington in 2005. She traveled and studied bonsai across the country and was the previous president of Cape Fersai’s bonsai society. Mary shared her huge Bonsai collection and knowledge among many club members while holding regular workshops at home.

A force with which he had to comply with, Mary was an unbreakable spirit that could not only give you time, but also the history of the clock. She did not suffer from fools or hooligans. She exposed the best of you. And if you didn’t deliver, she would pull her glasses on her nose to you, touch her brass key on the counter and tell you what is. She had the most sophisticated writing, the most beautiful hands, a deep laughter of the abdomen and the heart two sizes too large. Her manager, encyclopedic knowledge, wit and silent, unwavering love will be deeply, deeply missed by her family and friends.

Mary is preceded by death by her parents, Mary and Charles and her son -in -law Jacob Wichard. Survives her husband at 58, Pete Recuper; Daughter Lisa Wichardon, Colorado; her brother Tom Owens and his wife Patty Ganyard from Pomona, Illinois; Two sisters, Linda Peelman and her husband Bill, and Beth Chapel, all of Myvil, Pennsylvania; And her granddaughter Josephine Verd of Gunizon, Colorado.

A holiday of life will be held on a future date.

Instead of flowers, the family asks here the memories and condolences to be shared.

Donations are made on ACLU or a local food closet.