BREWSTER – George B. Pepper died on May 19, 2011. He made his home in Brewster in 1999, the year he retired from a forty-year career of teaching Philosophy at Iona College.
He received his doctorate from Fordham University and did postdoctoral studies at Harvard and Columbia. He is the author of THE BOSTON HERESY CASE IN VIEW OF THE SECLARIZATION OF RELIGION, 1988; and he reviewed books in the history of Jewish- Christian relations for CROSS CURRENTS. He collaborated with Edith and Leonard H. Ehrlich in editing KARL JASPERS; BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS, 1994. The Ehrlichs and he founded the Karl Jaspers Society of North America. Dr. Pepper also served in the U.S. Navy. 1942-46 as Ph.M.3/C. He is survived by a brother, Sidney; a nephew, David, and a niece, Helen Ann Drobnis, and a close friend Erin Holguin and family.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster, MA at 11am on Monday, June 27th. Burial will follow at the Massachusetts National Cemetery.
