Laura Reppert Unger, 85, formerly of Paoli, a volunteer, died of complications from multiple myeloma Monday, March 4, at her home in Dunwoody Village, a retirement community in Newtown Square.
She moved there five years ago after residing in Paoli for more than 40 years.
Mrs. Unger was the widow of Richard C. Unger, longtime president of Unger Chevrolet in Phoenixville. He died in 2010, two weeks before their 60th anniversary.
Mrs. Unger was born in Altoona, Pa., the fourth of six girls. The family lived in Plainfield, N.J., before moving to Alexandria, Va., during World War II.
She graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, where her mother was a teacher. She attended Swarthmore College, her mother's alma mater, and graduated with a degree in English in 1949. It was there that she met her husband, who was in the Class of 1948.
