M. O. J. Kreps

Short Name: M. O. J. Kreps
Full Name: Kreps, M. O. J., Mrs.

Early 20th Century

Died: Before 1937.

As of 1904, Kreps was editor of the Lutheran Church Visitor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the South. In 1919, she was living in Columbia, South Carolina. She was an active community leader, serving as president of the local Silver Cross Circle of the King’s Daughters and Sons, and of the South Carolina branch, and edited the monthly community newspaper, The Spinner. In 1936, the Women’s Missionary Society of the South Carolina Synod donated $5,000 to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Anderson, South Carolina, in her honor; at that time, she was referred to as the Society’s "deceased president." Kreps’ works include:

Aunt Dinah’s Starry Crown (Lutheran Board of Publication, 1910)

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