Magdalyn Amy Guldberg, nee Kaepernick, 92, of Palos Park, IL, was called home to heaven on Monday, November 20, 2017.   She passed away peacefully at home.   She was born March 1, 1925 in Iron Ridge Wisconsin, the only child of Lauretta nee Volkmann and Albert Kaepernick.

Mags was a founding member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Downers Grove, and a regular Bible Class attendee.   With her husband, she worked at painting and staining on the original church, and later helped with the building addition remodeling.    Throughout her life, she was active in the church, sang in the church choir, and cheerfully volunteered wherever she could.

Mags attended Bethany Lutheran High School in Mankato, MN, where she met the love of her life and future husband, Harold.  After Bethany, she enrolled at the University of Minnesota and completed two years before leaving to attend the Ray Vogue School of Fashion Design before finding a job as an ad agency typist.   Magdalyn and Harold were married on August 23, 1947, in Beaver Dam, WI, and they moved to the Ashburn neighborhood of Chicago.   They raised 3 children in Chicago and Downers Grove, during which time Mags volunteered at Christ Hospital, served as Publicity Chairperson of the Lakeside Chapter of the Infant Welfare League, and worked at the Lewellyn Studio.   A talented seamstress, she created amazing costumes and also sewed custom draperies.   Mags and Harold retired in 1980 to Wautoma, WI, where they built their dream home on a wooded lot overlooking a pond. Together they cleared the land to create a three hole golf course, "Loose Links", and seven gardens of flowers and vegetables.    Winters were spent in New Braunfels, TX.   After 20 years in Wisconsin, they moved to Carillon Lakes in Crest Hill.   After 63 years of marriage, Harold went home to his Savior Jesus in heaven in 2011. In 2012, Mags moved to Peace Village in Palos Park, where she continued to play bridge, taught herself to knit prayer shawls for cancer patients, and was a "friendly neighbor" to all.    She was a talented award-winning watercolor artist, and an avid bridge player.

Mags will be dearly missed by her children, Erik (Barbara) Guldberg, Kristine Guldberg, and Laura (Chuck) Febel; her grandchildren, Kari Guldberg, Nils (Annie) Guldberg, Kjerstin Guldberg, Melissa (Jeff) Dimitri, Meg Febel, John Febel, and Alexa Febel; and her great-grandchildren, Thorsen and Conan Guldberg, and Eleanor, Madalyn and Levi Dimitri.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Scholarship Fund, 11831 N. Seminary Drive, Mequon, WI 53092 or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are appreciated.