Mary "Angela" Lapadat

Loving wife and mother, Angela, was a woman with immense faith who devoted her life to raising nine children and being a friend to anyone with whom she connected. Angela passed peacefully on Sunday surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

Born in Indianapolis, IN, to Herman and Edrie Koers, Angela attended Marion College in Indianapolis, where she met Arthur “Art” Lapadat at a school dance. The couple married on August 1, 1959, spent a brief time in Kansas, and then settled in Hammond, IN, to begin a family and Art’s teaching career. The family moved to Indianapolis in 1969 to be closer to Angela’s family, and Angela was blessed to live the past 56 years in the same home close to all the people she held most dear in life.

Angela was preceded in death by her husband, Art, her beloved daughter Julianna Grace, her parents, Herman and Edrie Koers, and three siblings (Herman Koers Jr., Vincent Koers, and Suzanna Heidloff), with whom she has been reunited. Angela is survived by eight of her children, David, Mary (Tapolsky), Michael, Nicholas, Andrew, Stephen, Elizabeth (Rinehart), and Sarah, 21 grandchildren, and 6 great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, February 14, 2025 at 12:00 pm at St. Roch Catholic Church (3600 S. Pennsylvania St.), preceded by a public viewing at St. Roch Catholic Church from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. A Celebration of Life will follow the internment service at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to your favorite charity in Angela’s memory. May God bless Angela, the Lapadat and Koers families, and all those who were lucky enough to have known this saintly and remarkable women.