CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) -Francie Pepper learned as a child how easily someone else could define her life.
Growing up in Mount Auburn, across the street from her father’s workplace at Christ Hospital, everyone knew her as “Dr. Stanley Garber’s daughter,” according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Later, after marrying the future Procter & Gamble CEO, she grew accustomed to people referring to her as “John Pepper’s wife.” While raising her four children, she was known to teachers and friends as “David’s mom” or “Susan’s mom.”
But while Francie Pepper was proudly all those things, she never was only those things. She built a life of her own rooted in activism, philanthropy and a belief in the value of speaking up for those struggling to speak for themselves…