Dr. Margaret E. Pappas

Margaret Eugenia Pappas, M.D., was born June 13, 1960 to William G. Pappas and Helene C. (Arianas) Pappas in Niagara Falls, NY. In early childhood her family moved to NJ where she spent her most of her childhood years.  She passed away on December 3, 2021 at Willow Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation in Vincennes, IN, succumbing to complications of frontotemporal dementia.

Dr. Pappas graduated from Bridgewater Raritan High School West, Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ – New Jersey Medical School, earning multiple academic and athletic honors along the way, competing in cross country and swimming through high school and college.  She completed a family medicine residency at Robert Wood Johnson University/St. Peters Hospital and became Board Certified in Family Medicine.  She married her medical school classmate, Lawrence Roy Dultz, M.D., in 1990 and they have had three daughters, Caroline Rebecca Dultz (fiancé Thomas Przybylowski), Elizabeth Rachel Dultz and Sarah Catherine Dultz.

Margaret practiced family medicine on Long Island, New York while her husband finished his postgraduate training, working in a public clinic and multiple emergency departments.  Later she worked in southern New Jersey in a private practice before ultimately moving to Terre Haute, Indiana in 1996, where she initially was on the faculty of the Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency for the first ten years after arrival and then practiced family medicine at Union Associated Physicians until her retirement in November 2019.

Dr. Pappas was a driven individual of extraordinary energy.  She was a fierce advocate for her patients and a respected member of the Terre Haute medical community.   She received multiple accolades as a faculty member and subsequently as a full time clinician.  She was particularly proud of her years as chairman of Union Hospital’s Ethics Committee.  Even more important to her was raising her daughters, who have become accomplished young women themselves.  Despite a grueling schedule between work and motherhood, she nonetheless made time for gourmet cooking, lifelong athleticism and volunteer work including coaching recreational soccer and working with CASA.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at DeBaun Springhill Chapel from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  In lieu of flowers, you may make a donation in honor of Dr. Pappas to the Association for Frontotemporal Dementia or CASA.  Online condolences may be made to www.debaunfuneralhomes.com.

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