Funeral services will be held here Sunday, Jan. 13, for Milwaukee native Joseph Steven Lepgold, 47, and his son, Appleton native Jordan, 11, of Arlington, Va. They died of smoke inhalation from a hotel fire in Paris on Nov. 24.
Jordan died Nov. 25, Joseph on Dec. 4. Joseph’s wife and Jordan’s mother, Nancy “Nicki” Dean, 50, also a Milwaukee native and an analyst for the Social Security Administration, remains in critical condition in Paris.
Joseph was a professor of government at Georgetown University. The family was in Paris while Lepgold was speaking at a conference on “America, Europe and The World in the 21st Century.”
His colleagues and students said he was passionate about his profession. His classes in international relations were so popular that he enrolled twice the usual number of students.
He had recently published “Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Problem of Policy Relevance” (Columbia University Press). He was the co-author or co-editor of several other books in his field.
Lepgold graduated from John Marshall High School and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he majored in international relations. He received a master’s degree and a doctorate from Stanford University.
Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1990, he was a lecturer at UWM and taught at Lawrence University in Appleton. He held a joint appointment at Georgetown as a member of both the government department and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
He also was an avid baseball fan and devotee of classical music.
Rabbi Harold White from Georgetown will officiate at the service at 2 p.m. at the Family Center at Wisconsin Memorial Park, 13235 W. Capitol Dr., Brookfield. For more information, call 262-790-2244.
Lepgold is survived by his mother, Mildred Lepgold, and his sister, Dr. Edie Lepgold, both of Milwaukee. Jordan is further survived by grandparents Audrey and David Dean of Madison and siblings Christofer (Tracy) Kline and Meghan (Michael) Huss.
A Lepgold Memorial Fund has been established at Georgetown University, c/o Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, 301 Intercultural Center, 37th & O St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20057.
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