Career
During her lifetime she was well known of serving others and caring little for herself. This is a small group of people that transports food, clothings and other necessities in a bus every September to institutions such as churches and orphan homes in Poland. From 1996 to 2005 she served as President of the Norwegian WWCTU, World"s Woman"s Christian Temperance Union.
Else Reppen was born in Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder in southern Norway on 14 November 1933 to Nils and Sofie Staaby.
They were a working-class family, her father being Flekkefjord"s first typographer, her mother staying at home with 8 children. After having completed the obligatory primary education, which lasted for 7 years those days, she began working.
Their first child, Sissel Reppen, was born a year later, in 1953. In 1960, Nils Terje Reppen was born.
