Croyle, Emma N. Stahl (1898-1987)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1987 Sep 3 p. 11

Birth date: 1898 Aug 25

text of obituary:

EMMA N. CROYLE

Emma N. Croyle was born Aug. 25, 1898, the daughter of Jacob G. and Ellen Speicher Stahl in Quemahoning Township, Somerset County, Pa. She died July 4, 1987, at the Apostolic Christian Home, Rittman, Ohio, at age 88. She had resided there 11 days after several days of hospitalization at Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital.

She married Lloyd S. Croyle on June 29, 1918. He preceded her in death on May 26, 1982. She also was preceded in death by three sons, Alan in 1919; Carl in 1927 and Dwayne in 1975, and a daughter, Sara, in 1937. Her parents, four brothers and three sisters also preceded her in death.

She is survived by two sons, Denton E. of Wadsworth, Ohio, and Ellis B. of Archbold, Ohio; a daughter, E. Louise (Mrs. Douglas) Wigle of Vista, Calif.; a brother, Howard Stahl of Sabin, Minn.; a sister, Ruth Brant of Somerset, Pa.; 12 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was a lifelong member of the Mennonite Church in the Johnstown, Pa., area, where she lived until July 1985. She taught Sunday school at the Cambria Fuel Mission, now Carpenter Park Mennonite Church, near Thomas Mills, where she was a member at the time of her death.

Funeral services were held July 8 at the Thomas Mennonite Church with Ellis B. Croyle and Aldus J. Wingard officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Transcribed by Ralph Shetler, Oregon