Hunsberger, Gladys Barbara (1913-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Apr 7 p. 11

Birth date: 1913 Feb 17

text of obituary:

GLADYS B. HUNSBERGER

Gladys Barbara Hunsberger, 90, of Batavia, Ill., formerly of Glen Ellyn, died March 25, 2003. She was born Feb. 17, 1913, to Samuel and Sally Yoder in Columbus, N.D.

She graduated in 1930 from Surrey (N.D.) High School and in 1934 from Wesley Memorial Hospital Nursing School in Chicago.

She married Harvey S. Hunsberger on July 23, 1939, in Chicago.

She worked as a nurse in Chicago and in Wheaton, where they moved in 1951. She was a member of the Mennonite church in Lombard, where she served as a Sunday school teacher, secretary, librarian and pastoral team member for many years. She enjoyed teaching English as a second language to many of her neighbors seeking American citizenship. She moved to Glen Ellyn about 1979, where she spent many hours as a volunteer for Cross Cultural Crafts, now Ten Thousand Villages, which supports fairly-traded merchandise. She moved to The Holmstad retirement home in Batavia in 1996.

Survivors include two sons, Gerald Hunsberger and his wife, Marcia, of Espanola, N.M., and Kurt Hunsberger and his wife, Bobbi, of Elizabeth City, N.C.; four grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; a sister-in-law, Edna Yoder, of Batavia; and a brother-in-law, Lloyd Hunsberger of Cleveland, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harvey S. Hunsberger, in 1975; and by her two brothers, Floyd and Durbin Yoder.

Memorial services were held at The Holmstad.