Stucky, Daniel J. (1884-1975)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Jul 17 p. 8

Birth date: 1884

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Newton and Vicinity

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• Funeral services for Daniel J. Stucky, 91, retired businessman of Moundridge, were held Sunday afternoon at the First Mennonite Church there, with Rev. James Gingerich and Ron Flaming in charge. Mr. Stucky died July 9 at Mercy Hospital. He was the father of Milo Stucky of Lawrence, and of Dale M. and Dean R. Stucky, both of Wichita. Ten grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren also are among the survivors.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Sep 4 p. 11

Birth date:1884 Jun 27

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DANIEL J. STUCKY

Daniel J. Stucky was born two miles south and one-fourth mile west of Moundridge, Kan. on June 27, 1884. Of the six children of Jacob C. and Barbara Preheim Stucky who survived to adulthood, he was the fourth child and the second son.

He grew to young manhood on the family farm. He went to school at old District 51, and later attended Moundridge High School from which he graduated in 1904. He continued his education at Bethel College for a year, ofttimes riding a motorcycle over the ballast bed of the Missouri Pacific tracks between Moundridge and Newton.

As a young man, Dan spent some time as a grain buyer for the Eagle Milling Company in Harper, Kan., and later operated a grain elevator in Moundridge.

He married Anna Stucky on Sept. 11, 1910. The couple made their home in Moundridge where Dan operated the White Front Crash Store with his father-in-law for several years.

In 1915, Dan moved his family to Montana and later to Washington State where he was engaged in farming and ranching for several years. In 1929 the family returned to Kansas. Dan was engaged in the bulk oil business for a period, and later worked with his brother John in the grocery store until his retirement.

Anna died in 1967 after 57 years of marriage. For several years following her death Dan lived alone. In 1970 he retired to the Memorial Home where he lived out his remaining years. He survived all the sibling members of his family by a number of years.

Surviving him are three sons and their wives—Dean and Hulda Stucky, Dale and Vena Stucky, and Milo and Mabel Stucky---as well at 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren Those who survive him remember him as a unique and powerful influence upon their lives. He was kind and gentle in his interaction with others, but by disposition and self-discipline he became endowed with a self-sufficiency which bordered upon the stoical.

He accepted the world as he perceived it and was uncompromising in his faith in God and in the confidence that we live in a universe that is eventually well-ordered and beneficent[sic].

Dan was never a physically robust man. He suffered many illnesses and injuries, but he had a powerful constitution and an indomitable will. He died at Mercy Hospital on July 9, 1975, at the age of 91. His children and children's children rise up and call him blessed.