Esmonde, Susann Mae Bowsher (1937-2008)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Feb 11 p. 9

Birth date: 1937 Mar 13

text of obituary:

SUSANN MAE ESMONDE

Susann Mae Esmonde, 70, of Lima, Ohio, died Jan. 4, 2008. She was born March 13, 1937, to Adrian and Emma Lucille Stemen Bowsher in Lima.

On Sept. 28, 1957, she married Larry Esmonde.

She retired in December 2007 from the Lima schools adult education program and from Northside Mennonite Child Care Center, where she had served as treasurer for 37 years. She was a life member of Lima Mennonite Church, where she served on various committees and taught Sunday school. Her world revolved around her husband, children, grandchildren and her extended family and numerous friends.

Survivors include her husband, Larry; a son, Michael Esmonde and his wife, Laura, of Lima; two daughters, Kelley Jones and her husband, Gary, of Lima, and Jill Donovan and her husband, Richard, of Carrsville, Va.; her mother, Emma Bowsher; three brothers, Charles Bowsher, Thomas Bowsher and David Bowsher, all of Lima; a sister, Dorothy Danner of Lima; and nine grandchildren.

Services were held at Chiles-Laman Funeral Homes’ Shawnee Chapel. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.