Ackerman, Susan Suderman (1915-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 May 24 p. 8

Birth date: 1915 Mar 13

text of obituary:

SUSAN ACKERMAN

Susan Ackerman, 89, of rural Chenoa, Ill., died April 4, 2004, at Livingston Manor in Pontiac. She was born March 13, 1915, to Cornelius and Anna Kroeker Suderman in Comins, Mich.

She graduated from Midland (Mich.) High School and went through nurses training at Mennonite Hospital in Bloomington.

She married Frank Ackerman on Feb. 18, 1945, in Highland Park, Mich.

She was a homemaker and a part-time registered nurse at Mennonite Hospital in Bloomington, at Detroit (Mich.) Hospital and Fairbury Hospital for many years. She retired in 1993.

She was a member of Meadows Mennonite Church. She volunteered at Meadows Home and the Spare and Share Shop in Gridley. She was active in Women in Mission in her church and was a member of South Chenoa Circle Card Club.

Survivors include her husband, Frank; a son, Ronald and his wife, Nga, of Chenoa; three daughters, Joyce Baergen and her husband, Donald, of Edmonton, Alta., Lois Smith and her husband, Rex, of Park Ridge; and Doris Egli and her husband, David, of Kansas City, Mo.; a brother, Bernard Suderman of Topeka, Ind.; two sisters, Katherine Glenn of Dixon and Elizabeth Suderman of Sumpter, S.C.; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held at Meadows Mennonite Church. Burial was in Pike Township Cemetery, rural Chenoa.