Bucher, Margaret Mae Mininger (1917-1987)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 30 Apr 1987 p. 11

Birth date: 1917

text of obituary:

MARGARET M. BUCHER

Margaret Mae Mininger Bucher, 69, a resident of Harman, W.Va., died at her home March 24, 1987, following an extended illness.

She was born May 9, 1917, in Hatfield, Pa., to Henry and Sally Schlosser Mininger.

In 1946, she and her physician husband, Samuel, moved to West Virginia where they spent their lives in service to the Appalachian people. She has also served the broader church as a retreat speaker and WMSC leader.

She was a member of Lanesville Mennonite Church, the Harman Extension Club and Willing Workers Sewing Circle. She was a nurse, Sunday school teacher and crafts teacher. She helped found the Old Mill, Harman, and the Pioneer Memorial Library.

Survivors include her husband, Samuel J.; two sons, Samuel Jonathan Bucher of Harman; two daughters, Sarah Ellen (Mrs. Herbert) Myers of Jackson, Miss., and Mary Beth (Mrs. Lester) Lind of Harman; one sister, Gertrude Mininger Zeigler of Hatfield, Pa.; three grandsons and four granddaughters.

Transcribed by Ralph Shetler, Oregon