Schumacher, Vera LaVahn Amstutz (1915-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Feb 26 p. 8

Birth date: 1915 Jun 4

text of obituary:

VERA SCHUMACHER

Vera LaVahn Schumacher, 91, of Bluffton, Ohio, died Feb. 16, 2007, at Mennonite Memorial Home after a brief illness. She was born June 4, 1915, to Ephraim and Ida Steiner Amstutz in Richland Township, rural Bluffton.

On June 1, 1945, she married Harold P. Schumacher. He preceded her in death on March 16, 1996.

She was a homemaker, wife and mother. In her early years she worked at Ruffs in Bluffton. She was an active volunteer at the MCC Et Cetera Shop in Bluffton for 23 years and loved creating floral arrangements from donated materials for resale.

As a longtime member of Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora, she served as a Sunday school teacher, deacon and a member of Women in Mission.

She attended Bucher School and was a graduate of Bluffton High School. During World War II, she joined her husband in Civilian Public Service at the Exeter Training School in Rhode Island.

Survivors include two sons, Thomas J. Schumacher and his wife, Joyce, and Timothy R. Schumacher and his wife, Janet, both of Pandora; two daughters, Nancy L. Neff and her husband, Robert, of Bluffton, and Susan Cook and her husband, Charles, of Toledo; 14 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold; four brothers, Clarence U., Francis, Allen and Willis Amstutz; four sisters, Lillian M. Amstutz, Burdella Geiger, Mabel Jones and Rhoda Burkholder; and an infant son, Eugene Paul Schumacher.

Services were held at Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora. Burial was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Pandora.