Stover, Haidie E. Enss (1918-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Oct 7 p. 8

Birth date: 1918

text of obituary:

HAIDIE E. STOVER

Haidie E. Stover, 84, of Souderton, Pa., died unexpectedly July 20, 2002. She was born to Gustav H. and Amy E. Greaves Sudermann Enss in Newton, Kan. She married Earl Stover on June 7, 1942.

She was educated in Kansas, Texas and Indiana and graduated in 1936 from high school in Detroit. She attended business school in Michigan, Goshen College in Indiana and the School of Oral Hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania Dental School in Philadelphia, where she graduated as valedictorian in 1942.

She served as dental hygieneist [sic] with her husband at the Mennonite General Hospital in La Plata, Aibonito, Puerto Rico, and the Ulrich Foundation community health outreach program in Puerto Rico 1944-55. Upon returning to southeastern Pennsylvania, she practiced oral hygiene with her husband in Souderton. For 23 years she also helped her husband establish and maintain a dental clinic for church members and the surrounding Spanish community at First Spanish Baptist Church of Philadelphia.

She was a member of Grace Mennonite Church of Lansdale, where she and her husband were recognized for 40 years of service to the Spanish department and the Spanish communities of North Penn, Delaware and Lehigh valleys. She taught Sunday school classes to bilingual children and often contributed as a pianist for worship services.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Earl; a daughter, Ruth Stover; two sons, E. Frederick and his wife, Dianne, and Gerald and his wife, Stephanie; four sisters, Amy Preckshot of Columbia, Mo., Frieda Enss and Ruth Blocksma of Jacksonville, Fla., and Vera Kemp of Sun City West, Ariz.; and a granddaughter.

She was preceded in death by a sister; and two brothers and sisters of the Sudermann family.

Funeral services were held at Grace Mennonite Church of Lansdale. Burial was in Blooming Glen Mennonite Cemetery.