Stuckey, Dinah Florence Schumacher (1888-1947)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Feb 13 p. 6

Birth date: 1888 Nov 2

text of obituary:

MRS. FLORENCE STUCKEY

Dinah Florence Schumacher was born near Bluffton, Ohio, on November 2, 1888, the daughter of Jacob and Dinah Oberly Schumacher. She departed to her eternal rest on January 16, 1947, at the Mennonite hospital in Bloomington, Ill., after a lingering illness, having spent the last five months of her life in the hospital.

She received her early education in the schools near Bluffton, Ohio, and graduated from Bluffton College in the class of 1926. She taught public school music in the Bluffton and Pandora, Ohio, schools while attending Bluffton College. Early in life she accepted Christ as her Saviour and united with the Ebenezer Mennonite church. She was endowed with a rich soprano voice and used great diligence in exercising her talents for the glory of God.

For the greater part of her life she taught Sunday School classes in the various communities in which she resided. She was teaching a class at the Carlock, Ill., Mennonite church until failing health caused her to retire from the work.

She was always active in the ministry of music and sang in the Bluffton College girls’ glee club and vesper choir and in various church choirs. While residing in Bluffton she was assistant director of the First Mennonite church choir and was director of the Grace church choir of Pandora. For the past six years she directed the Carlock, Ill., choir. The last time she was able to direct was part of the Easter vesper service last year. After her graduation from college she taught in the high schools of Marion, South Dakota, and Sycamore, Ohio.

On June 10, 1928 she was united in marriage to Carl H. Stuckey of Carlock, Ill., by her brother-in-law, Rev. Elmer Basinger at Wayland, Iowa. To this union one son, James, was born, who with her husband survives. Three sisters also survive: Mrs. Caroline Basinger, Summerfield, Ill.; Mrs. Hulda Morse of Upland, California; and Mrs. Verna Luginbuhl of Toledo, Ohio. One brother, Menno Schumacher of Dalto, Ohio, also survives. Her parents and three brothers and three sisters preceded her in death.

Her life was fully consecrated to her Master and her home. In sickness her kind consideration, her patient suffering and her devoted faith in her Saviour was an inspiration to all who knew her. In health she gave freely of her time and talent; in death her influence and spirit live on as a testimony of the saving power of her Christ.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, January 19, at the Carlock Mennonite church in charge of Rev. Raymond L. Hartzler, Bloomington, Ill., assisted by Rev. Lotus Troyer, pastor of the Carlock church. Two numbers of music, “My God and I,” and “Near To The Heart of God,” were touchingly rendered by the choir which she had so long directed. At the close of the service Mrs. Wm. Schad softly played “Goin’ Home.” Interment was in the North Danvers Mennonite cemetery.