Studer, Marilyn Kreider (1930-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Sep 22 p. 8

Birth date: 1930

text of obituary:

MARILYN K. STUDER

Marilyn K. Studer, 73, of Lansdale, Pa., died Sept. 12, 2003, in the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a result of injuries sustained when she was struck by a car. She was born to Ward and Myrtle (Miller) Kreider in Wadsworth, Ohio.

She attended Goshen (Ind.) College and the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her master's degree in elementary education at Beaver College, now Arcadia University, in Glenside.

She married Gerald C. Studer on June 16, 1950. He was pastor at Plains Mennonite Church in Hatfield for 17 years. They lived in Lansdale since 1973 and formerly lived in Scottdale and Smithville, Ohio.

Most of her working years were spent in elementary education. She began her career in Scottdale, where she taught Head Start for four years. After moving to Lansdale, she was a first-grade teacher at Penn View Christian School in Souderton for 26 years. After retirement, she worked part time at the Souderton Brethren in Christ Church preschool for four years, and was a tutor at Teach Me Tutoring of Souderton until this year.

She was an active member of the served where they lived and faithfully helped her husband in his ministry. She and her husband taught at the graduate seminary in Pune, India, in 1984. For a number of years, she served as secretary to the Calvary Hour Radio Ministry.

She will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother and as a gifted teacher. She loved her family and the children she taught.

Survivors include her husband, Gerald; two daughters, Jerri Longacre and her husband, Glen, of Port Deposit, Md., and Maria DiDomenico and her fiance, Robert Fluck of Harleysville; a brother, Robert Kreider of Florida; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Mindy, and a brother, Sidney Kreider.

Services were held at Plains Mennonite Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.