Sutter, Elsie Elizabeth Eash (1920-2010)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Aug 2 p. 13

Birth date: 1920 Feb 18

text of obituary:

ELSIE SUTTER

Elsie Elizabeth Eash Sutter, 90, of Goshen, Ind., died June 28, 2010, at Greencroft Healthcare after a lengthy illness. She was born Feb. 18, 1920, to Sem K. and Suie (Blough) Eash in Johnstown, Pa.

She married Clayton Sutter on Oct. 8, 1943, in Springs, Pa.

She worked as co-administrator at the Home for the Aged in Eureka, Ill., from 1946 to 1956 and lived in Goshen since 1963. Until her retirement, she taught fourth grade at Chamberlain Elementary School in Goshen. She was a member of East Goshen Mennonite Church and was formerly on the Walnut Hill Daycare board of directors and a member of the National Education Association. She volunteered at Goshen Hospice beginning in 1988 and at Greencroft beginning in 1989.

Survivors include her husband, Clayton; a son, Sem Sutter and his partner, John Easton, of Chicago; three daughters, Miriam Lapp and her husband, Stephen, of West Liberty, Ohio, Beth Sutter and Ruth Sutter, both of Philadelphia; three sisters, Mabel Lehman and her husband, Owen, of Hollsopple, Pa., Florence Livengood and her husband, Guy, of Grantsville, Md., and Esther Yoder of Goshen; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Ruth Yoder.