Scheurer, Mary 1899 - 1992

SCHEURER, HUGHES, WILLIAMS, JONES

Posted By: Bill Waters (email)
Date: 10/11/2010 at 13:02:46

Funeral services for Mary Scheurer were held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Lime Springs. The Rev. Gale Chilson officiated. Interment was in the Cedar Hill Cemetery rural Cresco Lindstrom Funeral Home in Lime Springs was in charge of arrangements.

She died Sunday morning, May 10, 1992, at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Elma where she had resided for about one month. She was 92.

Mary Ellen Hughes was born October 14, 1899, the oldest child of Travor E. and Jennie Ellen (Williams) Hughes. She grew up on the family farm in Albion Township.

In August of 1926, she married Joshua Scheurer. They farmed for a number of years, and then moved to Florenceville where they lived until after the death of her husband in 1937. She then did house¬work and cared for sick people for many years.

In her youth, she joined the Bonair Methodist Church. Later, while living in Lime Springs, she changed her membership to the Lime Springs Presbyterian Church which she attended regularly as long as able. She had been a resident of the Howard Residential Care Facility for over a year.

She is survived by two sisters, Grace Hughes and Phoebe Jones, cousins and friends.

Preceding her in death were her husband, her parents and one brother, Robert Hughes.

Source: Cresco Times May 13, 1992