Alma Louise Striffler

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Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, January 27, 1966

Services held for Lifelong Resident

Funeral services for Mrs. Alma McKenzie, 72, lifelong resident, were held Wednesday afternoon at Little's Funeral Home following her death Monday, Jan. 24, at the Sunny Acres Nursing Center in Elkton where she had been a patient for one month. She had been in ill health for the past six months.

Born March 11, 1893, in Cass City, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Striffler. She married Clayton Schenck in Cass City in 1913 and they made their home here until he died in 1919. In 1939 she married William McKenzie. He died in 1962.

Mrs. McKenzie was a Cass City postal clerk for 16 years and was a lifetime member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Surviving are: a daughter, Mrs. Jack (Ruth( Esau of Cass City; a son, Donald Schenck of Napoleon; a sister, Mrs. Harry Falkenhagen, Bradenton, Fla., and two brothers, Leonard Striffler of Cass City and Louis Striffler of Detroit.

Also surviving are: a stepdaugher, Mrs. Albert (Marie) Jones of Decker; nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. A brother and sister preceded her in death.

Rev. Stanley P. Kirn, retired EUB minister, officiated and interment was in the family lot in Elkland Cemetery.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Winter 2007)

Alma married Clayton Arthur Schenck on 29 Apr 1913 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. Clayton was born on 30 May 1891 in Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 17 Sep 1919 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alma married William George McKenzie about 1939. William was born on 16 Sep 1881 in Gagetown, Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 21 Jun 1962 in Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried on 23 Jun 1962 in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Donald married Genevieve M. Ruede on 23 Apr 1938 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. Genevieve was born on 21 Jan 1916 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan; died on 16 May 2006 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cass City Chronicle
Cass City, Michigan, Friday, March 16, 1934
Vol. 23, Number 49

Miss Ruth Schenck who will be valedictorian of the Class of 1934, Cass City High School, has the unusual distinction of completing her courses of study with all "A" marks during her four years of high school here.

Cass City Chronicle
Friday, July 12, 1940
Page Five

Miss Ruth Schenck entertained five friends at a picnic supper at Caseville on Friday evening in honor of her guest, Miss Marguerite Hertel, of East Lansing. Miss Hertel and Miss Schenck are roommates while attending summer school at Central State Teachers' College at Mt. Pleasant, and they spent the Fourth and the following weekend with Miss Schenck's mother, Mrs. William McKenzie.

In the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, Volume 9, September 2, 1946, it was reported that Ruth Schenck taught a term in the Newington Home for Crippled Children in Conneticut, and was going to teach kindergarten in Cass City in the current year.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008)

Ruth Esau was one of the cousins of BonnieMargaret Jacobs who searched their Bibles and records and picture collections to provide information for her 1981 manuscipt about the history of the Benkelman family.

Obituary:

Ruth Eleanor Schenck Esau, 90, of Cass City, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 at Hills and Dales General Hospital, Cass City.

Esau was born June 16, 1917 in Cass City on the family farm, the daughter of the late Clayton Schenck and Alma Striffler Schenck McKenzie.

She married John "Jack" Esau June 10, 1948 in Cass City.

Esau was a 1934 graduate of Cass City High School. She attended Cass City Junior College in 1935 and then graduated in 1940 as a teacher from Central Michigan University. Esau taught art and kindergarten in the Cass City Public Schools for many years. She worked at Sigma Gamma Hospital in Mt. Clemens and Newington Children's Hospital in CT.

Esau is survived by her husband, Jack; children: Eric Esau of Newbury, VT, Mary Beth (Howard) Bialick of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Anne (Steve) Ballard of Cass City; and 3 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Donald Schenck.

Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held June 15 (time and location to be announced.)

Burial will be in the Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City.

Memorials may be made to Rawson Memorial Library.

Arrangements were made by Thabet Funeral Home, Cass City.

(Cass City Chronicle, Feb. 13, 2008, p. 10.)

Ruth married John "Jack" Alexander Esau on 10 Jun 1948 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. John was born on 30 Jan 1918 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; died on 30 Oct 2011 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]