Berne Witness, Monday, October 20, 1913

Mrs. Rachel Stuckey

Mrs. Rachel Stuckey, nee Snyder, was born in Hartford township, Adams Co., Indiana, Nov. 4, 1881, and died at the home of her uncle, Henry Zimmerman at Sterling, Kansas, Oct. 17, 1913, at the age of 31 years, 11 months and 13 days.
April 3, 1904, she was united in marriage with Samuel Stuckey, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuckey. To this union were born two children, Kathleen Ilah and Verena Elizabeth. Kathleen died September 7, 1905, and Mr. Stuckey died in the Kingsland interurban wreck, September 21, 1910.
The remains of Mrs. Stuckey were brought here this morning, accompanied by her brother Ezra Snyder, Billie and Mary Stuckey, and two of her cousins, Wm. Zimmerman and William Flickinger.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the house at 1:30 o'clock and at the Defenseless Mennonite church, 4 miles west of Berne, of which she was a member, at 2: o'clock, conducted by Revs. Sol Klopfenstein and Elias Lantz.