Berne Witness, Friday, April 10, 1914

Mrs. H. H. Stucky

The funeral of Mrs. H. H. Stucky, of Grabill, who died Tuesday morning at the Lutheran Hospital at Fort Wayne, of bowel trouble, was very largely attended at the Mennonite church here yesterday forenoon. The remains had been brought here Wednesday afternoon to the home of her mother, Mrs. Barbara Riesen
Mrs. Lea Riesen Stucky was born near Bluffton in Allen County, Ohio, on March 31, 1864. When she was only a half year old her parents, with the family, moved to Adams Co., Ind.
She was baptized on August 26, 1885, by Rev. S. F. Sprunger. On October 17, 1891, she was united in marriage with Henry Stucky. There were born to the family two children, Leo and Hulda, and one child Lillian, was adopted.
Mrs. Stucky ailed since before the holidays, but not until March 21 did she become bedfast. On the 2nd of April she was brought to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where, after an unsuccessful operation, she passed away on the 7th of this month at 10:20 a.m., after waiting for the Lord to come and take her.
She leaves to mourn her departure, her husband, her son Leo, her daughter Hulda, Lillian her adopted child, her mother, 5 sisters, 3 brothers, besides a number of other relatives.
Her brothers are Eli Riesen, at Berne, Gideon east of town and Sam at Chattanooga, Ohio; her sister, Mrs. C. W. Baumgartner, Mrs. Fred Braum and Miss Barbara Riesen here, Mrs. Eli Sprunger at Saginaw, Mich., and Mrs. Ves Grove at Portland.
Funeral services were held yesterday at Mrs. Barbara Riesen's house and at the Mennonite church, conducted by Rev. P. R. Schroeder in German and Rev. Jac Sumney of Grabill in English