Stanley Willis Stutsman

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Name:Stanley Willis Stutsman
Gender:Male
Race:White
Age:20
Event Type:Marriage Registration (Marriage)
Birth Date:10 Dec 1919
Birth Place:Toledo, Ohio
Marriage Licence Date:29 Sep 1939
Marriage Licence Place:Indiana, United States
Residence Place:Goshen, Indiana
Father:Rhinard R Stutsman
Mother:Clara Straw
Spouse:Audrey Marie Strycker
Officiator:Thomas M Long
Page:160
FHL Film Number:001845721

findagrave Stanley W "Stan" Stutsman, 86, a resident of Deming the past thirty years, died peacefully in his sleep on December 28, 2005, at his home, following an extended illness. He is survived by Audrey, his wife of 66 years, who is now living in the Denver, CO area with her only daughter. Immediate family survivors include his son, Gary (Judy), of Chandler, AZ; daughter, Beverly, of Littleton, CO; a granddaughter & two and grandsons.
Stan and his family spent many years in Harbor Springs, MI, where he owned an electrical contracting business.
Following Stan and Audrey's move to the southwest in 1976, Stan served as Chief Electrical Inspector for the State of New Mexico, based in Santa Fe. Later, he held the same position for the city of Farmington, NM. For two years, Stan was appointed Electrical Examining Officer for the Colorado Electrical Board for which he produced all that state's electrical exams.
Stan proudly served his country during World War II in the Pacific, with the United States Coast Guard, earning three campaign medals and a bronze star for action during the invasion of Okinawa. Stan also worked in the US Navy Shipyard in Bremerton, WA, aboard some of the warships that had been bombed in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
In earlier years, while living and working in Harbor Springs, MI, Stan was elected President of the Harbor Springs Schools PTA, was Vice President and President elect of the Harbor Springs Kiwanis Club, and served as a board member of the Harbor Springs Municipal Airport.
Stan's hobbies included extensive traveling with his wife, Audrey, as well as hunting, fishing, photography, and gardening. And, after retirement, he conducted many Electrical Code seminars in New Mexico.
This summer, the urn containing Stan's ashes will be buried in the small northern Michigan village of Stutsmanville on the site where his grandfather, Joseph S Stutsman, operated a busy lumber mill over 100 years ago. It was Stan's grandfather who founded the bustling little town in 1897.
Today, on the very site where Stan's grandfather's mill produced one million board feet of lumber per day, there now stands a church called the Stutsmanville Chapel, a modern facility which Stan and Audrey enjoyed attending during summer visits.
An additional note of interest is that Stan's grandfather was a minister, and performed the wedding rites for Audrey and Stan on October 1, 1939 in Goshen, IN.

Albuquerque Journal (NM) 22 January 2006

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*** his mother ...

Clara E Stutsman, 88, a resident of Deming, New Mexico the past 16 years, formerly of Harbor Springs, passed away after a lingering illness on May 9, 1987 at Mimbres Memorial Hospital.

Mrs Stutsman (Straw) was born May 31, 1898 at Bristol, Indiana and was a member of the First Christian Church, a past member of the Deming Gem and Mineral Club, a supporter of the Deming Senior Citizens Center, and a 30-year member of the I B Richardson Women's Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic at Harbor Springs.

She is survived by a son, Stanley W Stutsman (Audrey) of Deming; two sisters, Margaret L Jordon of Tekonsha, MI and Dorothy Shanteau of Genoa, Ohio; two grandchildren; Gary L Stutsman of Bakersfield, Ca and Beverly Van Dam of Evergreen, Colorado; 3 great-grandchildren.

Her husband, Richard R Stutsman, preceded her in death in 1975 as did another son, Rhindard M Stustman Jr in 1937.

A memorial service was held on Tuesday, May 12 in the Chapel of the First United Methodist Church in Deming with Pastor Steven Chappell conducting the service. Interment was in the family plot of West Goshen Cemetery in Goshen, Indiana.
Family links: Parents:
Rhinard R Stutsman (1890 - 1975)
Clara E Straw Stutsman (1897 - 1987)
Sibling:
Stanley Willis Stutsman (____ - 2005)
Rhinard M Stutsman (1916 - 1938)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Cremated, Other. Specifically: small northern Michigan village of Stutsmanville on the site where his grandfather, Joseph S Stutsman, oper