Ethel May Enke Stirewalt (1895-1973)

Ethel May Enke Stirewalt

Birth

May 1895

Dade County, Missouri, USA

Death

Dec 1973 (aged 78)

Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA

Burial

Park Cemetery

Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA Add to Map

Plot

Prayer Garden Bl 51 Lot 215 Sp 3

Memorial ID

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Ethel Enke Kale Stirewalt

Mary Ida (Murdock) Enke is Ethel's mother.
Arzina Rosetta Enke (1868 - 1928) was a step-mother to Ethel.

CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
December 21, 1973

MRS. ETHEL STIREWALT

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Mrs. Ethel May Stirewalt, 79, 829 West Vine street died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mt. Vernon State Chest Hospital where she had been a patient since June 12. She had been ill five years.
Mrs. Stirewalt was born May 12, 1894 in Dade county, and had lived in Carthage seven years, coming here from La Russell. She married John Stirewalt in 1912. He died February 7, 1967. She was a member of the Bykota Baptist Church.
Survivors include six sons, Sergil L. Stirewalt and Robert Stirewalt, both of Mount Vernon, John D. Stirewalt, 431 Fall St., Harold P. Stirewalt, Westminster, California; Lloyd Stirewalt, Carthage route 2, and Clyde Stirewalt, Carthage route 4: six daughters, Mrs. Rose West, rural La Russell, Mrs. Louise Spellman, Mount Vernon, Mrs. Ninna Comstock of the home. Mrs. Jewel Roughton and Mrs. Betty Carnes, both of Carthage route 4 and Mrs. Muriel Pennington, Sarcoxie; two brothers, Gene Enke, rural La Russell and John Enke, Bellflower, CA.; two sisters, Mrs. Nora Foust, Stotts City and Mrs. Joanne O'Dear, Detroit, Michigan; 33 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements under the direction of Ulmer Funeral Home.

Census 1900
age 5, residing with parents, John Enke, 28 and Arzina Enke, 29 in Green Twp., Lawrence county, Missouri.
Siblings reported were:
*Harris O Enke 2
*Elmer P Enke 1
*Stella D Enke 2

Marriage to John David Stirewalt
1914 15 Jan — Age: 18
MT Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri

Known children:
*Seigel Lamound
1914 – 1992
*Sim Robert
1917 – 1978
*Louise Mildred
1919 – 2004
*Ninna May "Vinna"
1921 – 1999
*John D. Jr
1923 – 1999
*Jewel A
1925 – 2006
*Betty Jean
1933 – 2008
*Lloyd T.
1934 – 1996
*Ethel Lee
1935 – 1936