Effie Malissa Stinebaugh Douglas, 97, passed away at 12:45 a.m. Xug. 23, 2005, at the Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester.
She was bom on a small farm, a half mile west of the Lower Deer Creek Church of the Brethren in rural Camden, Indiana, on March 2, 1908. She was the daughter of the Rev. James Gilbert and Mary Elizabeth Reiff Stinebaugh. The youngest of six children, her siblings were Walter Curtis, Etta May, Virgil Jerome, Bertha Ellen, who died in infancy (six weeks), and Esther Mary.
She attended Camden School until the end of her freshman year, jpith the exception of third and fourth grades at Morning Star School where her brother, Virgil, was the teacher.
She resided in Rossville (1923-1929), where her father was pastor of the Rossville Church of the Brethren. She graduated from Rossville High School in 1926 and from Manchester College in 1929 with majors in English, Latin, and mathematics.
Her teaching career began at Camden High School, where she taught for three years and then married Lawrence Douglas and moved to the farm in rural Bringhurst, near the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren, CRs 350E and 200S.
Mrs. Douglas taught school in Carroll County for 37 years, Deer Creek High School from 1940-1944, Carrollton High School from 1944-1948, Flora High School from 1948-1961, and Carroll High School from 1961-1974. Her last six years at Carroll she served as Director of Guidance after receiving her Master’s Degree in 1961, with a supervisor’s license in guidance and a minor in English. During her high school teaching career, she directed class plays and usually served as junior or senior class sponsor.
Mrs. Douglas was always active in the organizations to which she belonged. As a member of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association she assisted in the organization of the Northwest Central Chapter in the Lafayette area and served as its first treasurer and later as its president. In 1966-1968, she served as secretary of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association when it met at French Lick.
In 1958, Mrs. Douglas and her Latin students joined the Indiana Junior Classical League and attended their first state convention at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. In 1962 they assumed the duties of scholarship banker and made the presentations at state meetings until 1993. A traveling trophy was named in her honor, the Effie Douglas Membership Award, and this rotates each year from school-to-school as recipients are named at state convention in April. She served a two-year turn in the 1970s on the Manchester Alumni Board and was the recipient of the Manchester College Service Award in 1984. Mrs. Douglas has been an active member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International since 1959, serving as recording secretary, vice president, and president of Theta Chapter. She worked at the state level of Alpha Epsilon State as chairman of publicity and publications from 1964-1966 and attended state, regional and international conventions for more than twenty years, providing The Hoosier Newsletter and Theta scrapbook with pictures, and the local and Lafayette papers with news articles.
Mrs. Douglas was also active in the Indiana School Women’s Club and supplied pictures for their historical file for a number of years. She was a life member of the National Education Association, National and Indiana Retired Teachers Associations, American Classical League, and Indiana State Teachers Association.
She was listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Notable Americans of the Bicentennial Era, and Personalities of the West and Midwest.
Since her marriage in 1932, Mrs. Douglas was an active member of the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren. She and her husband were elected deacons in 1947 and she continued to serve in that capacity. She directed the music for many years and served as teacher for two, three and four-year-olds for more than 61 years.
Her son and wife, Max and Joyce Douglas, reside in Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Her granddaughter, Lynn McCamant, and her great-grandson, Samuel, reside in Aloha, Oregon. Five nieces and nephews, 14 grandnieces and nephews, and several great-grandnieces and nephews also survive.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester, with visitation one hour prior to the service.
Local service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Living Faith Church of the Brethren in Flora. Dana Hood will officiate and burial will be in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Flora. Friends may call at Reinke Funeral Home, Flora, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday
She was bom on a small farm, a half mile west of the Lower Deer Creek Church of the Brethren in rural Camden, Indiana, on March 2, 1908. She was the daughter of the Rev. James Gilbert and Mary Elizabeth Reiff Stinebaugh. The youngest of six children, her siblings were Walter Curtis, Etta May, Virgil Jerome, Bertha Ellen, who died in infancy (six weeks), and Esther Mary.
She attended Camden School until the end of her freshman year, jpith the exception of third and fourth grades at Morning Star School where her brother, Virgil, was the teacher.
She resided in Rossville (1923-1929), where her father was pastor of the Rossville Church of the Brethren. She graduated from Rossville High School in 1926 and from Manchester College in 1929 with majors in English, Latin, and mathematics.
Her teaching career began at Camden High School, where she taught for three years and then married Lawrence Douglas and moved to the farm in rural Bringhurst, near the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren, CRs 350E and 200S.
Mrs. Douglas taught school in Carroll County for 37 years, Deer Creek High School from 1940-1944, Carrollton High School from 1944-1948, Flora High School from 1948-1961, and Carroll High School from 1961-1974. Her last six years at Carroll she served as Director of Guidance after receiving her Master’s Degree in 1961, with a supervisor’s license in guidance and a minor in English. During her high school teaching career, she directed class plays and usually served as junior or senior class sponsor.
Mrs. Douglas was always active in the organizations to which she belonged. As a member of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association she assisted in the organization of the Northwest Central Chapter in the Lafayette area and served as its first treasurer and later as its president. In 1966-1968, she served as secretary of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association when it met at French Lick.
In 1958, Mrs. Douglas and her Latin students joined the Indiana Junior Classical League and attended their first state convention at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. In 1962 they assumed the duties of scholarship banker and made the presentations at state meetings until 1993. A traveling trophy was named in her honor, the Effie Douglas Membership Award, and this rotates each year from school-to-school as recipients are named at state convention in April. She served a two-year turn in the 1970s on the Manchester Alumni Board and was the recipient of the Manchester College Service Award in 1984. Mrs. Douglas has been an active member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International since 1959, serving as recording secretary, vice president, and president of Theta Chapter. She worked at the state level of Alpha Epsilon State as chairman of publicity and publications from 1964-1966 and attended state, regional and international conventions for more than twenty years, providing The Hoosier Newsletter and Theta scrapbook with pictures, and the local and Lafayette papers with news articles.
Mrs. Douglas was also active in the Indiana School Women’s Club and supplied pictures for their historical file for a number of years. She was a life member of the National Education Association, National and Indiana Retired Teachers Associations, American Classical League, and Indiana State Teachers Association.
She was listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Notable Americans of the Bicentennial Era, and Personalities of the West and Midwest.
Since her marriage in 1932, Mrs. Douglas was an active member of the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren. She and her husband were elected deacons in 1947 and she continued to serve in that capacity. She directed the music for many years and served as teacher for two, three and four-year-olds for more than 61 years.
Her son and wife, Max and Joyce Douglas, reside in Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Her granddaughter, Lynn McCamant, and her great-grandson, Samuel, reside in Aloha, Oregon. Five nieces and nephews, 14 grandnieces and nephews, and several great-grandnieces and nephews also survive.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester, with visitation one hour prior to the service.
Local service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Living Faith Church of the Brethren in Flora. Dana Hood will officiate and burial will be in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Flora. Friends may call at Reinke Funeral Home, Flora, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday
Effie Malissa Stinebaugh Douglas, 97, passed away at 12:45 a.m. Xug. 23, 2005, at the Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester.
She was bom on a small farm, a half mile west of the Lower Deer Creek Church of the Brethren in rural Camden, Indiana, on March 2, 1908. She was the daughter of the Rev. James Gilbert and Mary Elizabeth Reiff Stinebaugh. The youngest of six children, her siblings were Walter Curtis, Etta May, Virgil Jerome, Bertha Ellen, who died in infancy (six weeks), and Esther Mary.
She attended Camden School until the end of her freshman year, jpith the exception of third and fourth grades at Morning Star School where her brother, Virgil, was the teacher.
She resided in Rossville (1923-1929), where her father was pastor of the Rossville Church of the Brethren. She graduated from Rossville High School in 1926 and from Manchester College in 1929 with majors in English, Latin, and mathematics.
Her teaching career began at Camden High School, where she taught for three years and then married Lawrence Douglas and moved to the farm in rural Bringhurst, near the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren, CRs 350E and 200S.
Mrs. Douglas taught school in Carroll County for 37 years, Deer Creek High School from 1940-1944, Carrollton High School from 1944-1948, Flora High School from 1948-1961, and Carroll High School from 1961-1974. Her last six years at Carroll she served as Director of Guidance after receiving her Master’s Degree in 1961, with a supervisor’s license in guidance and a minor in English. During her high school teaching career, she directed class plays and usually served as junior or senior class sponsor.
Mrs. Douglas was always active in the organizations to which she belonged. As a member of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association she assisted in the organization of the Northwest Central Chapter in the Lafayette area and served as its first treasurer and later as its president. In 1966-1968, she served as secretary of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association when it met at French Lick.
In 1958, Mrs. Douglas and her Latin students joined the Indiana Junior Classical League and attended their first state convention at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. In 1962 they assumed the duties of scholarship banker and made the presentations at state meetings until 1993. A traveling trophy was named in her honor, the Effie Douglas Membership Award, and this rotates each year from school-to-school as recipients are named at state convention in April. She served a two-year turn in the 1970s on the Manchester Alumni Board and was the recipient of the Manchester College Service Award in 1984. Mrs. Douglas has been an active member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International since 1959, serving as recording secretary, vice president, and president of Theta Chapter. She worked at the state level of Alpha Epsilon State as chairman of publicity and publications from 1964-1966 and attended state, regional and international conventions for more than twenty years, providing The Hoosier Newsletter and Theta scrapbook with pictures, and the local and Lafayette papers with news articles.
Mrs. Douglas was also active in the Indiana School Women’s Club and supplied pictures for their historical file for a number of years. She was a life member of the National Education Association, National and Indiana Retired Teachers Associations, American Classical League, and Indiana State Teachers Association.
She was listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Notable Americans of the Bicentennial Era, and Personalities of the West and Midwest.
Since her marriage in 1932, Mrs. Douglas was an active member of the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren. She and her husband were elected deacons in 1947 and she continued to serve in that capacity. She directed the music for many years and served as teacher for two, three and four-year-olds for more than 61 years.
Her son and wife, Max and Joyce Douglas, reside in Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Her granddaughter, Lynn McCamant, and her great-grandson, Samuel, reside in Aloha, Oregon. Five nieces and nephews, 14 grandnieces and nephews, and several great-grandnieces and nephews also survive.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester, with visitation one hour prior to the service.
Local service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Living Faith Church of the Brethren in Flora. Dana Hood will officiate and burial will be in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Flora. Friends may call at Reinke Funeral Home, Flora, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday
She was bom on a small farm, a half mile west of the Lower Deer Creek Church of the Brethren in rural Camden, Indiana, on March 2, 1908. She was the daughter of the Rev. James Gilbert and Mary Elizabeth Reiff Stinebaugh. The youngest of six children, her siblings were Walter Curtis, Etta May, Virgil Jerome, Bertha Ellen, who died in infancy (six weeks), and Esther Mary.
She attended Camden School until the end of her freshman year, jpith the exception of third and fourth grades at Morning Star School where her brother, Virgil, was the teacher.
She resided in Rossville (1923-1929), where her father was pastor of the Rossville Church of the Brethren. She graduated from Rossville High School in 1926 and from Manchester College in 1929 with majors in English, Latin, and mathematics.
Her teaching career began at Camden High School, where she taught for three years and then married Lawrence Douglas and moved to the farm in rural Bringhurst, near the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren, CRs 350E and 200S.
Mrs. Douglas taught school in Carroll County for 37 years, Deer Creek High School from 1940-1944, Carrollton High School from 1944-1948, Flora High School from 1948-1961, and Carroll High School from 1961-1974. Her last six years at Carroll she served as Director of Guidance after receiving her Master’s Degree in 1961, with a supervisor’s license in guidance and a minor in English. During her high school teaching career, she directed class plays and usually served as junior or senior class sponsor.
Mrs. Douglas was always active in the organizations to which she belonged. As a member of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association she assisted in the organization of the Northwest Central Chapter in the Lafayette area and served as its first treasurer and later as its president. In 1966-1968, she served as secretary of the Indiana Personnel and Guidance Association when it met at French Lick.
In 1958, Mrs. Douglas and her Latin students joined the Indiana Junior Classical League and attended their first state convention at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. In 1962 they assumed the duties of scholarship banker and made the presentations at state meetings until 1993. A traveling trophy was named in her honor, the Effie Douglas Membership Award, and this rotates each year from school-to-school as recipients are named at state convention in April. She served a two-year turn in the 1970s on the Manchester Alumni Board and was the recipient of the Manchester College Service Award in 1984. Mrs. Douglas has been an active member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International since 1959, serving as recording secretary, vice president, and president of Theta Chapter. She worked at the state level of Alpha Epsilon State as chairman of publicity and publications from 1964-1966 and attended state, regional and international conventions for more than twenty years, providing The Hoosier Newsletter and Theta scrapbook with pictures, and the local and Lafayette papers with news articles.
Mrs. Douglas was also active in the Indiana School Women’s Club and supplied pictures for their historical file for a number of years. She was a life member of the National Education Association, National and Indiana Retired Teachers Associations, American Classical League, and Indiana State Teachers Association.
She was listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Notable Americans of the Bicentennial Era, and Personalities of the West and Midwest.
Since her marriage in 1932, Mrs. Douglas was an active member of the Bachelor Run Church of the Brethren. She and her husband were elected deacons in 1947 and she continued to serve in that capacity. She directed the music for many years and served as teacher for two, three and four-year-olds for more than 61 years.
Her son and wife, Max and Joyce Douglas, reside in Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Her granddaughter, Lynn McCamant, and her great-grandson, Samuel, reside in Aloha, Oregon. Five nieces and nephews, 14 grandnieces and nephews, and several great-grandnieces and nephews also survive.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North Manchester, with visitation one hour prior to the service.
Local service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Living Faith Church of the Brethren in Flora. Dana Hood will officiate and burial will be in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Flora. Friends may call at Reinke Funeral Home, Flora, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday
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