The second of three children born to Wellington and Lucy (Sherwood) Shoemaker. When her mother gave birth for the third time, Blanch explained she heard someone say 'Lucy has herself another dishwasher'. Blanch learned from those words that she had a sister!
A school teacher who became a devoted farmers wife and mother to two sons and two daughters. Sadly the youngest, Helen, was taken at a very young age. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd B. Burch; a brother, Lewis Shoemaker and his wife, Lillian; and her sister, Laura Shoemaker Clawson and her husband, Royal Clawson. Perhaps hardest of all was that she would attend funerals for all of her adult children, as well as two great-grandchildren.
A quiet, soft spoken lady with a quick smile. Blanch loved her family and took great pleasure in reunions celebrated always around her birthday. She loved to make quilts with ladies from church. She would carry the banner in parades and remained active until the age of 105. She lived many years with her daughter-in-law, Agnes Mae (Somers) Burch Strouse in Bluffton, Ohio.
She is fondly remembered and cherished by her family.
A school teacher who became a devoted farmers wife and mother to two sons and two daughters. Sadly the youngest, Helen, was taken at a very young age. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd B. Burch; a brother, Lewis Shoemaker and his wife, Lillian; and her sister, Laura Shoemaker Clawson and her husband, Royal Clawson. Perhaps hardest of all was that she would attend funerals for all of her adult children, as well as two great-grandchildren.
A quiet, soft spoken lady with a quick smile. Blanch loved her family and took great pleasure in reunions celebrated always around her birthday. She loved to make quilts with ladies from church. She would carry the banner in parades and remained active until the age of 105. She lived many years with her daughter-in-law, Agnes Mae (Somers) Burch Strouse in Bluffton, Ohio.
She is fondly remembered and cherished by her family.
The second of three children born to Wellington and Lucy (Sherwood) Shoemaker. When her mother gave birth for the third time, Blanch explained she heard someone say 'Lucy has herself another dishwasher'. Blanch learned from those words that she had a sister!
A school teacher who became a devoted farmers wife and mother to two sons and two daughters. Sadly the youngest, Helen, was taken at a very young age. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd B. Burch; a brother, Lewis Shoemaker and his wife, Lillian; and her sister, Laura Shoemaker Clawson and her husband, Royal Clawson. Perhaps hardest of all was that she would attend funerals for all of her adult children, as well as two great-grandchildren.
A quiet, soft spoken lady with a quick smile. Blanch loved her family and took great pleasure in reunions celebrated always around her birthday. She loved to make quilts with ladies from church. She would carry the banner in parades and remained active until the age of 105. She lived many years with her daughter-in-law, Agnes Mae (Somers) Burch Strouse in Bluffton, Ohio.
She is fondly remembered and cherished by her family.
A school teacher who became a devoted farmers wife and mother to two sons and two daughters. Sadly the youngest, Helen, was taken at a very young age. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd B. Burch; a brother, Lewis Shoemaker and his wife, Lillian; and her sister, Laura Shoemaker Clawson and her husband, Royal Clawson. Perhaps hardest of all was that she would attend funerals for all of her adult children, as well as two great-grandchildren.
A quiet, soft spoken lady with a quick smile. Blanch loved her family and took great pleasure in reunions celebrated always around her birthday. She loved to make quilts with ladies from church. She would carry the banner in parades and remained active until the age of 105. She lived many years with her daughter-in-law, Agnes Mae (Somers) Burch Strouse in Bluffton, Ohio.
She is fondly remembered and cherished by her family.
