Ruth Eleanor Schenck

1917 - 2008  (90 years)

• Name	Ruth Eleanor Schenck  [1]
  Born	16 Jun 1917	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	6 Feb 2008	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle Cass City, Michigan, Friday, March 16, 1934 Vol. 23, Number 49 Miss Ruth Schenck who will be valedictorian of the Class of 1934, Cass City High School, has the unusual distinction of completing her courses of study with all "A" marks during her four years of high school here. Cass City Chronicle Friday, July 12, 1940 Page Five Miss Ruth Schenck entertained five friends at a picnic supper at Caseville on Friday evening in honor of her guest, Miss Marguerite Hertel, of East Lansing. Miss Hertel and Miss Schenck are roommates while attending summer school at Central State Teachers' College at Mt. Pleasant, and they spent the Fourth and the following weekend with Miss Schenck's mother, Mrs. William McKenzie. In the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, Volume 9, September 2, 1946, it was reported that Ruth Schenck taught a term in the Newington Home for Crippled Children in Conneticut, and was going to teach kindergarten in Cass City in the current year. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008) Ruth Esau was one of the cousins of BonnieMargaret Jacobs who searched their Bibles and records and picture collections to provide information for her 1981 manuscipt about the history of the Benkelman family. Obituary: Ruth Eleanor Schenck Esau, 90, of Cass City, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 at Hills and Dales General Hospital, Cass City. Esau was born June 16, 1917 in Cass City on the family farm, the daughter of the late Clayton Schenck and Alma Striffler Schenck McKenzie. She married John "Jack" Esau June 10, 1948 in Cass City. Esau was a 1934 graduate of Cass City High School. She attended Cass City Junior College in 1935 and then graduated in 1940 as a teacher from Central Michigan University. Esau taught art and kindergarten in the Cass City Public Schools for many years. She worked at Sigma Gamma Hospital in Mt. Clemens and Newington Children's Hospital in CT. Esau is survived by her husband, Jack; children: Eric Esau of Newbury, VT, Mary Beth (Howard) Bialick of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Anne (Steve) Ballard of Cass City; and 3 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brother, Donald Schenck. Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held June 15 (time and location to be announced.) Burial will be in the Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City. Memorials may be made to Rawson Memorial Library. Arrangements were made by Thabet Funeral Home, Cass City. (Cass City Chronicle, Feb. 13, 2008, p. 10.)
  Person ID	I15697	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Clayton Arthur Schenck,   b. 30 May 1891, Tuscola County, Michigan ,   d. 17 Sep 1919, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 28 years)
  Mother	Alma Louise Striffler,   b. 11 Mar 1893, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan ,   d. 24 Jan 1966, Elkton, Huron County, Michigan  (Age 72 years)
  Married	29 Apr 1913	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Family ID	F3074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John "Jack" Alexander Esau,   b. 30 Jan 1918, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan ,   d. 30 Oct 2011, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 93 years)
  Married	10 Jun 1948	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2010
  Family ID	F5927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 16 Jun 1917 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Married - 10 Jun 1948 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Died - 6 Feb 2008 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Buried - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		Live Wire Bible Class of the Evangelical United Brethern Church Sunday School, Cass City Michigan, ca 1917 FRONT ROW, l to r, Grant McConnell, class leader; UNKNOWN Clergyman, UNKNOWN class member, William Schwegler, Sam Helwig, George Burg SECOND ROW, l to r, Hattie Helwig McConnell, Janet "Jennie" Gardner Buehrly, Minerva Helwig Sherman, Mary Buehrly Striffler, Mary Mark Buehrly THIRD ROW; l to r, Alma Striffler Schenck holding her baby Ruth, Lena Helwig Jaus, Lillian Striffler Ricker, Minnie Jesse Benkelman, Mary Schwegler Jaus, Jacob Hiller. Note: Alma Striffler Schenck's three year old son, Donald, was said to be asleep in the Model T Ford just to the left of the group at the time this photo was taken FOURTH ROW: l to r, Elsie Buehrly, Mary Striffler Helwig, Cora Helwig Klinkman, Laura McConnell Hiller, Alice Ross Schwegler, Mary McLellan Joos, Ed Helwig FIFTH ROW, l to r, Art Ricker, Erwin Kercher, Ed Buehrly, Harvey Klinkman, UNKNOWN Class Member, Fred Buehrly, Fred Joos TOP ROW, l to r, Sol Striffler, Clayton Schenck, Fred Jaus, William Ackerman, Sam Jaus It appears that at least 33 of the 36 adults in this Sunday School class were directly related, through either blood or marriage, to the Striffler, Benkelman and Helwig families who emigrated together from Erie County, New York to Tuscola County, Michigan beginning in the 1860's. PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN INDIVIDUALS.
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Schenck, Ruth ca 1930 with family and friends l to r, Mrs. P. S. Rice, Fern Schwegler, Ruth Schenck, and Marjory Schwegler

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 11, September 6, 1948. (Reliability: 3).