Clayton Arthur Schenck

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Cass City Chronicle
Friday, September 19, 1919
Vol. 15, No. 18
Page One

Appendicitis Causes Death of Clayton A. Schenck

Was Ill But Two Weeks; Funeral Friday Afternoon at Evangelical Church

Clayton A. Schenck passed away Wednesday morning following an operation for appendicitis which he underwent at Pleasant Home hospital Monday evening. He had been ill about two weeks.

Clayton Arthur Schenck was born on the Schenck farm two miles northwest of Cass City on May 30, 1891. He attended the public school here until he completed the tenth grade and then devoted his attention to farming, assisting his father, Travis Schenck, on the latter's farm.

On April 29, 1913, he was united in marriage with Miss Alma Striffler and to this union two children were born.

Mr. Schenck has been a member of the Evangelical church since 1914 and was very active and faithful in the various church organizations and services. He was also an efficient member of the Cass City Band. He was a young man of strong character and clean habits. It is hard to give up one whose influence among men has been for good and who by precept and example was so well calculated to spread abroad the influence of godly living. The community extends sincere sympathy to the bereaved family.

Besides his wife and two small children, Donald, age 5 years, and Ruth, 2 yrs, he leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Travis Schenck, two brothers, Stanley Schenck of Chisholm, Minn., and Verne Schenck of Detroit and one sister, Mrs. John McGrath, jr., of Cass City.

Funeral services will be held at the Evangelical church this (Friday) afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. A.H. Butzbach officiating.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Winter 2007)

Clayton married Alma Louise Striffler on 29 Apr 1913 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. Alma (daughter of Solomon Striffler and Eva Catharina "Katie" Koepf) was born on 11 Mar 1893 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 24 Jan 1966 in Elkton, Huron County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Donald married Genevieve M. Ruede on 23 Apr 1938 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. Genevieve was born on 21 Jan 1916 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan; died on 16 May 2006 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.)

Ruth married John "Jack" Alexander Esau on 10 Jun 1948 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. John was born on 30 Jan 1918 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; died on 30 Oct 2011 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]