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Ruth Eleanor Schenck

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  • Name Ruth Eleanor Schenck  [1
    Birth 16 Jun 1917  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 6 Feb 2008  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Sep 1919, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years) 
    Mother Alma Louise Striffler,   b. 11 Mar 1893, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1966, Elkton, Huron County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 29 Apr 1913  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3074  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John "Jack" Alexander Esau,   b. 30 Jan 1918, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Oct 2011, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years) 
    Marriage 10 Jun 1948  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
     3. Living
    Family ID F5927  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Mar 2010 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Jun 1917 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 10 Jun 1948 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Feb 2008 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Live Wire Bible Class of the Evangelical United Brethern Church Sunday School, Cass City Michigan, ca 1917
    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
    Schenck, Ruth ca 1930 with family and friends
    l to r, Mrs. P. S. Rice, Fern Schwegler, Ruth Schenck, and Marjory Schwegler

  • Sources 
    1. [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982.

    2. [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).