Her obiturary reads as follows:
Emma Shumaker
SOAP LAKE - Mrs. Emma Shumaker, 94 died at a Soap Lake Nursing home Feb. 8.
Mrs. Shumaker and her husband, the late Alfred Shumaker, came West from Missouri not long after they were married. they homesteaded near Withrow, leaving that area in 1918 to live in Terry and Mildred, Mont. After retirement, they returned to Washington, living in the Chelan and Okanogan area and later Spokane, where they resided when Mr. Shumaker died in 1962.
Mrs. Shumaker had been a patient at the Soap Lake hospital and nursing home for many years after breaking her hip.
Surviving are eight children, Mrs. Leatha Anderson, Almont, N.D., Mrs. Eva Diebel and Leo Shumaker, both Omak, Mrs. Louise Flack, Renton, Mrs. Claire Vedder and Mrs. Bernice Sweet, both Spokane, Mrs. Gussie Phipps, Moses Lake,and Merrille Shumaker, Soap Lake; a sister, Mrs. Ollie Vickery, Clarkston, 38 grandchildren and many great and great-great-children.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Glenn.
Funeral and burial services were held in Soap Lake.
Her obiturary reads as follows:
Emma Shumaker
SOAP LAKE - Mrs. Emma Shumaker, 94 died at a Soap Lake Nursing home Feb. 8.
Mrs. Shumaker and her husband, the late Alfred Shumaker, came West from Missouri not long after they were married. they homesteaded near Withrow, leaving that area in 1918 to live in Terry and Mildred, Mont. After retirement, they returned to Washington, living in the Chelan and Okanogan area and later Spokane, where they resided when Mr. Shumaker died in 1962.
Mrs. Shumaker had been a patient at the Soap Lake hospital and nursing home for many years after breaking her hip.
Surviving are eight children, Mrs. Leatha Anderson, Almont, N.D., Mrs. Eva Diebel and Leo Shumaker, both Omak, Mrs. Louise Flack, Renton, Mrs. Claire Vedder and Mrs. Bernice Sweet, both Spokane, Mrs. Gussie Phipps, Moses Lake,and Merrille Shumaker, Soap Lake; a sister, Mrs. Ollie Vickery, Clarkston, 38 grandchildren and many great and great-great-children.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Glenn.
Funeral and burial services were held in Soap Lake.
Family Members
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Ernest Glenn Shumaker
1898–1957
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Eva Shumaker Diebel
1901–1992
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Cecil Gustava "Gussie" Shumaker Phipps
1903–1980
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Leatha May Shumaker Anderson
1905–1987
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Lloyd Merrill Shumaker
1907–1989
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Leo Howard Shumaker
1909–2002
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Claire Emma Shumaker Vedder
1911–1980
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Louise Bertha Shumaker Flack
1915–2010
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Alice Bernice Shumaker Sweet
1917–1987
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Baby Shumaker
1920–1920
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