Mae Sisler Stemple , 101, a retired piano teacher, died December 30, 1999 in Fort Worth, Texas. Alzina Mae Sisler was born January 10, 1898 near Lincoln, Nebraska, the tenth of eleven children of Charles and Lizzie Breed Sisler.
She moved with her family to Ohio, Illinois in 1904 to Crookston, Minnesota in 1907 and returned to Ohio, Illinois in 1915 where she graduated from high school. Her first job after high school was teaching in the one-room school she had attended near Ohio. She graduated in 1921 from DeKalb Normal School (now Northern Illinois University) with a teaching degree and in 1927 received a Bachelor's degree in Music from Northwestern University. She was the only one in her family to attend college. She taught piano and music at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Teacher's College from 1928 to 1929 where she met and married, Jay Stemple. At that time married women were not allowed to teach at the college, so she began her career as a private piano teacher. In 1944 the family moved to Salem, Virginia where she lived and taught piano to many young students until moving to Fort Worth, Texas in 1991. After age 88, she continued to play piano recitals at Hollins College, Roanoke College, and in Fort Worth until 1995.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jay Stemple.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Norman and Irene Stemple, Fort Worth, Texas; a son, Eugene Stemple, Willcox, Arizona; five grandchildren, Trisha Dianne, Ed Stemple, Joanne Cuadra, Donny Stemple and Linda Carroll; and seven great-grandchildren, Gabriel and Benjamin Cuadra, Sarah and Christine Stemple, and Ashlyn, Bryson and Dawson Carroll.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Salem with Rev. Jeff Dorsey officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. John M. Oakey & Son, Salem in charge of arrangements.
Roanoke Times, VA, Jan. 5, 2000
NOTE; Aug. 2023 Cemetery office has no record of this person
She moved with her family to Ohio, Illinois in 1904 to Crookston, Minnesota in 1907 and returned to Ohio, Illinois in 1915 where she graduated from high school. Her first job after high school was teaching in the one-room school she had attended near Ohio. She graduated in 1921 from DeKalb Normal School (now Northern Illinois University) with a teaching degree and in 1927 received a Bachelor's degree in Music from Northwestern University. She was the only one in her family to attend college. She taught piano and music at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Teacher's College from 1928 to 1929 where she met and married, Jay Stemple. At that time married women were not allowed to teach at the college, so she began her career as a private piano teacher. In 1944 the family moved to Salem, Virginia where she lived and taught piano to many young students until moving to Fort Worth, Texas in 1991. After age 88, she continued to play piano recitals at Hollins College, Roanoke College, and in Fort Worth until 1995.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jay Stemple.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Norman and Irene Stemple, Fort Worth, Texas; a son, Eugene Stemple, Willcox, Arizona; five grandchildren, Trisha Dianne, Ed Stemple, Joanne Cuadra, Donny Stemple and Linda Carroll; and seven great-grandchildren, Gabriel and Benjamin Cuadra, Sarah and Christine Stemple, and Ashlyn, Bryson and Dawson Carroll.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Salem with Rev. Jeff Dorsey officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. John M. Oakey & Son, Salem in charge of arrangements.
Roanoke Times, VA, Jan. 5, 2000
NOTE; Aug. 2023 Cemetery office has no record of this person
Mae Sisler Stemple , 101, a retired piano teacher, died December 30, 1999 in Fort Worth, Texas. Alzina Mae Sisler was born January 10, 1898 near Lincoln, Nebraska, the tenth of eleven children of Charles and Lizzie Breed Sisler.
She moved with her family to Ohio, Illinois in 1904 to Crookston, Minnesota in 1907 and returned to Ohio, Illinois in 1915 where she graduated from high school. Her first job after high school was teaching in the one-room school she had attended near Ohio. She graduated in 1921 from DeKalb Normal School (now Northern Illinois University) with a teaching degree and in 1927 received a Bachelor's degree in Music from Northwestern University. She was the only one in her family to attend college. She taught piano and music at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Teacher's College from 1928 to 1929 where she met and married, Jay Stemple. At that time married women were not allowed to teach at the college, so she began her career as a private piano teacher. In 1944 the family moved to Salem, Virginia where she lived and taught piano to many young students until moving to Fort Worth, Texas in 1991. After age 88, she continued to play piano recitals at Hollins College, Roanoke College, and in Fort Worth until 1995.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jay Stemple.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Norman and Irene Stemple, Fort Worth, Texas; a son, Eugene Stemple, Willcox, Arizona; five grandchildren, Trisha Dianne, Ed Stemple, Joanne Cuadra, Donny Stemple and Linda Carroll; and seven great-grandchildren, Gabriel and Benjamin Cuadra, Sarah and Christine Stemple, and Ashlyn, Bryson and Dawson Carroll.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Salem with Rev. Jeff Dorsey officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. John M. Oakey & Son, Salem in charge of arrangements.
Roanoke Times, VA, Jan. 5, 2000
NOTE; Aug. 2023 Cemetery office has no record of this person
She moved with her family to Ohio, Illinois in 1904 to Crookston, Minnesota in 1907 and returned to Ohio, Illinois in 1915 where she graduated from high school. Her first job after high school was teaching in the one-room school she had attended near Ohio. She graduated in 1921 from DeKalb Normal School (now Northern Illinois University) with a teaching degree and in 1927 received a Bachelor's degree in Music from Northwestern University. She was the only one in her family to attend college. She taught piano and music at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Teacher's College from 1928 to 1929 where she met and married, Jay Stemple. At that time married women were not allowed to teach at the college, so she began her career as a private piano teacher. In 1944 the family moved to Salem, Virginia where she lived and taught piano to many young students until moving to Fort Worth, Texas in 1991. After age 88, she continued to play piano recitals at Hollins College, Roanoke College, and in Fort Worth until 1995.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jay Stemple.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Norman and Irene Stemple, Fort Worth, Texas; a son, Eugene Stemple, Willcox, Arizona; five grandchildren, Trisha Dianne, Ed Stemple, Joanne Cuadra, Donny Stemple and Linda Carroll; and seven great-grandchildren, Gabriel and Benjamin Cuadra, Sarah and Christine Stemple, and Ashlyn, Bryson and Dawson Carroll.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Salem with Rev. Jeff Dorsey officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. John M. Oakey & Son, Salem in charge of arrangements.
Roanoke Times, VA, Jan. 5, 2000
NOTE; Aug. 2023 Cemetery office has no record of this person
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