Marcella "Marcy" Shuman, 89, died Dec. 26, 2007, at Golden Plains Health Care Center.
She was born Aug. 24, 1918, in St. John, the daughter of Henry and Lydia Schulz Sewing. She graduated in 1936, from Hutchinson High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a cook with U.S.D. 308, retiring in 1980, and a personal care nursing assistant with Ruby Rayl Nursing Home.
She belonged to the Community Church of the Brethren and the National Honor Society in high school.
On March 3, 1940, she married J. LeeRoy Shuman in Hutchinson. He died Jan. 2, 1982.
Survivors include: a son, James J., Moore, Okla.; two daughters, Wendy Hanlon, Valley Center, and Marlee Glaser, West Middlesex, Pa.; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and numerous nephews and nieces.
She was preceded in death by a son, Rocky A. Shuman, and a brother, Marvin H. "Bud" Sewing, who died 18 minutes following her death.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Elliott Chapel, Hutchinson, with the Rev. Irven Stern presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday at the mortuary, with the family present from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum.
Memorials may be sent to Hospice Care of Kansas, in care of the mortuary.
Personal condolences may be sent to www.elliottmortuary.com.