Nina M Stutzman

In Loving Memory Of
Nina M. Stutzman

A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 31, 2015 at East Fairview Mennonite Church, Milford, with Pastor Kyle Roth and Bill Saltzman officiating. Interment is in the church cemetery. Visitation is Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Lauber-Moore Funeral Home, Milford, with family receiving relatives and friends from 6-8 pm. Memorials have been established to the East Fairview Mennonite Church. Pallbearers will be Jim Zieglowsky, Reg, Eric and Christian Leichty, Jay Stutzman and Cecil Cole.

Nina Marie Stutzman was born October 14, 1915 on a farm near Milford, Nebraska to David and Emma (Jausi) Stutzman, the 2nd of 12 children and went home to be with her Lord on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, at Crestview Care Center in Milford at the age of 99 years. At a young age, she moved with her family to Cairo, Nebraska where she attended country school. As a teenager Nina accepted Jesus as her Lord and Saviour and was baptized into the family of God at the Wood River Mennonite Church. In 1941, Nina became a member of the East Fairview Mennonite Church where she was a faithful and loving member. Nina was a busy daughter, helping her parents and especially her mother with housework and the care of her younger siblings. Later she moved to Lincoln where she was a housekeeper. Nina was united in marriage to Ervin Stutzman on March 2, 1941 at Wood River Mennonite Church and to this union three children were born, Joan, Karen and Michael.

Together they made their home in the Milford area and wintered for many years in Sun City, AZ where they enjoyed fellowshipping with many of their friends and relatives. Nina enjoyed company, was an excellent cook and along with Ervin, they provided summer care for children from the Kansas City Children's home. They also spent time working at a children's home in Texas. She was a very hospitable person who loved to have guests in her home, especially her children and grandchildren and her brothers and sisters, as well as her extended family. Nina enjoyed volunteering her time and talents for events that helped others. In her spare time she enjoyed quilting, cross stitching and cooking. Nina especially enjoyed working out in her flower garden.

Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Joan and Donald Miller, Wayland, IA, Karen and Ronald Leichty, Milford, son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Mary Stutzman, Papillion, grandchildren and spouses, Denise (Jim) Zieglowsky, Eric (Robin) Leichty, Christine Leichty and Jim Phillips, Reginal (Alise) Leichty, Laura (Trent) Garris, Cecil (Lora) Cole, Jay Stutzman; 12 great-grandchildren and spouse, Jamie and Kevin Brame, Erica Zieglowsky, Christian, Aubrianna and Nathaniel Leichty, Elsa and Hadley Leichty, Taylor and Tanner Garris, Kelsei, Harlei and Tenlei Cole; sisters and brothers-in-law, Lucille Schieve, Minot, ND, Elsie Brown, Cairo, Anna Mae Troyer, Goshen, IN, Merna (Joe) Matejka, Ravenna, Dera Lee and Dennis Klanecky, St. Paul, brother and sister-in-law, Larry and Shirley Stutzman, Cairo, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Calvin and Raye Stutzman, Hastings, Julie Rodarte, Sun City, AZ, Berniece Hershberger, Seward, Harlan Hershberger, Milford, many nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.

Preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Ervin in 2006, sisters, Elizabeth Stutzman, Margaret Tellas, brothers, Art, Floyd and Dean Stutzman, great-granddaughter, Ashley Zieglowsky, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Paul Tellas, Alfred Troyer, Leroy Brown, and Gerhardt Shieve, Viola Schlegel, Dorothy Stutzman, Rose Stutzman, and Agnes Stutzman. Glen, Merton, Chester and Virgil Stutzman.