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Susan (Bressere) Schumm

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Birth Date: May 18, 1864
Death Date: June 23, 1943
Age at Death: 79

Marriages

Casper Schumm

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Cedar
Cemetery Location: Gypsum, CO

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - July 2, 1943

Three Pioneer Women Die Past Week

MRS. SUSAN SCHUMM, MRS. JOHN T. SPROULE , AND MRS. LUCY WOOD PASS AWAY.

Word was received in Eagle Tuesday of the sudden death of Mrs. John T. Sproule at her home in Ridgewood, N. J., that day. Her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Huyler, and her husband will arrive in Eagle Sunday evening with the remains and services will be held from the Sproule home on Brush creew Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, according to present arrangements. The death of Mrs. Sproule came as a shock to her many friends, as well as her family. She had not been ill. Deatth was due to a cerebral hemorrhage.

The third pioneer lady of the county to pass away within a week of each other, died in Glenwood Springs Wednesday afternoon. M|s, Lucy Wood, for a great number of years a resident of Eagle died in the home of her son, Harry, in Glenwood. The elderly lady had not been ill, but died suddenly June 30. She would have been 93 years old on July 17. Present plans are that the services will be held in Eagle this afternoon, Friday, from the Methodist church.

SUSAN SCHUMM.

Susan Schumm, for many years a resident of and one of the pioneers of Eagle county, passed away suddenly at her home in Glenwood on June 23,. 1943. Susan Bressner was born May 18, 1864, at Verona, 111:,She lived there with her parents on a farm. Her father died when she was a child, I her mother following a few years later. She came to Colorado when she was 28 years old, keeping house for Casper Schumm and his two sons, Wm. C. and Walter. Later she married Mr. Schumm, and to this union were born four daughters. They lived on a ranch between Gypsum and Eagle for a time, moving to Gypsum where they lived for many years. They moved to Glenwood where she made her home until her death. Her husband preceded her in death on April 6, 1930; a daughter died in infancy, while another daughter, Etta L. Anderson, passed away April 1, 1937. She leaves to mourn her passing, two brothers, Frank and John Bressner of Illinois; two daughters, Jennie L. Anderson and Iva Dodo; one stepson, Wm. C. Schumm; four grandchildren. Evelyn and Bernard Anderson, and Billie Jean and Miles Anderson. Thus passes another one of the pioneers who assisted in building of the wilderness what is now Eagle county. Mrs. Schumm was a lover of home and nature, being greatly fond of flowers, arid had always lived a kindly, christain life.

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