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"S" OBITUARIES
Van Buren County Arkansas Genealogy Trails STAMBAUGH, Sunshine Myrtle Matthews Hartford,
CT--MRS. SHERMAN ''SUNNY'' STAMBAUGH, 97, of Palmer Martin Road, died
Saturday, (June 16, 2007) in Chestelm Health Center here after a long
illness. She had lived in East Haddam since her move here in 1976 with
her husband following his retirement from public relations work in New
York. Since coming to East Haddam, Sunny had been active in many
village projects, including extensive wildflower plantings, along with
weeding and cleanup of such properties as Goodspeed Plaza, Rathbun
Library, the East Haddam Historical Society, Gillette Castle and local
elementary and high schools. For these and other activities as Civic
Affairs Chairman of the East Haddam Garden Club, she was lauded by
fellow club members and was honored by her town as one of East Haddam's
first Volunteers of the Month in August 1992. Sunny Stambaugh also had
considerable talents with handcraftwork, fashioning handsome wall
hangings, decorative small rugs and other needlework. She also
developed a successful small business, creating and selling decorative
pressed flower notecards for commercial and craft sales. On one
occasion, proceeds from sale of her cards were used to buy 1, 400
daffodils, which she and other volunteers planted throughout the
Gillette Castle grounds. Last fall, Sherman and Sunny Stambaugh
celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married on August
30th, 1946, in Toledo, OH where both were newspaper editorial workers.
A few years later, the couple moved east when Sherman transferred into
corporate public relations work in New York City, commuting here from
their first Connecticut home in Stamford. While living there, they
became parents of a daughter, Jane, born on May 16, 1952. (Now Jane
Millerick, she now lives in New York City.) Following his retirement
from corporate work, Sunny and Sherman moved to their present Palmer
Martin Road home.
Sunshine Myrtle Matthews Stambaugh was born October 3, 1909, in Van Buren County, AR. Orphaned at an early age, she and her four sibling brothers were placed in Masonic Home and School in Batesville, AR. Following graduation, she worked in the editorial department of the San Angelo (TX) Standard-Times, including coverage of livestock news throughout the state. Early in World War II, she moved into work for the Federal Defense Housing Authority in Corpus Christi and Fort Worth, as a house training advisor. Following this service, she moved in the mid-40s with friends to Toledo, where she worked for the Blade newspaper and met and married Sherman. In observance of Sunny's longtime wishes, there will be no public funeral services for her. Rather, she left word of her preference for her many friends to offer their private prayers as they may wish in her loving memory. --Hartford Courant, The (CT) - June 19, 2007. |