Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Attenberger, Elnora Esther (Minaker) April 24, 2018
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Thurs. April 26, 2018

ELNORA ESTHER ATTENBERGER, 91
Elnora Esther Attenberger, 91, of Waterville, Ohio, passed away April 24, 2018, at
Heartland of Waterville. She was born Dec.8, 1926, in Ionia to Edwin and Muyr (Beckhorn )
Minaker. Elnora graduated from Ionia High school in 1945. She began her working career at the
Grand Valley Meat Packing Plant in Ionia and later for the State of Michigan at the
former Ionia State Hospital and then the Department of Education in Lansing. After 25 years
she retired as an account executive.

While working at Grand Valley (Peschkes) she met and in 1947 married Herbert 
Attenberger from Muir where they made their home. Elnora was very active in the
village teaching Sunday school and working with the PTA and Band Boosters at Twin Rivers 
Elementary. Her special joy was being troop leader of a group of local girls from
beginning as Brownies through Girl Scouts at High school graduation. She and Herb also hosted
two German exchange students.

Upon retirement Elnora and Herb divided their time between Snows Lake  and
Harlingen, Texas. They eventually moved to South Texas full time where she was active in their
church and worked in the resort park office. They traveled widely including twice to
Philippines to visit their youngest daughter's family and to Europe to visit the exchange students.
After Herb's passing, Elnora came back north to be near her oldest daughter' family. She
resided at the Browning Maonic Senior Facility in Waterville, Ohio for the past six years.

Surviving Elnora are her daughters, Nancy Lee (Russell) Seba of Toledo and Dr. Judy
Kay Sands (Fermin) Caballero of Las Vegas; three grand-daughters, Adrienne (Daniel)
Amborski of Bowling Green Ohio, Shannon Well of Paducah, Ky., and Michelle (Michael) Souza of

Indianapolis and one grandson, Francis (Cheryl) Caballero of Las Vegas; Also, two
step-grandchildren, Carla Shaw and Jose Caballero of Phoenix. Elnora has four great-
grandchildren, Gwenth and Neil Amborski, McKenna Souza, and Charlotte Caballero. She
is also survived by her sister, Edna (Edward) Wray of Prudenville; and two
half-sisters, Lavonnie (Allen) Mourer of Lyons and Wilma Hartman of Muir.

Preceding her in death were her parents and three sisters and their husbands, Rowena
(Howard) Peckham, Cherribelle (John ) Vargo, and Dora (Robert) Barker.

Elnora has been cremated and per her wishes there will be no funeral service. Her
ashes will be interred with her husbands at Sunset memorial Cemetery in Ionia.

Arrangements are in care ofLake Funeral Home of Ionia and condolences may be made 
online at lakefuneralhomes.com

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