OBIT: Ida C. SHUMAKER - SHOEMAKER, 1946, formerly of Somerset County, PA   

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IDA C. SHUMAKER

  As briefly announced in last week's Republican, word was received on Tuesday, 
Feb. 19, by the General Mission Board of the Church of the Brethren, Elgin, 
Ill., that Miss Ida C. Shumaker, missionary teacher, died in the Cottrell 
Mission Hospital at Bulsar, Surat district, India, where she had been a patient 
for several weeks suffering from a heart condition.
  Miss Shumaker was commissioned a missionary by the church in 1910 and sent to 
the India field.  After nearly thirty years' service there she returned to the 
United States to work in the home mission field in the churches throughout the 
brotherhood.
  She always had a yearning to return to the foreign field, and notwithstanding 
her extreme age, then past 70, she left in July, 1944, to resume her work at 
Khergam, India, where with the help of her friends in the homeland and 
sacrifices upon the part of the native members of the Khergam church, a 
commodious house of worship was erected and dedicated as a memorial to her work 
in the Indian mission field.
  It was while she was again ministering at Khergam that she became ill and was 
transferred to the hospital at Bulsar, where she died.
  Miss Shumaker was a daughter of Alexander E. and Lydia Lint Shoemaker, 
(preferred spelling of the name by Miss Ida and some of the other members of the 
family being Shumaker).
  She received her education in the public schools of Meyersdale, and was one of 
the two who composed the first graduating class of the Meyersdale High School, 
more than fifty years ago.  She taught in the beginners' grade of the local 
schools for twenty-one successive terms prior to becoming a foreign missionary.
  She is survived by two brothers and a sister - W. A. Shoemaker, F. D. 
Shoemaker and Mrs. J. M. Gnagey, Meyersdale.
  No further word has been received up to this time as to her funeral and 
burial, but she was in all probability buried in the mission cemetery at 
Khergam, which seemed to be her desire during the later days of her life.

Meyersdale Republican, February 28, 1946