Mexia Daily News - Dec. 21, 2005 edition

Longtime Educator Leo Stuver, 88, dies
 
Leo C. Stuver, 88, of Tehuacana, died Wednesday morning in Manor Nursing Home.

Funeral services for the longtime Texas Public Schools educator, are scheduled
for Thursday afternoon, Dec. 22, 2005, at 3 o’clock in First United Methodist
Church of Tehuacana. Officiating will be the Rev. Brad Brittian and Dr. Max
Burkhead. Burial will be in Tehuacana Cemetery.

Visitation with the family is scheduled for this evening from 5 until 7 o’clock
at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home.

Mr. Stuver is survived by his wife, Jeffalene Stuver of Tehuacana; a son and
daughter-in-law, Jeff and Pam Stuver of Teague; grandchildren - Kip Stuver and
wife Heather of Tehuacana, Kerry Stuver and wife Kristy of Wortham, and Jill
Stuver of Waco; great-grandchildren - Addison Stuver, Reagan Stuver and Kenlie
Stuver. Other survivors are several cousins, and a niece, Debbie Duffy of
McDonough, Georgia.

He was preceded in death by an infant son, Charles Kipling Stuver.

Leo was a 1936 graduate of Mexia High School, where he played football for the
Black Cats’ state playoff team in 1935. He was an outstanding lineman on that
team. He also played football for Westminster College in Tehuacana, and earned
a football scholarship to Sam Houston State University, graduating there in
1940, and claimed a Master’s degree in 1946 from Sam Houston State.

Always active in civic endeavors and clubs, Mr. Stuver was a member of the
Lions Club, Rotary International, the Masons of Texas, Karem Shrine, was former
Chairman of the board of directors of the Greater Lewisville Chamber of
Commerce, and also chaired the United Fund in that city. He also held
memberships in Texas State Teachers Association, the AASA and the Texas
Association of School Administrators. He was a member of First United Methodist
Church in Mexia.

His last place of service as a Texas school Educator came at Lewisville, where
he was Superintendent from 1969 until 1981. His schools’ career began as Dodge
ISD Superintendent in 1940-41 at the age of 22. He was Superintendent in 1942
at the Bobville ISD in Dobbin; was principal in 1943 in the Rusk ISD, in
1944-46 was with Superior Oil, held principal positions at Magnolia ISD from
1946 to 1950, and in Angleton from 1950-1953.

He was Teague ISD Superintendent from 1953 to 1966 and held the same position
from 1966 to 1969 with the Hillsboro ISD.

Numerous honors came Leo’s way, including an Honorary Life Membership with the
Texas Association of School Administrators; a 50-year Lifetime Member of the
Masons of Texas; was proclaimed Educator of the Month by Texas School Business
Magazine; was honored by the Lewisville School District’s naming a new
1,500-seat auditorium serving the district, the Leo C. Stuver Auditorium, in
1978.

Mr. Stuver was honored with a commendation by the State Board of Education, in
recognition of 41 years of distinguished service to Education, upon his
retirement in 1981.

Pallbearers are Tom Collins, Rody Durham, Max Goldsmith, Jimmy Lawrence, Bobby
Moore Fred Neale, Ken Trotter and Larry Watts.

Honorary pallbearers are Frank Amick, Clayton Downing, Bob Fain, Raymond
Fessler, Dick Lawrence, Virginia Marshall, Eugene Sims, Jim Sumerlin, Bob
Vordlander, Neal Wilson and Marshall Durham.

Memorials may be made to Mexia Providence Hospice, Mexia Academic Sweater Fund,
or Teague Ex-Student Association Memorial Scholarship Fund.