Verna Verduin Shurtleff

SHURTLEFF, MRS. VERNA VERDUIN Muskegon Verna Verduin Shurtleff, age 100, died Saturday, August 27, 2005. She was born in Lake Mills, WI on September 18, 1904 to William and Charlotte Kleman Schultz. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. She met her husband, James William Verduin, in Dowagiac, MI, where both were teaching. They moved to Muskegon in 1938, where he taught at Muskegon Heights High School, and later became assistant superintendent; she subsequently taught in the Heights system as well. For Mr. Verduin's health they moved to Tucson, AZ in 1959. He died there December 1, 1966. In 1974 she married Col. William Hall Shurtleff II U.S.Army ret. Colonel Shurtleff died in January, 1975. Mrs. Shurtleff was a member of First Congregational Church of Muskegon for 60 years, from 1938 to the present, except for seven years with First Congregational Church of Tucson. In earlier years she was active in the Women's Fellowship of both churches. She served on the founding board of Jefferson Towers, and acted as the Towers' first volunteer registrar. She was also a member of Chapter Y, PEO Sisterhood. SURVIVORS Mrs. Shurtleff is survived by her children, Marilyn V. and Roger A. Andersen; her grandchildren, Marcia Andersen Mahoney and J. Stephen Poor, Elizabeth A. Andersen and Stephen E. Pomper, and James Arnold and Lisa K. Andersen. She also leaves her great-grandchildren, Daniel Andersen Mahoney and Patrick James Mahoney, Anna Verduin Pomper, Nicholas Northrup Pomper, and Charles Roger William Pomper. She also leaves her Shurtleff family: Elizabeth Shurtleff, widow of William Hall Shurtleff III, of California and J. Lee and Linda Shurtleff, of Colorado; grandchildren William Hall Shurtleff IV, Ted and Rick Shurtleff, all of Califiornia, and Terry Long of Oregon. SERVICE Memorial Service will be Thursday, September 1, 2005, 3:00 PM at First Congregational Church with Rev. Tim VanderHaar officiating. Interment at Mona View Cemetery. VISITATION The family will greet friends Wednesday, 7-9 PM at Clock Funeral Home. MEMORIAL: Hackley Public Library children's department; Walker Library children's department; and the library of E. Grace Loftis Elementary School in Muskegon Heights, where Mrs. Shurtleff taught. Clock - Muskegon