Geneva Burt Spencer McQuigg
April 27, 2018 at 3:41 p.m.
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She was born in Kosciusko County in northern Indiana to William Kyle and Emma Bernice Rogers Gibson. She attended high school in Mentone, college at Manchester College in North Manchester, and graduate school at the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
Her career as an elementary school teacher unfolded primarily at the University School in Bloomington, where countless former students fondly recall her energy and enthusiasm. Their stories include remembrances of the above-and-beyond programs and plays that she orchestrated and the farm animals that she spirited into the classroom through the back door. Think of a diapered baby lamb. Shhh.
She celebrated three wonderful marriages to Doctors Lorin A. Burt, Beaufort “Bud” Spencer and Bruce McQuigg. Her devoted husbands each preceded her in death.
She is survived by children Marianne Burt, Bloomington, and Carl W. Burt, Warsaw; stepchildren Ellen (Jim) Strasma, Irvine, Calif.; Barbara Edmonds, Bloomington; Maribeth Spencer, Seattle, Wash.; Ted Spencer, Washington, D.C.; Sue (Les) Dixon, Bend, Ore.; and Paul McQuigg, Indianapolis; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Geneva’s graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, April 30, at Wooden Cemetery (Harrison Center, on the corner of CR 100S and CR 800W), Etna Green. She will then have a graveside service at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Stony Point Cemetery, Etna Green (north of Atwood on CR 650N near CR 700W). Pastor Sue Clark will officiate.
Arrangements are entrusted to King Memorial Home, Mentone.
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Memorials to the Carl W. and Lorin A. Burt Memorial Fund at Manchester University, 604 E. College Ave., North Manchester, IN 46962 (Geneva’s father-in-law, Carl W. Burt, was a well-respected, longtime football coach at Manchester).
Share a memory or send a condolence at www.hartzlerfuneralservices.com.
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She was born in Kosciusko County in northern Indiana to William Kyle and Emma Bernice Rogers Gibson. She attended high school in Mentone, college at Manchester College in North Manchester, and graduate school at the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
Her career as an elementary school teacher unfolded primarily at the University School in Bloomington, where countless former students fondly recall her energy and enthusiasm. Their stories include remembrances of the above-and-beyond programs and plays that she orchestrated and the farm animals that she spirited into the classroom through the back door. Think of a diapered baby lamb. Shhh.
She celebrated three wonderful marriages to Doctors Lorin A. Burt, Beaufort “Bud” Spencer and Bruce McQuigg. Her devoted husbands each preceded her in death.
She is survived by children Marianne Burt, Bloomington, and Carl W. Burt, Warsaw; stepchildren Ellen (Jim) Strasma, Irvine, Calif.; Barbara Edmonds, Bloomington; Maribeth Spencer, Seattle, Wash.; Ted Spencer, Washington, D.C.; Sue (Les) Dixon, Bend, Ore.; and Paul McQuigg, Indianapolis; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Geneva’s graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, April 30, at Wooden Cemetery (Harrison Center, on the corner of CR 100S and CR 800W), Etna Green. She will then have a graveside service at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Stony Point Cemetery, Etna Green (north of Atwood on CR 650N near CR 700W). Pastor Sue Clark will officiate.
Arrangements are entrusted to King Memorial Home, Mentone.
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Memorials to the Carl W. and Lorin A. Burt Memorial Fund at Manchester University, 604 E. College Ave., North Manchester, IN 46962 (Geneva’s father-in-law, Carl W. Burt, was a well-respected, longtime football coach at Manchester).
Share a memory or send a condolence at www.hartzlerfuneralservices.com.
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