Romayne Estelle StenstromRomayne Estelle Stenstrom, of Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, passed away at 5:01 a.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2022, at Grace Village Health Care at the age of 89.
She was born on Nov. 30, 1932, in San Francisco, Calif., to Doris Helene Willey Amos and Chauncey Mitchell Amos. On Oct. 27, 1956, she married Kenneth Lyle Stenstrom and they spent the next 65 years of their marriage traveling the world as missionaries and sharing their lives in everything they did before he passed away on Jan. 24, 2022. One of their greatest accomplishments were being blessed with children and becoming grandparents.
Romayne graduated from San Francisco Baptist College and received her Bachelor of Science in Christian Education. She and her husband worked in missions in Taiwan for four years, then for a short term in Romania, Malawi and Mexico. She also was a mission house parent at Riverwood Ranch for eight years.
Ken and Romayne lived in North Dakota for 11 years, then Palestine, Ind., for a number of years and then finally settled in Winona Lake. She loved serving her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and enjoyed the fellowship of her church family as a member of the former Winona Lake Free Methodist Church now called Winona Lake Community Church. Romayne was a loving and patient wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and will be dearly missed.
She leaves behind two daughters: Karen Engstrom, Vancouver, Wash.; Ruth (Larry) Wilson, Bedford, Va.; two sons: Raymond Stenstrom, Folly Beach, S.C.; William (Judith) Stenstrom; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters-in-law: Elizabeth Christensen, Eugene, Ore.; Harriet Tesch, Bemidji, Minn.; and three brothers-in-law: Arvid Stenstrom, Boiling Springs, S.C.; Stanley Stenstrom, Paso Robles, Calif.; LeRoy Stenstrom, Bemidji, Minn. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband.
Romayne’s life will be celebrated with a memorial service at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 28 at Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, 225 Argonne Road, Warsaw, and officiated by Pastor Jordan Ickes. She will be buried at a later date at Etna Green Cemetery, Etna Green.
Online condolences may be sent through the funeral home’s website at www.redpathfruthfuneralhome.com.
