BioA: Winnebago School (75^th Anniversary - 1954)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Stucki 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) September 30, 1954 
 

Winnebago School (75^th Anniversary - 26 September 1954) 
 

The observance of the 75^th anniversary of the Winnebago School last Sunday lacked the Rev. Ben Stucki, who has been carrying the load as superintendent many years.  While his friend an associates were celebrating achievement, Mr. Ben, as many call him, was having a tussle with his nerves at Wisconsin General Hospital, Madison.  He is suffering from nervous exhaustion, and will require a period of unknown duration for rest and recuperation.  
 

In his absence the members of his family altered their plans and turned in to back up the head of the family and to carry on in the Stucki tradition.  The importance of this was borne in upon Mrs. Stucki at 2:30 Tuesday morning.  She couldn’t sleep, but she was thinking about the family and about the way the children had turned in when the pinches have come.  So she arose, and in the night wrote this intimate family story of what the family has done to back its head and to carry on in the missionary tradition of the (and that story is missing. Dmk)