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2007-06-19 issue:

Anne Stuckey, pastor and writer, dies at 54

by Mennonite Weekly Review, Gordon Houser

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ARCHBOLD, Ohio—Anne Stuckey, associate pastor at Zion Mennonite Church in Archbold and a columnist for The Mennonite, died May 31 in an automobile accident near Peru, Ill.



Stuckey, 54, of Somerset, Mich., died when she apparently lost control of her vehicle on a rain-slicked Interstate 80. Stuckey’s eastbound Volkswagen sedan crossed the highway median and collided with a westbound semi driven by a Minnesota man, who was not injured.
According to news reports, Stuckey had been in Iowa researching a new book about her battle with breast cancer, tentatively titled When the Pastor Gets Cancer. She had recently begun a sabbatical from her pastoral work to concentrate on the book.

“She had just begun the introduction to the book when the Lord chose to take her,” Stuckey’s husband, Terry, wrote in a remembrance of her.

Stuckey often counseled with church members who were grieving or facing major life challenges, according to the Toledo Blade newspaper.

“She was superb at doing that and incredibly appreciated by the congregation,” Zion pastor Ronald D. Guengerich told the Blade.

Stuckey was ordained in 1988 and had served several pastorates. She was associate pastor of First Mennonite Church in Iowa City from 1987 to 1989 and co-pastor at the church from 1989 to 1990. She was preaching minister at Salem Mennonite Church in Waldron, Mich., from 1991 to 2000, when she joined the staff of the Archbold congregation.

She had been a writer for Builder and was one of the writers for the Grace and Truth column in The Mennonite (her last column is on page 2). She also wrote Training Ministry Teams: A Manual for Deacons and Elders, which was translated into several languages.

Born Feb. 26, 1953, at Kitchener, Ont., the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Porter Woelfle, she married Terry Stuckey on June 22, 1974. She received a bachelor’s degree from Waterloo (Ont.) Lutheran University and a master’s degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and in 2003 graduated from the Theological Foundation at South Bend, Ind.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Leah of Elkhart, Ind.; a son, Matt of Elkhart, Ind.; her mother and stepfather, Elizabeth and A. Leonard Hagey of Cambridge, Ont.; a brother, John Woelfle of Cambridge, Ont.; and a stepbrother, John Arthur Hagey of Toronto.

A memorial service was held June 6 at Founders Hall at Sauder Village. Memorials may be made to Mennonite Central Committee.

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