Mabel Ruth Ehresman
Mabel was born in Rudyard, Montana, and she lived there until she left to go to Westmar College, an Evangelical United Brethren College in Lemars, Iowa. She graduated and taught Latin one year before she married Edward T. Ehresman. They moved to Naperville, Illinois, where Ed went to the E.U.B. Seminary. They then moved to Eureka, South Dakota, where she was active in the church that Ed pastored. Their first two daughters were born there. Then they moved to "a sod house way out in the country" near the North and South Dakota borders. Their third daughter was born there. They moved next to Reeder, North Dakota, where Ed pastored three different churches. There three more children, the first a daughter, then a son and another daughter, were born.
They then answered the call to Red Bird Mission in Kentucky, where Ed pastored Beech Fork and Lower Beech Fork churches. Later they moved to Beverly, where Ed was the Mission Superintendent. Mabel took advantage of the opportunity to study library science and obtained her Master’s degree. She helped in the mission school library, especially after the school burned and everything had to be replaced. She set up the new library and went through all the books that had been donated to see how many were appropriate, and probably purchased needed new books.
When they retired, they moved to Fairview, North Carolina, where the family lived until Mabel came to Brooks-Howell Home in March of this year. Mabel liked to read, sew, and participate in church activities. I’m sure that rearing six children was mainly her job, too.