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Lena Yutzy. Courtesy of Lena Yutzy family.<\/p><\/div>\n
Lena Yutzy Showalter<\/strong>, from Plain City, Ohio,\u00a0married Norman Yutzy in 1955. The two served Trissels Mennonite Church\u00a0in Broadway, Virginia, where Norman was pastor and Lena shared\u00a0hospitality with hundreds of people in their home and in various church\u00a0roles.<\/p>\n The family operated a dairy farm and raised turkeys. Their\u00a0children \u2013 Lenora, David, and Charlene \u2013 all attended EMS. Norman Yutzy\u00a0died in 2000 and Lena remarried Omar Showalter in 2006. Lena gave\u00a0generously to family, church, and school.<\/p>\n Helen Trumbo at the Mennonite Publishing House. Photo courtesy of Helen Shank family.<\/p><\/div>\n Helen Trumbo \u201942 Shank<\/strong> was an editor, writer, and teacher. In\u00a0the early 1940s, she taught Summer Bible School in remote areas with\u00a0Virginia Mennonite Conference. In 1946, she co-authored a paper on the\u00a0mission stations of the Mennonite Church in the highlands of western\u00a0Virginia and the mountains of West Virginia contributing to historians\u2019\u00a0understanding of this movement.<\/p>\n From 1945 to 1966, Helen worked at\u00a0Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa., editing Beams of Light\u00a0(later called Story Friends), and Words of Cheer, a youth publication.<\/p>\n In 1968, at age 43, Helen married Stuart Shank (1920-2018). She taught\u00a0second grade at Plains Elementary School for the next nine years and\u00a0supported Stuart\u2019s work on their Broadway farm.<\/p>\n In the 1980s, Helen\u00a0wrote the stories of Stuart and others who served with Civilian Public\u00a0(alternative) Service during WWII. In later years, she welcomed\u00a0interviewers to her room at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community to\u00a0help with photos or inquiries about twentieth-century Mennonite history.<\/p>\n Gladys Driver, Yvonne Martin, Jan Kauffman, Brownie Driver. Photo courtesy of Dorothy Kreider.<\/p><\/div>\n Gladys Driver \u201938<\/strong> and Brownie Driver \u201946<\/strong>, were sisters who lived their\u00a0lives within a five-mile radius of Harrisonburg. Through creating works\u00a0of art with cloth scraps and teaching others the same skills, their\u00a0impact was global.<\/p>\n Among the organizations that benefited from their\u00a0craft were their home congregation of Weavers Mennonite Church, and\u00a0Mennonite Central Committee through the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale,\u00a0where one quilt sold for $4,100.<\/p>\n In 2007, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South\u00a0African Nobel Peace Laureate, received an award at James Madison\u00a0University, and Eastern Mennonite University President Loren\u00a0Swartzendruber presented him with a 21\u201d by 31\u201d quilted wall hanging by\u00a0the sisters.<\/p>\n Gladys and Brownie both passed away in 2017. Their cloth\u00a0creations represent the art, beauty, and community life of Mennonites in\u00a0the Shenandoah Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four Mennonite women who loved children and education lived frugally and\u00a0gave generously. By naming EMS in their wills, the women contributed a\u00a0combined total of $890,354, which ended up funding a quarter of the cost\u00a0of the Eastern Mennonite Elementary School renovation project, completed\u00a0in 2019. Lena Yutzy Showalter, from Plain City, Ohio,\u00a0married Norman Yutzy in 1955. 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