In Memory Of
Susan Marsh Totten
1936
2012
Susan Marsh Totten
May 19, 1936 — May 13, 2012
In Memory of
Susan “Sue” Marsh Totten, 75, of Hanover, Indiana, passed away Sunday, May 13, 2012, at Thorton Terrace Health Campus in Hanover.
Sue was born May 19, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of William Bradford Marsh and Miriam Hanna Marsh, both of whom preceded her in death. She graduated from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1958, and married her college sweetheart, Stanley Totten. She later received her Masters from Indiana University Southeast. She taught Physical Education in the Urbana, Illinois schools for a couple of years before starting to raise her family. In 1962, the family moved to Hanover which she called home for the next 50 years.
Sue taught kindergarten for 20 years at Southwestern Elementary School. She was an active member of the Hanover Presbyterian Church where she taught Sunday school and preschool, served as an elder, and served on several committees including Christian Education and Presbyterian Women. Her hobbies included flower and vegetable gardening, traveling, celebrating special events with family and friends, rooting for children and grandchildren in sporting events and school programs, and collecting butterfly figurines, bells and stamps. Sue was always ready to travel: western states with family for Stan’s geology class, her parent’s retirement residence in Maine, a year with family in Britain and Europe, vacations, picnics, and visits with family and friends.
Survivors include her husband Stanley Martin Totten, whom she married June 7, 1958; sons, William Bradford Totten, wife Nancy, Effingham, IL, Jeffrey Martin Totten, Lexington, IN, Dr. Mark Douglas Totten, wife Nancy, Hanover, and Gregory Guy Totten, wife Laura, Wooster, OH; daughter, Molly Sue Jones, husband John, Hanover; sister, Sally Edwards-Fitzgerald, Williamstown, KY; grandchildren, Madeline and Felicia Totten, Effingham, IL, Franklin, Douglas and Heather Totten, Hanover, Kelsey, Tyler and Coleman Jones, Hanover, and Emily and Zachary Totten, Wooster, OH.
Expressions of sympathy in memory of Sue may take the form of donations to the Hanover Presbyterian Church Preschool, Hanover College Science Museum, or the Alzheimer’s Association.
Memorial services will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at 11:00 A.M., at the Hanover Presbyterian Church. Sue bravely battled Alzheimer’s disease the last few years of her life, and her wishes were to donate herself to the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Grayson Funeral Home in Hanover is entrusted with the arrangements.
Susan “Sue” Marsh Totten, 75, of Hanover, Indiana, passed away Sunday, May 13, 2012, at Thorton Terrace Health Campus in Hanover.
Sue was born May 19, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of William Bradford Marsh and Miriam Hanna Marsh, both of whom preceded her in death. She graduated from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1958, and married her college sweetheart, Stanley Totten. She later received her Masters from Indiana University Southeast. She taught Physical Education in the Urbana, Illinois schools for a couple of years before starting to raise her family. In 1962, the family moved to Hanover which she called home for the next 50 years.
Sue taught kindergarten for 20 years at Southwestern Elementary School. She was an active member of the Hanover Presbyterian Church where she taught Sunday school and preschool, served as an elder, and served on several committees including Christian Education and Presbyterian Women. Her hobbies included flower and vegetable gardening, traveling, celebrating special events with family and friends, rooting for children and grandchildren in sporting events and school programs, and collecting butterfly figurines, bells and stamps. Sue was always ready to travel: western states with family for Stan’s geology class, her parent’s retirement residence in Maine, a year with family in Britain and Europe, vacations, picnics, and visits with family and friends.
Survivors include her husband Stanley Martin Totten, whom she married June 7, 1958; sons, William Bradford Totten, wife Nancy, Effingham, IL, Jeffrey Martin Totten, Lexington, IN, Dr. Mark Douglas Totten, wife Nancy, Hanover, and Gregory Guy Totten, wife Laura, Wooster, OH; daughter, Molly Sue Jones, husband John, Hanover; sister, Sally Edwards-Fitzgerald, Williamstown, KY; grandchildren, Madeline and Felicia Totten, Effingham, IL, Franklin, Douglas and Heather Totten, Hanover, Kelsey, Tyler and Coleman Jones, Hanover, and Emily and Zachary Totten, Wooster, OH.
Expressions of sympathy in memory of Sue may take the form of donations to the Hanover Presbyterian Church Preschool, Hanover College Science Museum, or the Alzheimer’s Association.
Memorial services will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at 11:00 A.M., at the Hanover Presbyterian Church. Sue bravely battled Alzheimer’s disease the last few years of her life, and her wishes were to donate herself to the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Grayson Funeral Home in Hanover is entrusted with the arrangements.
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