Della Mae Stucky was born March 21, 1923, in Pretty Prairie, Kansas. She was the third daughter (one of twins) born to Henry Samuel and Lena Bertha Schwartz Stucky. She went to be with the Lord on the 31st day of July, 2023, at the age of 100 years, 4 months, and 10 days.
She was baptized on May 29, 1939 upon confession of her faith in Jesus Christ. After completing her elementary and secondary schooling, she attended Wichita Business College, where she graduated with honors and a lifetime scholarship.
She married George Christian Musselman on July 12, 1942. They established their first home in Wichita, Kansas. There, she was employed by the government, and subsequently, held a position as a legal secretary. She and George moved to Denver, Colorado in September, 1946. She resided there until she moved to Prairie Sunset Home in Pretty Prairie, Kansas in November, 2022. George and Della had four children, Michael, Donna, Timothy, and James. Timothy, and her husband, George, preceded her in death.
Della's hands and mind were seldom idle. While she raised her family, she continued to pursue her business career, maintaining a full secretarial service office in her home. When her children were of responsible age and attending private school, she closed her home office and returned to the outside business world, accepting an administrative and executive secretarial position with a civil engineering firm. She continued in that field until her first retirement in 1982.
She spent much of the next decade traveling around the United States with her husband, George. But she came out of retirement in 1992 to accept a volunteer position in the Missions Office of Faith Presbyterian Church, where she continued until 1997, when she left to care for George until his death in 1999.
She was then called by the Lord to finish her earthly life as a prayer intercessor, a calling that she faithfully fulfilled until her death. In February 2003, at the age of 80, she was asked to return to the position of Missions and Outreach Secretary at Faith Presbyterian Church, a servanthood which was the delight of her life. She maintained this position until her second retirement on April 27, 2012, at the age of 89.
Through it all, she was a voracious reader, with a library of some 800 books. But after her second retirement, she also focused on writing. She completed a genealogical history of the Musselman family that she had been working on for many years. During the following six years, she wrote and published two other volumes of genealogy-one on her father's family and the other on her mother's family. A fourth publication, a memoir titled One-Half of Double Trouble, was a work completed over 25 years, dealing with her life as a twin and as a wife and mother. Before her death, she published a sequel, titled All the Things I Forgot to Tell You.
She was baptized on May 29, 1939 upon confession of her faith in Jesus Christ. After completing her elementary and secondary schooling, she attended Wichita Business College, where she graduated with honors and a lifetime scholarship.
She married George Christian Musselman on July 12, 1942. They established their first home in Wichita, Kansas. There, she was employed by the government, and subsequently, held a position as a legal secretary. She and George moved to Denver, Colorado in September, 1946. She resided there until she moved to Prairie Sunset Home in Pretty Prairie, Kansas in November, 2022. George and Della had four children, Michael, Donna, Timothy, and James. Timothy, and her husband, George, preceded her in death.
Della's hands and mind were seldom idle. While she raised her family, she continued to pursue her business career, maintaining a full secretarial service office in her home. When her children were of responsible age and attending private school, she closed her home office and returned to the outside business world, accepting an administrative and executive secretarial position with a civil engineering firm. She continued in that field until her first retirement in 1982.
She spent much of the next decade traveling around the United States with her husband, George. But she came out of retirement in 1992 to accept a volunteer position in the Missions Office of Faith Presbyterian Church, where she continued until 1997, when she left to care for George until his death in 1999.
She was then called by the Lord to finish her earthly life as a prayer intercessor, a calling that she faithfully fulfilled until her death. In February 2003, at the age of 80, she was asked to return to the position of Missions and Outreach Secretary at Faith Presbyterian Church, a servanthood which was the delight of her life. She maintained this position until her second retirement on April 27, 2012, at the age of 89.
Through it all, she was a voracious reader, with a library of some 800 books. But after her second retirement, she also focused on writing. She completed a genealogical history of the Musselman family that she had been working on for many years. During the following six years, she wrote and published two other volumes of genealogy-one on her father's family and the other on her mother's family. A fourth publication, a memoir titled One-Half of Double Trouble, was a work completed over 25 years, dealing with her life as a twin and as a wife and mother. Before her death, she published a sequel, titled All the Things I Forgot to Tell You.
Della Mae Stucky was born March 21, 1923, in Pretty Prairie, Kansas. She was the third daughter (one of twins) born to Henry Samuel and Lena Bertha Schwartz Stucky. She went to be with the Lord on the 31st day of July, 2023, at the age of 100 years, 4 months, and 10 days.
She was baptized on May 29, 1939 upon confession of her faith in Jesus Christ. After completing her elementary and secondary schooling, she attended Wichita Business College, where she graduated with honors and a lifetime scholarship.
She married George Christian Musselman on July 12, 1942. They established their first home in Wichita, Kansas. There, she was employed by the government, and subsequently, held a position as a legal secretary. She and George moved to Denver, Colorado in September, 1946. She resided there until she moved to Prairie Sunset Home in Pretty Prairie, Kansas in November, 2022. George and Della had four children, Michael, Donna, Timothy, and James. Timothy, and her husband, George, preceded her in death.
Della's hands and mind were seldom idle. While she raised her family, she continued to pursue her business career, maintaining a full secretarial service office in her home. When her children were of responsible age and attending private school, she closed her home office and returned to the outside business world, accepting an administrative and executive secretarial position with a civil engineering firm. She continued in that field until her first retirement in 1982.
She spent much of the next decade traveling around the United States with her husband, George. But she came out of retirement in 1992 to accept a volunteer position in the Missions Office of Faith Presbyterian Church, where she continued until 1997, when she left to care for George until his death in 1999.
She was then called by the Lord to finish her earthly life as a prayer intercessor, a calling that she faithfully fulfilled until her death. In February 2003, at the age of 80, she was asked to return to the position of Missions and Outreach Secretary at Faith Presbyterian Church, a servanthood which was the delight of her life. She maintained this position until her second retirement on April 27, 2012, at the age of 89.
Through it all, she was a voracious reader, with a library of some 800 books. But after her second retirement, she also focused on writing. She completed a genealogical history of the Musselman family that she had been working on for many years. During the following six years, she wrote and published two other volumes of genealogy-one on her father's family and the other on her mother's family. A fourth publication, a memoir titled One-Half of Double Trouble, was a work completed over 25 years, dealing with her life as a twin and as a wife and mother. Before her death, she published a sequel, titled All the Things I Forgot to Tell You.
She was baptized on May 29, 1939 upon confession of her faith in Jesus Christ. After completing her elementary and secondary schooling, she attended Wichita Business College, where she graduated with honors and a lifetime scholarship.
She married George Christian Musselman on July 12, 1942. They established their first home in Wichita, Kansas. There, she was employed by the government, and subsequently, held a position as a legal secretary. She and George moved to Denver, Colorado in September, 1946. She resided there until she moved to Prairie Sunset Home in Pretty Prairie, Kansas in November, 2022. George and Della had four children, Michael, Donna, Timothy, and James. Timothy, and her husband, George, preceded her in death.
Della's hands and mind were seldom idle. While she raised her family, she continued to pursue her business career, maintaining a full secretarial service office in her home. When her children were of responsible age and attending private school, she closed her home office and returned to the outside business world, accepting an administrative and executive secretarial position with a civil engineering firm. She continued in that field until her first retirement in 1982.
She spent much of the next decade traveling around the United States with her husband, George. But she came out of retirement in 1992 to accept a volunteer position in the Missions Office of Faith Presbyterian Church, where she continued until 1997, when she left to care for George until his death in 1999.
She was then called by the Lord to finish her earthly life as a prayer intercessor, a calling that she faithfully fulfilled until her death. In February 2003, at the age of 80, she was asked to return to the position of Missions and Outreach Secretary at Faith Presbyterian Church, a servanthood which was the delight of her life. She maintained this position until her second retirement on April 27, 2012, at the age of 89.
Through it all, she was a voracious reader, with a library of some 800 books. But after her second retirement, she also focused on writing. She completed a genealogical history of the Musselman family that she had been working on for many years. During the following six years, she wrote and published two other volumes of genealogy-one on her father's family and the other on her mother's family. A fourth publication, a memoir titled One-Half of Double Trouble, was a work completed over 25 years, dealing with her life as a twin and as a wife and mother. Before her death, she published a sequel, titled All the Things I Forgot to Tell You.
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