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Dr Elmer Guy Cutshall

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Dr Elmer Guy Cutshall

Birth
Winthrop, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA
Death
3 Apr 1982 (aged 91)
Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Hixton, Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 16-O, grave 1
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Dr. E. Guy Cutshall, 91, of Hixton, died Saturday, April 3, at an Eau Claire hospital.
He was born June 17, 1890, in Iowa to Eli Grant and Marie Blake Cutshall.
He completed undergraduate studies at Cornell, earned his master’s degree at the University of Iowa and finished his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in 1922, graduating cum laude. He completed post graduate work in psychology in Pennsylvania and later earned Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Letters degrees.
In 1922, he became president of West Virginia Wesley and founded and directed
the Wesley Methodist Foundation of Philadelphia. He then became president of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, serving seven years.
In 1932 Dr. Cutshall moved his wife Neva, and four children to Lincoln, Neb. where he took over as chancellor of Nebraska Weslyan College. When he left there five years later his name was in Who’s Who and ten other dictionaries of biographies. He then toured Europe and North Africa in 1937-38 and for a year was the superintendent of an orphanage at Helena, Montana. He is the
author of “Philosophy of Methodism” and other church literature.
In 1953 he married Lucille Skutley of Hixton at Boise, Idaho and since 1953 Dr. Cutshall and his wife have resided near Hixton.
In addition to being survived by his widow, he is also survived by two sons, Dr. Vincent Cutshall and Dr. Vernon Cutshall, both of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; one daughter, Mrs. Vivian Edwards of Medord, Oregon; four sisters, Elsie Weitman of Hazelton, Iowa, Blanche Maley, Beulah Anderson and Hester Walthman, all of Waterloo, Iowa; nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. .
Funeral services were held April 6th from the Hixton Methodist Church.
Obituary found in the Banner Journal, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, April 7, 1982.
Dr. E. Guy Cutshall, 91, of Hixton, died Saturday, April 3, at an Eau Claire hospital.
He was born June 17, 1890, in Iowa to Eli Grant and Marie Blake Cutshall.
He completed undergraduate studies at Cornell, earned his master’s degree at the University of Iowa and finished his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in 1922, graduating cum laude. He completed post graduate work in psychology in Pennsylvania and later earned Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Letters degrees.
In 1922, he became president of West Virginia Wesley and founded and directed
the Wesley Methodist Foundation of Philadelphia. He then became president of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, serving seven years.
In 1932 Dr. Cutshall moved his wife Neva, and four children to Lincoln, Neb. where he took over as chancellor of Nebraska Weslyan College. When he left there five years later his name was in Who’s Who and ten other dictionaries of biographies. He then toured Europe and North Africa in 1937-38 and for a year was the superintendent of an orphanage at Helena, Montana. He is the
author of “Philosophy of Methodism” and other church literature.
In 1953 he married Lucille Skutley of Hixton at Boise, Idaho and since 1953 Dr. Cutshall and his wife have resided near Hixton.
In addition to being survived by his widow, he is also survived by two sons, Dr. Vincent Cutshall and Dr. Vernon Cutshall, both of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; one daughter, Mrs. Vivian Edwards of Medord, Oregon; four sisters, Elsie Weitman of Hazelton, Iowa, Blanche Maley, Beulah Anderson and Hester Walthman, all of Waterloo, Iowa; nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. .
Funeral services were held April 6th from the Hixton Methodist Church.
Obituary found in the Banner Journal, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, April 7, 1982.


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