Pansy Lee (Stanley) Schuelke, daughter of the late W.J. and Rosa Emma (Swopes) Stanley, was born May 4, 1935, at Hartville, Missouri, and departed this life January 8, 2024, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. She was 88 years, 8 months, and 4 days of age.
Pansy graduated from Mountain Grove High School with the class of 1953. She met and fell in love with Jimmie Schuelke. They were united in marriage on June 16, 1953, and three sons were born to this union: Stephen, Jack, and Peter. They moved to Davenport, Iowa, where they built their home with their own hands and raised their family. They moved back to Missouri in January of 1971, and Pansy worked as a seamstress at H.D. Lee Company for twenty years. After Jim and Pansy retired, they got an RV and headed toward Alaska. The couple spent the next eight years driving all over the country together, before settling on their property near Grovespring, Missouri.
Jim and Pansy loved to garden together. They always had a large garden, and she even continued growing tomato plants in the nursing home. She liked to can the produce that she grew, and she also enjoyed sewing. Pansy enjoyed feeding and watching the birds that would come to her feeders. She was an open book, and you never had to wonder where you stood with her. She was a loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmie Schuelke, and one sister, Thetta Yates.
Pansy is survived by three sons, Stephen Schuelke and his wife, Joy, of Buffalo, Missouri, Jack Schuelke and his wife, Maxi, of Grand Prairie, Texas, and Peter Schuelke and his wife, Carmen, of Forney, Texas, five grandchildren, Curt Darnell and his wife, Melissa, Matthew Darnell and his wife, Breann, Melanie Varner and her husband, Eddie, David Schuelke and his wife, Jay, and Peter Schuelke and his wife, Crystal, eleven great-grandchildren, one brother, Bill Stanley and his wife, Annette, one sister, Dinah Cooke and her husband, James, and many other extended family and friends who will miss her.
Visitation for Pansy Schuelke was held Thursday, January 11, 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M., Minister Joshua Ortiz officiating. Song selections were: “Amazing Grace’’ and “Nearer My God To Thee.’’ Pallbearers were: Stephen Schuelke, Jack Schuelke, Peter Schuelke, Curt Darnell, Peter T. Schuelke, and Matthew Darnell. Burial was at Boyer Cemetery, Hartville, Missouri. Memorial contributions may be made to Boyer Cemetery in care of the funeral home.
