Anna I. Dukesherer

A. Ida Dukesherer, 94, of Benton Harbor, went to meet her Lord & Savior, Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at Lakeland Continuing Care Center, St. Joseph.A Celebration of Life Service will be held 11:30 A.M. Friday at Kerley-Starks & Menchinger Family Funeral Home, 2650 Niles Rd., St. Joseph with Rev. Robert Confer officiating. Graveside services will be held at 3:00 P.M. Friday at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Sodus. Friends may call beginning one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to First Church of God Endowment Fund or Feed the Children. Those wishing to share a memory or sign the guest book online may do so at www.starks-menchinger.com. Mrs. Dukesherer was born June 24, 1910 in Poland to Julius & Maria (Getz) Peters. On May 5, 1934 she married Leo Dukesherer in South Bend, Indiana. Together they operated a fruit farm in Sodus & Eau Claire beginning in 1940. Ida was a member of the First Church of God in St. Joseph. Mrs. Dukesherer is survived by her son-Jack (Evelyn) Dukesherer of Benton Harbor; three grandchildren-Sharon (Steven) McCloughan of Elkhart, IN; Rhonda (Devin) McCray of Sodus; Kevin (Lisseth) Dukesherer of San Diego, CA; four great grandchildren-Erin & Jackie McCloughan, Justin & Melissa Mauchmar; a step-great-granddaughter-Jourdan McCray; a brother-Adolph (Mickey) Peters of Mesa, AZ; two sisters-Edna Rowlee of Eaton Rapids, MI, Violet (Jim) Harper of Texas; a half brother Gus Peters of Naubinway, MI and a half sister Evelyn Schutze of Niles. She was preceded in death by her parents, her step mother-Tillie Peters, her husband Leo on April 23, 2003, and by several half & step brothers & sisters.