HUHNDORF, Emma Frances

Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, Arizona Published Sunday, January 4, 2009 Emma Frances Huhndorf, a long time resident of Lake Havasu City, died Dec. 24, 2008, in Laguna Hills, Calif. Emma was born Feb. 5, 1919, in Oxnard, Calif., to Cleveland Cash and Effie Hauser Cash. She met Stanley Huhndorf at church in Oxnard and they were married Aug. 23, 1942. Family was very important to Emma and she created warm and loving homes throughout her life with Stan in the many places they lived in California, Arizona and New York. Emma and Stanley moved to Lake Havasu City in 1982 and were members of St. Michael’s United Methodist Church. Stanley died in Lake Havasu City in 2005. Emma was very industrious and had an eclectic professional life that extended from work in Poggi's Drug Store in Oxnard, a society reporter for the local Oxnard newspaper, piano teaching, teaching release time Christian education, to her last position as a teacher's assistant in special education in California. In her home life she wrote four books of her memoirs, was a weaver, a seamstress extraordinaire, and a woman with never ending projects. Her family, her faith, her teaching were the cornerstones of her life and her generous spirit led her to volunteer to teach others and to support children through the Christian Children's fund for many years. Her survivors include Pamela Bolen, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Cathleen Bartels, of Laguna Beach, Calif., Michael Huhndorf, of Santa Ana, Calif., three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.