Merry Clare Stewart Fourhman Obituary (1943

Mrs. Merry Clare Stewart Fourhman , age 82 of Madison, Indiana, entered this life on February 4, 1943 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She was the loving daughter of the late Joseph E. and Clara Burau Stewart. She graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor's Degree in Education and earned a Master's Degree in Library Sciences. She was united in marriage to Robert Allen Fourhman on June 12, 1966 in Park Forest, Illinois. This happy union of nearly 50 years was blessed with a son, Karsh, and a daughter, Katherine. She was a teacher and media specialist in Illinois and Michigan before moving to Madison, Indiana in 1972. She worked at Jennings County High School, retiring from there in 2003. She was a member of the Faith Lutheran Church in Madison and enjoyed going out to dinner, reading, sewing, baking, cooking, and traveling. Merry died on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 5:10 p.m. at the River Terrace Health Campus in Madison, Indiana. Please Click Here to View the Funeral Service Recording Please Click Here to View the Video Tribute A LOVING FAMILY Merry will be missed by her loving son, Karsh Fourhman and his wife Shelby Hope of Newland, North Carolina; her loving daughter, Katherine Jones and her husband Kenneth of Tonawanda, New York; her grandchildren, Breckin Fourhman, Abigail Fourhman, Millicent Jones, and Robert Jones; her step-grandchildren, Amanda, Brandon, Andrew, Amber, & Aurora; several nieces, nephew and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph E. Stewart, her mother, Clara Burau Stewart, her sister, Phyllis Doxstader, her brothers, Joseph Stewart, Jr. and Ronald K. Stewart, her husband, Robert Allen Fourhman, died March 14, 2016. FUNERAL CEREMONY Funeral services will be conducted on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., by Pastor Jeff Pflug at the Faith Lutheran Church, 3024 North Michigan Road in Madison, Indiana. Interment will follow in the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 1415 North Gate Road in Madison, Indiana. VISITATION Friends may visit Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Indiana and Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service until the time of service at the Faith Lutheran Church, 3024 North Michigan Road in Madison, Indiana. MEMORIAL EXPRESSIONS Memorial contributions may be made to the Faith Lutheran Church. Cards are available at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centres of Madison and Hanover. Online condolences, remembrances and memorials can be left at www.morgan-nay.com To Place An Online Memorial Donation To send a flower arrangement in memory of Merry Clare Stewart Fourhman, please click here to visit our sympathy store.