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Birth:          9 Dec 1940 Sandusky, Ohio
Death:          10 May 2020 
Cause of Death: lymphoma

Notes
!PUBL
1981 book:
In 1985, SueAnn lived in Whittenberg, Wis.
Source: Lew Maule (1EE1111)
1990: PO Box 55 Wittenberg, WI 54499
facebook: from Castalia, Ohio, Margaretta HS 1958, Capital Univ 1962, lives in 
Stevens Point, Wisc.
26 Nov 2012 fb msg from Sue Ann: " read books at home and do questions for the 
Accelerated Reader program in the schools. It is an international program. The 
company, Renaissance Learning, started very small, grew quickly and was recently 
bought by an English company. So some of the books are British now. I have to go 
about 30 miles one afternoon a week to do editing. Great part time job."
fb post on her account by her son Mike McAbee
https://spmetrowire.com/sue-ann-nee-maule-mcabee-79/
Sue Ann (nee Maule) McAbee, 79
 May 15, 2020
Sue Ann (Maule) McAbee, age 79, added her soprano to the choirs of Heaven on May 
10, 2020, as a result of lymphoma. Sue Ann was born in Sandusky, Ohio, on 
December 9, 1940, to Harry and Marie (Grealy) Maule.

Sue Ann was a direct decedent of Thomas Maule, a Quaker, who settled in Salem, 
Massachusetts in 1668. He was jailed for publicly criticizing the Puritan leaders and 
was acquitted for expressing his religious beliefs, a pivotal point in leading the 
adoption of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In fear that Sue Ann would not survive, at five weeks of age and fighting whooping 
cough, Sue Ann became a child of God through baptism into her German great-
grandparents’ Lutheran faith.

Sue Ann grew up as an only child and was blessed with the attention of both parents. 
She had a delightful childhood fishing with her father, watching him build the family’s 
home in Castalia, Ohio, and riding with him from the age of three on his Indian 
motorcycle. Inside their home, alongside her mother, she learned to sew, take care of 
a home, and become an excellent cook.

Sue Ann was valedictorian of the class of 1958 at Margaretta High School in Castalia. 
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, in 
1962, where she met her husband, Roger Leon McAbee, in the lunch line. They were 
married on September 2, 1962, at Grace Lutheran Church in Castalia.

Sue Ann’s work life was dictated by where Roger’s study and ministry led them. While 
he studied at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, she worked in public 
relations from the Tuberculosis Society and as an assistant at the Ohio State 
University music library. Roger’s year of internship took them to Zion Lutheran Church 
in Ferndale, Michigan.

After Roger was ordained in 1965, he was called to two small rural churches in 
Southwestern Wisconsin. Being a pastor’s wife kept Sue Ann busy, and it was in 
Dodgeville, Wisconsin, where their two children, Dawn and Michael, were born. She 
was able to be a stay-at-home mom during Roger’s ministry in Wooster, Ohio, and 
Forrest, Illinois.

Sue Ann returned to the workforce in suburban Chicago, where she learned to set 
type on a computer, which assured her of a job on a chain of suburban newspapers, 
and also in Wausau, after the family moved to Wittenberg, Wisconsin. During the 23 
years they spent in Wittenberg while Roger served as chaplain at Homme Home of the 
Aging, Sue Ann branched from typesetting to a variety of occupations. She worked in 
direct sales with Home Interiors; she planned Jail and Bails and Chef’s Auctions for 
the March of Dimes; was the director of the Wittenberg Senior Center, and did 
telephone sales for Neuske’s Meat. Her favorite positions highlighted her passion for 
news and writing, serving as a columnist targeting interesting local residents for the 
Wittenberg weekly newspaper, and even more so, covering news in Antigo and 
Rhinelander, Wisconsin for WATK/WRLO.

Sue Ann’s activities at Trinity included serving on the church council, youth and 
worship committees, and Stephen Ministry. She was a graduate of the East Central 
Synod of Wisconsin, ELCA, Lay School of Ministry, and participated in continuing 
education classes. She recorded obituaries and news for the Portage County 
Caregivers and served a year reading with second graders for United Way.

Above all, Sue Ann’s family and faith were highlights of her life. She is survived by her 
daughter, Dawn McAbee, Plover, and Dawn’s sons, Justin McAbee-Jensen, Wisconsin 
Rapids, and Austin Jensen, Plover. She is further survived by her son, Michael 
McAbee, Postville, Iowa, and his children, Lula, Postville, and Abraham, Wausau, 
Wisconsin. She is further survived by a grand-granddaughter, three great-grandsons, 
including Gavyn Jensen, who kept her feeling young and had a special place in her 
heart.

Sue Ann was preceded in death by her parents, Harry and Marie Maule, and her 
husband, Roger, who died an untimely death in 2006 from a brain tumor.

Due to COVID-19, details for a Memorial Service will be held announced at a later 
date. Burial of her ashes will be at a later date in the Maule family plot in Castalia 
Cemetery in Castalia, Ohio.

“We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the 
Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord, so then, whether we live or whether we die, 
we are the Lord’s. For to this end, Christ died and lived again, so that he might be 
Lord of both the dead and the living.” Romans 14:7-9

Contributions in Sue Ann’s Honor may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church of Stevens 
Point, the East Central Wisconsin Lay School, Capital University, Trinity Lutheran 
Seminary of Columbus. Ohio, or the charity of the donor’s choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.bostonfuneralhome.net.

Parents
MAULE Harry William (19 Jan 1913 - 8 Jan 1996)
GREALY Marie Albertina (20 Apr 1915 - 22 May 1985)

Siblings
MAULE Sue Ann (9 Dec 1940 - 10 May 2020)

Marriage To MCABEE Roger Leon (26 Nov 1938 - 21 Nov 2006)
    m. 2 Sep 1962 Grace Lutheran Church, Castalia, Ohio

Notes

Parents
MCABEE Leon ()
SULLIVAN Ercelle ()

Children by MCABEE Roger Leon 26 Nov 1938 - 21 Nov 2006
MCABEE Dawn Marie ()
MCABEE Michael Roger ()

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