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Smucker, Barbara Claassen (1915-2003)
Barbara Claassen Smucker: children's fiction writer and librarian; born 1 September 1915 in Newton, Kansas, to Cornelius W.
(a banker) and Addie (Lander) Claassen, oldest child, only daughter, along with three younger brothers, Lander, Walter, and Morris.
Barbara smucker author biography in the background
She married Donovan Smucker, college professor and minister, on 21 January 1939. They had two sons, Timothy and Thomas, and a daughter Rebecca. Barbara was baptized at age 12 in the Presbyterian Church in Newton, Kansas. At the time of her death she was a member of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio.
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She died 29 July 2003 at Mennonite Memorial Home and is buried in Maple Grove cemetery, Bluffton, Ohio.
After attending Bethel College in Kansas for a year, Barbara earned a BS (1936) in journalism from Kansas State University at Manhattan.
She taught high school English in Harper, Kansas (1937-8), then returned to he