Doris Enskat

Doris Enskat
Doris J. Enskat, 82, of Mansfield, Ohio, born Oct. 20, 1925, in East St. Louis, Ill., died Friday, March 21, 2008, at Woodlawn Health Care and Rehabilitation after a long illness.
Doris married her husband of 61 years, Robert H. Enskat at Signal Hill Lutheran Church in Belleville, Ill., on Nov. 28, 1946, after graduating from East St. Louis High School and attending both Milliken University in Decatur and the University of Illinois in Champaign as a vocal performance music major. Doris worked as a receptionist and played the role of a fairy princess on radio before having children. She was a devoted wife and mother, Sunday school teacher for 18 years, Girl Scout leader and an active volunteer in her children's schools in Flint and Grand Blanc, Mich., and her Lutheran church in Michigan. Over the years, she played the piano and sang in many choirs, sang solos and duets in her church and was the soprano in a Sweet Adeline group. Once her daughters had both left home, Doris returned to office work at the University of Michigan's Flint campus until her husband's transfer to Mansfield with General Motors in 1976. Doris then resumed her volunteerism with the First English Lutheran Church, the MedCentral Auxiliary and as a tutor with the DeWald Community Center at the Salvation Army. She was an expert knitter and greatly enjoyed traveling with her husband.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Benjamin Harrison Baldwin and Ella Maude, nee Conley, Baldwin; two sisters, Clarice Baldwin and Eleanor Donaldson; two brothers, Carl R. Baldwin and Benjamin H. Baldwin; and infant daughter, Cynthia Lee Enskat.
She is survived by her husband, Robert H. Enskat; two daughters, Stephanie Barry and Jennifer Enskat; family friend, Andy Gardner; four grandchildren, Josh Barry, Jessica (Andy) Blair, John Mingallon and Emilie Mingallon; two great-granddaughters, Sadie and Heidi Blair; and numerous nephews and nieces.
Memorial contributions may be made to First English Lutheran Church, 53 Park Ave. West, Mansfield, Ohio 44902. Online guest registry at www.wappner.com.

Visitation: Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday, March 27, 2008, at First English Lutheran Church in Mansfield, Ohio.
Funeral: Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 27 at 11:00 a.m. at with Pastor Cloyd Kress officiating.

Visitation: Additional calling hours will take place at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 29,2008, at Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Ill. A graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Holy Cross Lutheran Cemetery, Collinsville, Illinois, conducted by Pastor Darwin Schrader.

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FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
Mansfield, Ohio