MARGARET (HUNSBERGER) SCHELLENBACH

Margaret Hunsberger Schellenbach May 3, 1914 - March 18, 2006 Margaret Schellenbach, 91, of Mishawaka, IN died Saturday morning, March 18, 2006 at Hospice House, South Bend, IN. She was born on May 3, 1914 in South Bend, IN to the late Charles and Nora (Marker) Hunsberger .

She graduated from Central High School, South Bend, IN in 1931 and from Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH with a piano major and violin minor, in 1938.

She married, her Oberlin college classmate, Warren R. Walworth on December 27, 1939 in Woodland, IN. They lived briefly in Tiffin, OH then moved to the New York City area where they resided until retiring to Hendersonville, NC in 1979. Warren preceded her in death on February 16, 1982.

On August 20, 1983 in Hendersonville, NC she married Burton Schellenbach, who died on February 26, 1992. In 1992, she moved to New Orleans to to be near one of her daughters. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in September 2005 she moved back to South Bend.

Music played a big part in Mrs. Schellenbach's life. She served as a church organist, choir director and recitalist in the Westchester County, New York area, the last 20 years at the Briarcliff Congregational Church. During this time, she was active in the American Guild of Organists, and studied piano and organ in New York and organ and harpsichord at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. In Hendersonville after retirement, she concentrated on chamber music and enjoyed learning and playing the wonderful repertoires of piano trios, quartets and quintets. In New Orleans and Mishawaka, she continued playing two piano, four-hand and solo piano music.

Mrs. Schellenbach is survived by her two daughters, Deborah Walworth Dengel and her husband, Carl A. Dengel of New Orleans, LA and Cynthia A. Walworth and her husband, Christopher Doern of White Plains, NY; three step-sons, Burton H. Schellenbach and his wife Susan Schaeffer-Schellenbach of North Hampton, Massachusetts, Cooper Schellenbach of Moab, UT and Antony Schellenbach and his wife Marijke of Centre, AL; and a sister, Louise Hunsberger of Bremen, IN.

Contributions in memory of Margaret Schellenbach may be offered to Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, 111 Sunnybrook Court, South Bend, IN or to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, 225 Baronne Street, Suite 910, New Orleans, LA 70112.

Published by The Times-Picayune on Mar. 23, 2006.

02/28/2023 EJS