Stanley E. Greathouse

	Stanley E. Greathouse, 86, of Johnsonville, passed away at 3:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital.
	Mr. Greathouse was a farmer, teacher and administrator.  He was born December 11, 1916 in Wayne county, the son of Keith and Maude (Holler) Greathouse.  He married Iona Lamb on September 2, 1941 in Perryville, Mo. and she preceded him in death in January 1982.  He later married Vera (Ferguson) Beard in Wayne County in 1984.
	Mr. Greathouse was a member of Community of Christ Church Poplar Creek Branch and a U.S. Army veteran of WW II.
	Upon graduation from Salem High School, he worked on a farm in northern Illinois and a steel mill at Sterling to pay his tuition to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he received his bachelor of arts degree in social studies in 1938.  He taught for four years at Wild Cat and 11 years at Brown, Concord and Mills, which were all one room schools.  He served in the army from 1941 to 1944.  He then entered farming, raising grain and livestock, while continuing to teach.  In 1957 he became teacher and principal at Orchardville Grade School.
	In 1973 he was honored as Conservation Teacher of the Year by the local conservation district and also district 13.  The next year, he was presented with the Distinguished Service Award in Public School Administration by Phi Delta Kappa at SIU.  In 1977, WMCL Radio in McLeansboro awarded him the Community Service Award.  Stanley retired in 1977 after 32 years as a teacher and administrator.
	He became a director on the Wayne-White Electric Cooperative Board in 1964, where he served as assistant treasurer in 1970, president from 1972 to 1975 and vice president from 1976 to 1977.  He served as Wayne-White Electric's representative on the AIEC state board, was elected vice president of the board in 1972, then served as president until 1977.  Stanley represented Illinois as its director on the board of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Washington for 10 years.
	His other memberships include the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, serving as its regional director and on committees for budget and insurance; National Education Association; Wayne County Association for Retarded Children; Wayne County Farm Bureau; the Farmer's Union and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension Service.  Stanley helped for the Wayne County Health Department and served on the Wayne County Health Board.
	Stanley had long been active in his local church, serving as pastor to the Poplar Creek and Brush Creek congregations of the Community of Christ, performing many wedding and funeral ceremonies of former students, friends and associates.  To put it simply, he has made life better in his neighborhood.
	Surviving are his wife, Vera Greathouse of Johnsonville; one daughter, Ann Schwengel and husband Jon of Du Quoin; two grandchildren, Erika Clements and husband Joe of Marion and Andrew Schwengel, U.S. Navy, Jacksonville, Fla.; two great-grandchildren, Ellie and Jake Clements of Marion; one brother, Arthur Greathouse and wife Dorothy of Mountain Home, Arkansas and one sister, Wanda Ires of Laguna Hills, Calif.
	He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Iona, and one brother, Darrel.
	Funeral services were Saturday at 2 p.m. at Poplar Creek Community of Christ Church in Orchardville with Evangelist Marvin Kleinau officiating.  Interment was in Poplar Creek Cemetery in rural Wayne County.
	Friends called Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Frank & Bright Funeral Home in Flora and from 12 p.m. Saturday until service time at the church.
	Memorials may be made to Poplar Creek Community of Christ.
	You are encouraged to write a personal special memory about Stanley to be left for the family at the visitation or mail to the family at R1 Box 61, Johnsonville, IL  62850.
