Vada June Scribner

Vada J. Scribner, age 88 of Meadowwood Drive in Toledo, died June 18, 2021 at the Toledo Hospital. She was born June 11, 1933 in the Putnam County rural community of Rice to Walter M. Ernsberger and Phila Morceau (Hill) Ernsberger. She grew up in Bryan, Ohio. On October 29, 1955 Vada married Thomas Lee Scribner and he preceded her in death in January of 2018. She was graduated from Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Wayne, Indiana and received her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Joseph College of Windham, Maine. Vada completed advanced studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She worked 63 ½ years in the nursing profession, retiring after 26 ½ of those years working as an occupational nurse with the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. Vada was a long-term member of Monroe Street Methodist Church and volunteered in the Chaplain’s office in Toledo Hospital. She was a nurse at the Muscular Dystrophy Camp. She was a member of the Needle Arts Guild of Toledo. Her hobbies were stitchery, needlepoint, knitting, quilting of which she shared with friends and family. She taught sewing to inner-city group. Also surviving are daughter, Elizabeth (Michael) Roland of Hamilton, Ohio; three grandsons, Heath Travis Shearer, Garret Blake (Erin) Shearer, and Jobe Ethan Shearer; great-granddaughter, Elane Ann McIntosh; step-grandchildren, Michael (Jamie) Roland, Lucy (Kevin) Coovert, Morris (Christina) Roland and Randall (Linda) Roland; step-great-grandchildren; and sisters, Alice (Earl) Shankster, of Bryan, Ohio, Wilma (Phillip) White, of Waterford, Michigan. She was preceded in death by siblings, Robert (Dorothy) Ernsberger, Betty (James) Kuszmaul, and Marvel (William) Runkle. There will be no visitation. Services will be private with interment at Ottawa Hills Memorial Park. Those offering an expression of sympathy are asked to consider: Bryan Area Foundation, Box 651, Bryan, Ohio 43506 or Monroe Street Methodist Church, 3613 Monroe St. Toledo, Ohio 43606. The Walker Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements, 419.841.2422.