Suzanne Enger

Suzanne Enger, age 62, passed away on June 16, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. She was preceded in death by her father Hans Guenther. Her survivors are her husband, Col. James Marc Enger, USAF Ret.; her sons, William C. Enger, Michael L. Enger and wife, Ginger, James H. Enger; her mother, Nancy Guenther of New Jersey; her sister, Diane Keeler of Boston, MA, and a brother, Peter Guenther of Fairfield, CT. In her 62 years she gently touched hundreds of lives as a friend, teacher, mentor, wife and mother. She grew up in a loving family, raised by Hans and Nancy Guenther along with her sister, Dianne, and brother, Peter, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

She chose her mother's alma mater, Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. She loved Colorado, enjoyed school and met the man she wanted as her friend and life mate. She moved to Denver after graduation and took a job as an elementary school teacher while she waited for her love to graduate from the US Air Force Academy. She married him in September of 1969 and followed him in the course of his career around the world.

First, it was graduate school at UCLA, followed by Intelligence Training back in Denver, and then it was home to her parents for a year as he went to Southeast Asia. While at home, she taught again for most of a year until she went to Germany for three and a half years. In Germany, she taught three years for the DOD school system. While there, she built memories and friendships that lasted over all the years. After Germany, she moved to Great Falls, Montana and Motherhood. William and Michael were born there. Four years later, it was down the road to Omaha, Nebraska, where except for one year in Montgomery, Alabama, for Marc's school, she lived for the next 12 years. James, her third son, was born there. As she says, these were her "Earth Mother" years. It was kids, friends and child centered activities.. She was a Sunday school teacher, "home mother", and Cub Scout leader. Washington DC was next, so it was suburbs, high school for William and Michael and weekends spent juggling which events she would attend.

San Antonio was the next and last move. In 1994, she set up the house, enrolled the last two boys in school and decided she was ready to go back to teaching full time. She found the job of her dreams, a kindergarten in an outstanding school, Redland Oaks. Her colleagues and students were a joy. When Marc hung up his uniform, she wanted to stay in San Antonio and continue teaching which she happily did until this year. She lived to see all sons graduate from college, one son happily married and another engaged.

Suzanne's heart was large, her faith strong and her love enduring.