Stanley graduated with majors in English and biology from Rio Grande College and he later earned a Master's degree from The Ohio State University in Educational Administration ('69). Stanley taught English and History in the Columbus City Schools for 40 years. He spent most of his tenure at Brookhaven High School. Stanley was a longtime member of Mountview Baptist Church in Upper Arlington where he served as a Sunday school teacher and church leader. More recently, he was a member of Dublin Baptist Church.
Stanley was an avid genealogist and he traced his family roots back to 1066. He loved all animals great and small and he hardly encountered a bird that he couldn't recognize. He rescued chimney swifts, owls, two groundhogs named Charlotte, and even bottle fed a baby raccoon. He was fascinated with history and felt that everyone he met had an important story that he wanted to hear and record.
Stanley loved the water and his canoe and took his family on many wild camping adventures. He read every roadside marker and visited every battleground on the East Coast where he would regale his family with their genealogical connections. He proudly cared for his family's homestead in Mercerville, Ohio for over twenty years.
Stanley's great pastime was fixing things. He delighted in finding discarded machines that he could repair in his workshop and use for another decade. He was the family mechanic and he reveled in the most challenging jobs. One of his most infamous was the full restoration of his daughter's car engine. Stanley maintained a fantastic variety of tools and machinery in his two workshops, as well as a library of sports equipment, movies, and electronics to share with family and friends.
Stan will be greatly missed by his wife of 53 years Gloria J. (Messenger) Lusher; his dog Charlie; his three daughters and sons-in-law: Tamara Lusher (Los Angeles, CA), Lindsey Lusher and Benjamin R. Shute (Germantown, NY), and Julie Lynne-Lusher and Andrew J. Rotherham (Falls Church, VA); and his six grandchildren: Hayden David Stocker, Ellery Shea Stocker, Susan Shenandoah Rotherham, Elizabeth Rose Rotherham, Piper Damaris Shute and Eleanor Anne Shute. Stanley is also survived by his three brothers and their wives: Reverend James and Nancy Lusher (Bidwell), Dan and Jane Lusher (Chillothe) and John Lusher (Mercerville); as well as many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A private service (due to Covid 19 precautions) will be held for the family and a livestream will be available. Interment will be held at the Old Mercerville Cemetery, Mercerville, Ohio.
Memorial contributions may be to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, https://www.michaeljfox.org/donate.
The livestream video will be available below Thursday afternoon.
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