On January 29, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Nolene Carol (Mochel) Rauschenberger of Elwood, Indiana was miraculously healed as she crossed heavens border. In fact, she ran to meet her two grandsons as she saw them in the distance. She once again was able to hug her brothers, her older sister, and her parents who went before her. But the greatest thing was she met Jesus face to face and was able to thank him personally for changing her life! She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Bernard Lee Rauschenberger, four children Brian (Jamie) Rauschenberger, Lisa (Robert) Price, Amy (Nathan) Bryant, David (Melinda) Rauschenberger, 15 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, and 2 sisters Helen (Gary) McLafferty, and Mary (Howard) Smock.
There will be a Celebration of Life Dinner and Memorial on March 2, 2018 At 6PM at the Noblesville Pilgrim Holiness Church Family Life Center, 1413 Westfield Rd, Noblesville, IN 46062.
Phyllis says
Mary my prayers are with you and your family.
Patricia Sapp says
Praying for Pa and the entire family,Ma was one of a kind,She will be missed greatly!
Rob and Lydia Raines says
We are sorry for your loss, but know she is happy, healthy, and whole with Jesus
Lisa (McElwain) Wasylyk says
Celebrating her graduation, but grieving the deep loss for all of you.
Donald Nichols says
So sorry for your great loss. Your wife/mother was a great lady. Praying the God of all comfort will be especially near at this time. Don and Ruth Nichols
Rebecca Storey says
Sending my love, prayers, and condolences to all of the family.
Roger and Kay says
We extend our sympathy to the whole family. I don’t have any addresses. We have many memories from when you all lived around Stoneboro. Our love and prayers, Roger and Kay Patterson
Brad Mullins says
Ma Rauschenberger
As I get older I have realized that my heroes are going on before me and today is one of those days. I lost a friend, a hero and a person that I admired beyond words. Nolene Rauschenberger, affectionately known as “Ma”. You see, Ma wasn’t just somebody that I casually knew, she went way beyond that for me as she did many of my friends that knew her and loved her
In 1988 my family moved from Idaho to Up State NY, I was 17 and struggling to grasp the reality of late teenhood. My parents had the difficult task of throwing me into a new school, a new living environment and a completely different culture. This is when the decision was made for me to go to a boarding School in Southwest Missouri. The Rauschenbergers were not dorm parents at this time but I had two years left of high school and they came shortly after I started my junior year at MZBS.
Bud and Nolene Rauschenberger came into my life as dorm parents somewhere in late 88 or 89. Ma saw me through several girlfriends, part-time jobs, parties, birthdays, Christmas and Thanksgiving when I couldn’t go home for the holidays. Ma was a second mother to me and she was a friend that taught me more about life in a 1 ½ year span than anybody, any job, any teacher, any professor, any college, any institution.
Ma taught me to believe in myself and my dreams, she taught me that it was ok to cry and necessary to love. She taught me how to treat people and how I should be treated. Ma taught me that there was more to life than a grand education and money and possessions, she taught me that God was first no matter what circumstances or situations that life may bring my way; there is never a substitute for God.
Ma Rauschenberger taught me how to have fun with money or in poverty. She was more than a dorm mother, she took on the role of “real” mother. She comforted when I hurt, she scolded when necessary and she made sure that I was treated with the same love and dignity that she always bestowed to her own biological children.
Ma Rauschenberger was a one of a kind jewel that I am so fortunate to have had the honor and privilege to know and have as a second mother, teacher, and friend.
It has been a very long time since the last time that I saw Ma, but we kept in contact over the years and would often call each other. Ma was quite the lady I always thought I would call for a quick 5-minute hello; it would always end up a 90-minute phone call. She was always interested in my life, how things were going and what new adventure I was in the middle of. She never left a phone call without telling me how much she loved me and that she was proud of me and that she was rooting for my success. She also never left a phone call without telling me to save a place for God and never forget that He must be kept first or that everything else in life would be a failure.
Ma, thanks for all of the Thanksgiving dinners, the Christmas dinners, and the birthday parties. Thanks for the season pass to Silver Dollar City and the too many trips to count. Thanks for the ride to Harrisburg and the ride to St. Louis. Thanks for coming to my Basic Training Graduation in Ft. Leonard Wood and bringing my friends. Thanks for the many, many trips to Springfield when you probably couldn’t really afford it. Thanks for the ride to Oklahoma, thanks for keeping in touch with me when I was down and out. Times haven’t always been good since 1990 but you never left me as a friend. Thank you for hanging around through thick and thin. You have been a true friend and a blessing in the good and bad times. Thanks for wanting to know my children and always having wonderful things to say about my own family. Thank you for raising a wonderful family of your own. They are my dear friends to this day and thanks for all the trouble you let David and I get into! Thanks for being my friend David. You are my friend because of your mother and dad. I will always love all of you.
Ma I could write a book about the short year and ½ that I spent in your home but I’ll save it for our next 90-minute chat, in the next life. Every day I am reminded that there really is a purpose in striving for heaven. You just gave me one more reason Ma.
I have missed you for a long time because I haven’t seen you in a long time. I will continue missing you until I see you again. I can’t call you back nor would I. You are pain-free and singing those sweet hymns that you loved so much. Congratulations Ma, you made it.
My deepest condolences to Bud and the entire Rauschenberger family. I loved your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and sister. She was a friend and someone that loved me and prayed for me. I will never forget her love for me.
Ma, one last thing; say hello to Ben for us, tell him we will see him soon.
Love You Forever
Brad Mullins
rebekah trierweiler says
Ma – I shed tears as I write this. You meant the world to me. At 45 I look back on a world I did not understand and people who did not understand me and then there was you. In my darkness, you and Pa were my light and I was your Rebekah of Sunnybrook Farms. Even as an adult you were there with your little private “mom” messages for me. I will always love and cherish each and every moment. Someday we will be together again but I am glad you have no more pain, suffering or sorrow. I will always love you – beky
Mindy Powers says
Dear Uncle Bud and family, my heart is hurting for all of you. Aunt Nolene came back into my life with Facebook and I have very much appreciated her kind and generous support over the past year, especially when my husband was very ill, she was always a sunbeam and reminded me that God will hear what you tell him. Her kind words and sincere and true belief and faith encouraged me during some dark days, I will not forget this, or her. My sweet Uncle Bud, I know you will certainly feel the void of her passing, but I believe that she will walk silently, from above, with you and the family each day. My love to all of you, Mindy Benson Powers