The Lord Jesus Christ called Suzee to a new spiritual life at the age of eleven, and after a struggle with pancreatic cancer, on July 16, 2009 called her home at the age of sixty-six to be with Him.

Thank you to everyone for your prayer and support of our family over the past 14 months. We are thankful for the many years God gave us to spend with Suzee and the special time we spent with her this past year. We saw God answer many prayers though this time including the past few days of blessing Suzee with inner peace and confidence of her home going to her savior. She was blessed by a peaceful passing in her sleep as family was able to minister to her and be by her side that day. Among her last words were “I know the Holy Spirit is praying for me, because I am too week to pray myself.”

Born in Upper Montclair, NJ, as Suzanne Ward Stevens, she spent many summers in Spring Lake, NJ. After graduating from BeaverCollege (now ArcadiaUniversity) in 1965, in 1966 she was married to William F. Metzger (Will), a campus minister at Philadelphia area colleges and the University of Delaware. She was a resident of Newark, DE since 1974, a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Newark, and now a member of Berea Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Hockessin. Suzee’s God-given gifts were used in ministering to University students, especially Internationals, by hospitality, godly counsel, insights into relationships and suffering. Her fun-loving, outgoing, joyful nature, coupled with sensitivity and kindness to friends as well as acquaintances, endeared her to many. A bright smile, laugh, and sparkling eyes encouraged others and made her fun to be with. An ability to nurture was evident in raising two sons, and maintaining long-term spiritually based friendships with women via the Proverbs 31 Club and the Agape Girls group. Experiencing various physical difficulties over many years led to educating herself in traditional and alternative medicines and treatments, and the ability to advise others whose needs touched her. Exuberant when viewing God’s awesome creation, she responded in worship and a desire to capture the beauty of light and color in her paintings and photos. Her husband, Will, shall greatly miss her love for him which developed through hard times, partnership in living and spreading the gospel of sovereign grace, and her reflection of Christ in her roles as wife, mother, and grandmother of six.