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Mildred Ruth Schmidt
Mildred Ruth Schmidt, 75, of
Waverly, Kan., died Sept. 28, 2004,
at University Medical Center in Kansas City. She was born March
19, 1929, to Henry Isaac and Bertha Elizabeth Roesch Jarboe near
Iuka.
In 1941 she was baptized and joined the Dunkard Brethren Church
near Hasty, Colo., where her father was a minister.
On May 15, 1955, she married Esley Earl Schmidt in Grandview,
Mo.
She attended Hesston College and the La Junta (Colo.) Mennonite
School of Nursing, where she received her RN degree. During her
nursing career, she worked at the hospital in Harrisonville, Mo.,
and in a doctor's office in Grandview, Mo. While raising her family,
she was employed in the Coffey County Health Office in Burlington.
She visited Canada, Mexico, Australia and nine countries in Europe.
She and her husband placed and supervised more than 200 foreign
exchange students attending Kansas high schools, and created a
memorial scholarship fund for those students.
In 2003, she participated in a scientific medical study conducted
on myasthenia gravis patients by Kansas University and Duke University
and other institutions, and subsequently was hospitalized numerous
times.
Survivors include her husband, Esley Earl Schmidt; four children,
Rick Linn Schmidt and his wife, Cindy, of Lyndon, Jay Darwin Schmidt
and his wife, Carolee, of Waverly, Lori Lee Fischer and her husband,
Terry, of Waverly, and Neal Dean Schmidt and his fiance, Tammy
Kolacny, of Pueblo, Colo.; a sister, Twila Irene Rife of Papillion,
Neb.; and eight grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Thelma May Jarboe; and
a brother, Quentin Robert Jarboe.
A memorial service was held at Feltner Funeral Home in Lyndon.
Burial will be in Tabor Mennonite Church Cemetery north of Newton.
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Floyd E. Miller
Floyd E. Miller, 95, of
Filer, Idaho, died Nov. 5, 2004. He was
born July 1, 1909, to Levi and Mattie (Zook) Miller in Garden
City, Mo.
He attended Hesston (Kan.) Academy, where he met Freda Brunk.
They were married in 1932.
In the early years, they lived in Twin Falls, where he worked
for Young's Dairy. Then they moved back to Kansas, where he was
a farmer. Later he returned to Idaho, where he spent the remainder
of his life.
His wife, Freda, preceded him in death in 1971. He then married
Lydia Stutzman, who died in 1988. In 1992 he married Erma Snyder.
Survivors include his wife, Erma; eight children, Nadine Miller
and her husband, Clifford, of Hutchinson, Kan., Floyd Miller Jr.
and his wife, Marge, of Twin Falls, Bill Miller and his wife,
Sharon, of Pocatello, Ed Miller and his wife, Jan, of Medford,
Ore., Rita Miller and her husband, Emerson, of Caldwell, Keith
Miller and his wife, Vickie, of Nampa, Connie Anderson and her
husband, Neal, of Bend, Ore., and Bonnie Gerig and her husband,
Bob, of Lebanon, Ore.; three stepchildren, Joyce Yost and her
husband, Vern, of Denver, Dale Snyder of Winnemucca, Nev., and
Carol John of Seattle; a brother, Joe Miller of Eagle; 24 grandchildren
and 43 great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held at Kohlerlawn Cemetery in Nampa.
A memorial service was held at Filer Mennonite Church.
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Elda M. Plank
Elda M. Plank, 67, of
Fresno, Calif., died Nov. 8, 2004, from
a brain tumor. She was born to Henry A. and Margaret L. Friesen
in Meade, Kan.
She received her bachelors in nursing degree from Greenville College
and her PNP degree from Washington University School of Medicine.
Prior to her illness, she was a nurse practitioner with Fresno
Children's Medical Group. In her career, she worked at the Minneola
(Kan.) Clinic, East Petersburg Family Health Center of Lancaster,
Pa., York (Pa.) Clinic, and Sarasota (Fla.) Pediatrics. She also
spent six months in Zimbabwe in Africa working at a mission hospital.
She was a member of College Community Mennonite Brethren Church
of Fresno.
Survivors include her husband, Ed; a daughter, Denise; a sister,
Esther Smoker of Gap, Pa.; and four brothers, Pete M. Friesen
of Meade, Kan., Menno Friesen of Goshen, Ind., Dan Friesen of
Denver, Colo., and Marvin Friesen of Plains, Texas.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Wiens.
A graveside service was held at Clovis Cemetery. A memorial service
was held at College Community Mennonite Brethren Church.
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Robert W. Jantzi
Robert W. Jantzi, 77, of
Albany, Ore., died Nov. 12, 2004. He
was born May 1, 1927, to Royden B. and Anna (Gascho) Jantzi in
Wood River, Neb.
His mother died when he was 7. When his father married again two
years later, the family moved to the Albany area. After attending
school in Tangent, he began working at age 16 in the John Glaser
Seed Farms warehouse.
He was a charter member of Plainview Mennonite Church. He enjoyed
the outdoors and loved fishing, hunting, camping and spending
time with his grandchildren.
He married Doris Elaine Oswald on Aug. 21, 1949, at Fairview Mennonite
Church. They moved to the Plainview area outside of Shedd, where
they owned and operated a seed farm and warehouse. She preceded
him in death in December 1987.
He married Anne (Scheffel) Smucker on Feb. 10, 1990, in Vancouver,
Wash. They moved to Lebanon in August 1991, where they became
active in Lebanon Mennonite Church, and he enjoyed gardening.
They moved to Albany's Mennonite Village in March 2003.
Survivors include his wife, Anne; four children, Randall and his
wife, Arlene, of Lebanon, Roberta Egli and her husband, Lynn,
of Corvallis, Scott and his wife, Rhoda, of Salem, and Tami Jantzi
of Wiesbaden, Germany; a daughter-in-law, Theresa Jantzi of Davenport,
Iowa; stepchildren June and Tony Handrich of Salem, and Ray and
Val Smucker of Oregon City; three sisters, Shirley Boshart of
Shedd, Ruth Schlabach of Abbotsford, B.C., and Caroline Wolfer
of Tangent; four brothers, Roland of Lebanon, John of Silentz,
Leo of Edmonton, Alta., and Bill of Albany; 16 grandchildren and
a great-grandson.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Doris; a son, Curtis,
in February 2003; and by stillborn daughters Sharon and Debra.
Funeral services were held at Lebanon Mennonite Church. Burial
was in Fairview Mennonite Cemetery.
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Chester Paul Miller
Chester Miller, 95, of
Hesston, Kan., died Dec. 1, 2004, at Newton
Medical Center. He was born Feb. 23, 1909, to Jacob P. Miller
and Emma May Yoder Miller near Kalona, Iowa.
He married Lydia Leona Yoder on June 4, 1933, in the home of the
bride's parents near Kalona. He was a farmer in the Wellman and
Kalona area for most of his working days. For 38 years he raised
turkeys, sometimes having as many as 6,000 at one time. He and
Leona enjoyed traveling. In later years they spent many hours
playing table games together and with their friends. He had a
good sense of humor and enjoyed hearing and telling jokes. He
also had the gift of a keen mind and could remember many dates
of life events.
He accepted Christ as his personal Savior at an early age and
was baptized at East Union Mennonite Church near Kalona. Soon
after moving to the Wellman community in 1946, Chester joined
Wellman Mennonite Church, where he was a member for many years
before transferring his membership to Hesston Mennonite Church.
In 1971, they sold their farm near Wellman and moved to Palmer
Lake, Colo., where they worked with Frontier Boys Village. He
worked in maintenance. More important, he became friends with
the 45 boys at the village and was soon known as "Grandpa."
In 1976, they moved to Hesston. From this time until his health
would no longer allow, he spent many hours in his garden.
Survivors include two sons, Arlen Miller and his wife, Gwen, of
Grove City, Ohio, and Laurel Miller and his wife, Patricia, of
Hesston; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife of more than 70 years, Leona;
a brother, Lawrence Miller; and two sisters, Eldora Preston and
Leona Mandel.
Services were held at Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston. Burial
was in Eastlawn Cemetery near Hesston.
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Roy Wenger
Roy Wenger, 96, of Missoula,
Mont., died Nov. 30, 2004. He was
born May 20, 1908, to Joseph and Emma Gerig Wenger near Smithville,
Ohio.
The family attended Oak Grove Mennonite Church, where he was baptized.
He graduated from Bluffton (Ohio) College. After several years
of schoolteaching, he went to Ohio State University, where he
earned a doctorate in education.
In 1942 he was drafted and became a part of the Civilian Public
Service program. He was sent to CPS Camp #5 near Colorado Springs,
Colo., as the camp's educational director, but within six months
was transferred to Montana to open the first camp for "smoke
jumpers," who fought forest fires.
After the war, he and his wife, Florence, whom he married in 1941,
moved back to Ohio and established teaching careers. In 1948 he
went to Kent State University as its first director of audiovisual
education. In 1954, he was awarded a Fulbright Lecturer's Grant
to teach at the International Christian University in Japan. After
three years in Japan, he returned to Kent State, where he began
several new and innovative programs, including an international
exchange program. In 1971 he helped start the university's Center
for Peaceful Change. Now called the Center for Applied Conflict
Management, it was one of the first programs in the U.S. to offer
an undergraduate degree in conflict resolution. He remained on
the Kent State faculty until 1978.
After retiring, he moved to Missoula. He helped establish the
Golden College at the University of Montana, an educational program
for seniors and retirees.
Survivors include his wife, Lillian, whom he married in 1992 after
the death of his first wife in 1989; a daughter, Susan Duffy and
her husband, Patrick, of Missoula; and two granddaughters.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Florence; and his
sister, Icie Wenger Smucker.
A memorial service was held at University Congregational Church
in Missoula. A later service is planned for Oak Grove Mennonite
Church at Smithville, Ohio.
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Ernest R. Hoover
Ernest R. Hoover, 82, of
Goshen, Ind., died Nov. 13, 2004. He
had been ill with bone cancer since January. He was born June
29, 1922, to Warren D. and Nettie (Martin) Hoover in Elkhart County.
He graduated from Concord High School in 1940. He was baptized
in his youth at Wisler Mennonite Church, where he was a faithful
member.
He married Lizzie L. Martin on Jan. 25, 1948.
He was a dairy farmer. In his later years he enjoyed working in
the woods, cutting firewood and cooking maple syrup.
Survivors include his wife, Lizzie; six daughters, Elaine Martin
and her husband, Henry, Ethel Hoover, and Vera Witmer and her
husband, Dean, all of Goshen, Edna Miller and her husband, David,
and Elsie Martin and her husband, Wayne, of Sanilac County, Michigan,
and Rita Martin and her husband, Ronald, of Nappanee; two sons,
LaVerne and his wife, Virginia, and Marlin and his wife, Berdena,
both of Elkhart; three sisters, Esther J. Schrock of Goshen, Florence
L. Hoover of Elkhart and Carol E. Hoover of Plymouth; 54 grandchildren
and 34 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Loren, on Oct. 24, 1986; a
great-granddaughter, Roselyn Nusbaum; four brothers, infant Adin,
Arthur M., Martin E. and Joseph R. Hoover; and a sister, Martha
May Hoover.
Funeral services were held at Yellow Creek Wisler Mennonite Church.
Burial was in the church cemetery.