An expanded obituary project of MennObits. Includes
additional information of obituaries appearing in
The Mennonite and other newspapers. Source of individual obituaries given with
each record. Project managed by Thelma Martin.
1996
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Beck, Ella
Named Top Resident
At Fairlawn Haven
Ella Beck has been named the resident of the month of
February at Fairlawn haven.
Beck has lived at Fairlawn since December, 1995.
She was born Sept. 12, 1907, in
Beck attended school through the eighth grade.
She worked as a cook at the Archbold school
cafeteria, at Little Eden Camp, and also worked at the
She lived on
Beck traveled as far west as
Beck is a member of
Submitted by: Mona Mann
Fern M. Beck, 56, Archbold, died Thursday morning, Aug.
22, 1996, in the home of her sister, following a brief illness.
Born Dec. 21, 1939, near Archbold, she was a daughter of
Harley and Francis (Klopfenstein) Beck, and lived her lifetime in the
Archbold
area. She owned and operated Fern Beck
Catering in Archbold nearly 20 years.
She previously worked at Jim & Dale's IGA, Archbold, and the
Red
Cross Drug Store, Archbold. She was a
member of the
Surviving are her parents, Harley and Frances Beck,
Archbold; three brothers, Charles Beck, Donald Beck, and her twin Vern
Beck,
all of Archbold; one sister, Mrs. Eugene (Arlene) Zaerr, Archbold.
Services were Sunday, 2:30 p.m., Central Mennonite Church
with Wilmer & Lois Hartman, Charles Gautsche, and Diane Zaerr as
the
officiating pastors. Burial was in
Boll, Viola S. Benner
July 1, 1901 - August 23, 1996
Viola S. Boll, 95, of Old Mill Road, Newmanstown Rl, died of natural causes early Friday morning at home.
She was the wife of Noah S. Boll, who died in 1982.
Born in Hinkletown, she was a daughter of the late W. Henry and Anna Mary Stauffer Benner.
A homemaker, she served with her husband doing pastoral work in Delaware and Illinois.
She was a member of Miners Village Mennonile Church in Cornwall.
Surviving are seven sons: Joseph B. husband of Esther Horning Boll of Lebanon; Roy B., husband of Lois Noll Boll, of Manheim; Luke B., husband of Sara Ann Swartzentruber Boll, of Willow Street; Titus B. husband of Lois Brubaker Boll, of Lititz; Homer B., husband of Shirley Weaver Boll, of Lebanon; Elvin B. wife [husband] of Clarene Ebersole Boll, of Elizabethtown; and Lester B. husband of Dorothy Buch Boll, of Lititz; five daughters: Anna Mary, wife of Melvin M. Kreider.of Lancaster; Rhoda, wife of Robert L. Sensemg, of Lebanon; Ruth, wife of Victor R. Weaver, of Honey Brook; Irene, wife of Richard E. Haller, of Lititz; and Esther, wife of Stanley C. Wine, with whom she lived; a daughter-in-law Helen, wife of Raymond Martin, of Shippensburg; 62 grandchildren; 181 great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren: and a foster brother, Russel Beyer of Manheim.