Daughter of Ulrich Hirschler; born in Germany.
Became a deaconess (nurse) in the Mennonite Hospital, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Later in life, she married a Mr. Ruth, and went to live in California, where he passed away. There were no children.
Tante Elisa continued living in Reedley, California for many years, and was active in the Mennonite church there. Later, she returned to Beatrice and lived on the 2nd floor of her sister-in-law's (Tante Anna Andreas') house on Elk Street.
While in California, Tante Elisa sent many boxes of grapefruit and oranges to her father Ulrich, and later, her sister Magdalene, in Beatrice. They often kept them cool in the guest bedroom of the big limestone house that Magdalene's father-in-law, Johann Andreas, had built.
Very interested in health foods--made grapefruit tea out of the rinds to try to cure ailments; strongly recommended taking garlic as an antibiotic (but not to cook with garlic). She made her own raisins in California, and also took sun-baths for health. If any clothing was to be worn while sunbathing, it should be blue to allow the healing power of the rays go through.
After World War II, she cared for poor German girls in Germany, sending care packages, and they sent her pictures in their thank-you letters, showing dresses they had made out of airplane parachute silk they had picked out of the fields.
She was a tiny little woman, very opinionated, but friendly and interested in people. As a toddler, she had fallen into a cesspool and very nearly drowned--her family felt that was why she never attained full stature. She never referred to the incident, but that went down in family lore.
She did believe in ghosts--she told a story of a great-uncle of hers who stayed overnight in a crowded inn deep in the Black Forest of Germany. The innkeeper warned that a big black hound would come in, even though it was on the 2nd floor. The uncle was a Mennonite preacher, and when the dog appeared, he asked it, "Would't you be happier as an angel in Glory?" The dog leaped out of the window, and the room was no longer haunted anymore.
At the church, just before her funeral, the pastor at the Beatrice Mennonite church reminisced to the family that although he and Tante Elisa didn't always agree, he always knew she prayed for him and for the church, and he would miss her.
Funeral Leaflet
In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ruth
Date of Birth June 19, 1885 Germany; Date of Death February 26, 1969 Beatrice, Nebraska
Time & Place of Memorial Service 3:00 P.M. Sunday, March 2, 1969 Beatrice Mennonite Church. Clergyman Rev. Norman Bergen. Duet: Mrs. Norman Bergen, Mrs. Harold Buller “Wo Findet Die Seele Die Heimat, Die Ruh”; “Take Thou My Hand, O Father”. Congregational Hymn No. 453 “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”. Organist: Mrs. Ella Wiebe
Place of Interment Mennonite Cemetery, Beatrice, Nebraska
A memorial has been established to the General Conference Missions with Donald A Claassen & Frank Thimm, Jr. in charge.
Casket Bearers: Edward Andreas, Melvin Boehr, John Andreas, Willard Schowalter, John Hirschler, Floyd Osborn
Arrangements by Harman Mortuary, Beatrice, Nebraska
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Funeral leaflet courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska; Note: translation of song: "Where the soul finds the Home, the Rest"
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Became a deaconess (nurse) in the Mennonite Hospital, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Later in life, she married a Mr. Ruth, and went to live in California, where he passed away. There were no children.
Tante Elisa continued living in Reedley, California for many years, and was active in the Mennonite church there. Later, she returned to Beatrice and lived on the 2nd floor of her sister-in-law's (Tante Anna Andreas') house on Elk Street.
While in California, Tante Elisa sent many boxes of grapefruit and oranges to her father Ulrich, and later, her sister Magdalene, in Beatrice. They often kept them cool in the guest bedroom of the big limestone house that Magdalene's father-in-law, Johann Andreas, had built.
Very interested in health foods--made grapefruit tea out of the rinds to try to cure ailments; strongly recommended taking garlic as an antibiotic (but not to cook with garlic). She made her own raisins in California, and also took sun-baths for health. If any clothing was to be worn while sunbathing, it should be blue to allow the healing power of the rays go through.
After World War II, she cared for poor German girls in Germany, sending care packages, and they sent her pictures in their thank-you letters, showing dresses they had made out of airplane parachute silk they had picked out of the fields.
She was a tiny little woman, very opinionated, but friendly and interested in people. As a toddler, she had fallen into a cesspool and very nearly drowned--her family felt that was why she never attained full stature. She never referred to the incident, but that went down in family lore.
She did believe in ghosts--she told a story of a great-uncle of hers who stayed overnight in a crowded inn deep in the Black Forest of Germany. The innkeeper warned that a big black hound would come in, even though it was on the 2nd floor. The uncle was a Mennonite preacher, and when the dog appeared, he asked it, "Would't you be happier as an angel in Glory?" The dog leaped out of the window, and the room was no longer haunted anymore.
At the church, just before her funeral, the pastor at the Beatrice Mennonite church reminisced to the family that although he and Tante Elisa didn't always agree, he always knew she prayed for him and for the church, and he would miss her.
Funeral Leaflet
In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ruth
Date of Birth June 19, 1885 Germany; Date of Death February 26, 1969 Beatrice, Nebraska
Time & Place of Memorial Service 3:00 P.M. Sunday, March 2, 1969 Beatrice Mennonite Church. Clergyman Rev. Norman Bergen. Duet: Mrs. Norman Bergen, Mrs. Harold Buller “Wo Findet Die Seele Die Heimat, Die Ruh”; “Take Thou My Hand, O Father”. Congregational Hymn No. 453 “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”. Organist: Mrs. Ella Wiebe
Place of Interment Mennonite Cemetery, Beatrice, Nebraska
A memorial has been established to the General Conference Missions with Donald A Claassen & Frank Thimm, Jr. in charge.
Casket Bearers: Edward Andreas, Melvin Boehr, John Andreas, Willard Schowalter, John Hirschler, Floyd Osborn
Arrangements by Harman Mortuary, Beatrice, Nebraska
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Funeral leaflet courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska; Note: translation of song: "Where the soul finds the Home, the Rest"
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Daughter of Ulrich Hirschler; born in Germany.
Became a deaconess (nurse) in the Mennonite Hospital, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Later in life, she married a Mr. Ruth, and went to live in California, where he passed away. There were no children.
Tante Elisa continued living in Reedley, California for many years, and was active in the Mennonite church there. Later, she returned to Beatrice and lived on the 2nd floor of her sister-in-law's (Tante Anna Andreas') house on Elk Street.
While in California, Tante Elisa sent many boxes of grapefruit and oranges to her father Ulrich, and later, her sister Magdalene, in Beatrice. They often kept them cool in the guest bedroom of the big limestone house that Magdalene's father-in-law, Johann Andreas, had built.
Very interested in health foods--made grapefruit tea out of the rinds to try to cure ailments; strongly recommended taking garlic as an antibiotic (but not to cook with garlic). She made her own raisins in California, and also took sun-baths for health. If any clothing was to be worn while sunbathing, it should be blue to allow the healing power of the rays go through.
After World War II, she cared for poor German girls in Germany, sending care packages, and they sent her pictures in their thank-you letters, showing dresses they had made out of airplane parachute silk they had picked out of the fields.
She was a tiny little woman, very opinionated, but friendly and interested in people. As a toddler, she had fallen into a cesspool and very nearly drowned--her family felt that was why she never attained full stature. She never referred to the incident, but that went down in family lore.
She did believe in ghosts--she told a story of a great-uncle of hers who stayed overnight in a crowded inn deep in the Black Forest of Germany. The innkeeper warned that a big black hound would come in, even though it was on the 2nd floor. The uncle was a Mennonite preacher, and when the dog appeared, he asked it, "Would't you be happier as an angel in Glory?" The dog leaped out of the window, and the room was no longer haunted anymore.
At the church, just before her funeral, the pastor at the Beatrice Mennonite church reminisced to the family that although he and Tante Elisa didn't always agree, he always knew she prayed for him and for the church, and he would miss her.
Funeral Leaflet
In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ruth
Date of Birth June 19, 1885 Germany; Date of Death February 26, 1969 Beatrice, Nebraska
Time & Place of Memorial Service 3:00 P.M. Sunday, March 2, 1969 Beatrice Mennonite Church. Clergyman Rev. Norman Bergen. Duet: Mrs. Norman Bergen, Mrs. Harold Buller “Wo Findet Die Seele Die Heimat, Die Ruh”; “Take Thou My Hand, O Father”. Congregational Hymn No. 453 “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”. Organist: Mrs. Ella Wiebe
Place of Interment Mennonite Cemetery, Beatrice, Nebraska
A memorial has been established to the General Conference Missions with Donald A Claassen & Frank Thimm, Jr. in charge.
Casket Bearers: Edward Andreas, Melvin Boehr, John Andreas, Willard Schowalter, John Hirschler, Floyd Osborn
Arrangements by Harman Mortuary, Beatrice, Nebraska
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Funeral leaflet courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska; Note: translation of song: "Where the soul finds the Home, the Rest"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Became a deaconess (nurse) in the Mennonite Hospital, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Later in life, she married a Mr. Ruth, and went to live in California, where he passed away. There were no children.
Tante Elisa continued living in Reedley, California for many years, and was active in the Mennonite church there. Later, she returned to Beatrice and lived on the 2nd floor of her sister-in-law's (Tante Anna Andreas') house on Elk Street.
While in California, Tante Elisa sent many boxes of grapefruit and oranges to her father Ulrich, and later, her sister Magdalene, in Beatrice. They often kept them cool in the guest bedroom of the big limestone house that Magdalene's father-in-law, Johann Andreas, had built.
Very interested in health foods--made grapefruit tea out of the rinds to try to cure ailments; strongly recommended taking garlic as an antibiotic (but not to cook with garlic). She made her own raisins in California, and also took sun-baths for health. If any clothing was to be worn while sunbathing, it should be blue to allow the healing power of the rays go through.
After World War II, she cared for poor German girls in Germany, sending care packages, and they sent her pictures in their thank-you letters, showing dresses they had made out of airplane parachute silk they had picked out of the fields.
She was a tiny little woman, very opinionated, but friendly and interested in people. As a toddler, she had fallen into a cesspool and very nearly drowned--her family felt that was why she never attained full stature. She never referred to the incident, but that went down in family lore.
She did believe in ghosts--she told a story of a great-uncle of hers who stayed overnight in a crowded inn deep in the Black Forest of Germany. The innkeeper warned that a big black hound would come in, even though it was on the 2nd floor. The uncle was a Mennonite preacher, and when the dog appeared, he asked it, "Would't you be happier as an angel in Glory?" The dog leaped out of the window, and the room was no longer haunted anymore.
At the church, just before her funeral, the pastor at the Beatrice Mennonite church reminisced to the family that although he and Tante Elisa didn't always agree, he always knew she prayed for him and for the church, and he would miss her.
Funeral Leaflet
In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ruth
Date of Birth June 19, 1885 Germany; Date of Death February 26, 1969 Beatrice, Nebraska
Time & Place of Memorial Service 3:00 P.M. Sunday, March 2, 1969 Beatrice Mennonite Church. Clergyman Rev. Norman Bergen. Duet: Mrs. Norman Bergen, Mrs. Harold Buller “Wo Findet Die Seele Die Heimat, Die Ruh”; “Take Thou My Hand, O Father”. Congregational Hymn No. 453 “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”. Organist: Mrs. Ella Wiebe
Place of Interment Mennonite Cemetery, Beatrice, Nebraska
A memorial has been established to the General Conference Missions with Donald A Claassen & Frank Thimm, Jr. in charge.
Casket Bearers: Edward Andreas, Melvin Boehr, John Andreas, Willard Schowalter, John Hirschler, Floyd Osborn
Arrangements by Harman Mortuary, Beatrice, Nebraska
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Funeral leaflet courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska; Note: translation of song: "Where the soul finds the Home, the Rest"
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