Advertisement

Rev Alva Swartzendruber

Advertisement

Rev Alva Swartzendruber

Birth
Death
10 Oct 1983 (aged 89)
Burial
Hydro, Blaine County, Oklahoma, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.6386592, Longitude: -98.631462
Memorial ID
View Source
Swartzendruber, Alva, son of Valentine and Mary Anne (Rhodes) Swartzendruber, was born in Johnson Co. Iowa, Apr. 1, 1894; died in Pleasant View Home, Kalona, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1983; aged 89 y. On Dec. 25, 1916, he was married to Mattie Bender, who died in 1968. Surviving are one daughter (Ada Mae Yoder), one son (Glenn G.), 7 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 3 brothers (Fred, Valentine, and Jacob), and 3 sisters (Barbara Swartzendruber, Mary Jane Swartzendruber, and Katie Ann-Mrs. Richard Birky). He was preceded in death by an infant daughter (Lela Fern). He was ordained to the ministry in 1919 and as bishop in 1922. He served the Pleasant View Mennonite Church in Hydro, Okla., and several others in the South Central Conference. Funeral services were held at Wellman, Iowa, Oct. 12, in charge of Merv Birky and Emery Hochstetler and at the Pleasant View Mennonite Church in Hydro on Oct. 14, in charge of Chester Slagell, James Detweiler, and Ron Phelps; interment in the Pleasant View Cemetery.
(Mennobits, Who's Who among the Mennonites, 1943)
Swartzendruber, Alva, son of Valentine and Mary Anne (Rhodes) Swartzendruber, was born in Johnson Co. Iowa, Apr. 1, 1894; died in Pleasant View Home, Kalona, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1983; aged 89 y. On Dec. 25, 1916, he was married to Mattie Bender, who died in 1968. Surviving are one daughter (Ada Mae Yoder), one son (Glenn G.), 7 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 3 brothers (Fred, Valentine, and Jacob), and 3 sisters (Barbara Swartzendruber, Mary Jane Swartzendruber, and Katie Ann-Mrs. Richard Birky). He was preceded in death by an infant daughter (Lela Fern). He was ordained to the ministry in 1919 and as bishop in 1922. He served the Pleasant View Mennonite Church in Hydro, Okla., and several others in the South Central Conference. Funeral services were held at Wellman, Iowa, Oct. 12, in charge of Merv Birky and Emery Hochstetler and at the Pleasant View Mennonite Church in Hydro on Oct. 14, in charge of Chester Slagell, James Detweiler, and Ron Phelps; interment in the Pleasant View Cemetery.
(Mennobits, Who's Who among the Mennonites, 1943)


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement