WIENS
Katherine Wiens, beloved wife of the late Rev. Abraham F. Wiens, dear mother of Mrs. Catherine Neufeld, Mrs. Elizabeth Thiessen of India, Mrs. Mary Toews of Africa, Mrs. Martha Ewert of Mountain Lake, Minn., Mrs. Helene Dick of Bloomfield, Mont., Sarah Mae and Esther, grandmother of twenty-one grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Resting at and services Saturday, 2 p.m., in the Mennonite Bible Mission, 4221 S. Rockwell street. Interment Fairmont.
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Thanks to the original creator for the above obituary.
I'm not certain if Katherine was born in Russia, en route to the U.S., or in Nebraska, where the family first settled after emigrating. They were among a wave of German Mennonites emigrating from the Ukraine, Russia to the midwest at that time. The family emigrated the year of her birth. Since she was born late in the year, in the winter, she was likely born in Nebraska.
When her eldest daughter Catherine was a year old, she and her husband endured the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. They were living among a settlement of Mennonites in a farming area near Richmond, TX. Her mother died as a result of injuries from the storm.
Around 1906 she and her family moved to Chicago, where her husband started a Mennonite mission there. She served as a help-meet throughout the many years of his ministry.
WIENS
Katherine Wiens, beloved wife of the late Rev. Abraham F. Wiens, dear mother of Mrs. Catherine Neufeld, Mrs. Elizabeth Thiessen of India, Mrs. Mary Toews of Africa, Mrs. Martha Ewert of Mountain Lake, Minn., Mrs. Helene Dick of Bloomfield, Mont., Sarah Mae and Esther, grandmother of twenty-one grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Resting at and services Saturday, 2 p.m., in the Mennonite Bible Mission, 4221 S. Rockwell street. Interment Fairmont.
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Thanks to the original creator for the above obituary.
I'm not certain if Katherine was born in Russia, en route to the U.S., or in Nebraska, where the family first settled after emigrating. They were among a wave of German Mennonites emigrating from the Ukraine, Russia to the midwest at that time. The family emigrated the year of her birth. Since she was born late in the year, in the winter, she was likely born in Nebraska.
When her eldest daughter Catherine was a year old, she and her husband endured the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. They were living among a settlement of Mennonites in a farming area near Richmond, TX. Her mother died as a result of injuries from the storm.
Around 1906 she and her family moved to Chicago, where her husband started a Mennonite mission there. She served as a help-meet throughout the many years of his ministry.
Gravesite Details
This old photo is from the contributor's collection, taken probably late 1937.
Family Members
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Helena O "Lena" Kroeker Fast
1870–1966
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Johan "John" Kroeker
1874–1878
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Maria F "Marie" Kroeker Friesen
1877–1937
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Bernhard O Kroeker
1880–1948
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Sarah "Mama Ngananga Buka" Kroeker Andersson
1882–1969
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Anna Ott Kroeker Friesen
1883–1962
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Henry Ott Kroeker
1885–1958
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Elizabeth Kroeker
1885–1885
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Justine Kroeker
1890–1897
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Cornelius Kroeker
1890–1890
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