The Rev Joseph Ummel, 46, a missionary in Nigeria, Africa, for the United Missionary Society of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ since 1922, died Wednesday, July 15 (sic), at the mission station at Jebba, whose vice-superintendent he had been for more than six years.
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Correction and addition excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"Just before midnight, July 13, 1943, Rev. Joseph Ummel passed peacefully from time into the presence of the Lord at Mission Hill, Jebbe, Nigeria, West Africa. At 4 p.m. the following day his body was laid to rest in the U.M.S cemetery close by the William Finlay Memorial Church, here to await the glad resurrection morning...
"Rev. Ira W. Sherk, the superintendent, conducted the service in the Church before the burial. The missionaries and two men of the Nigerian Railway were standing on the porch when suddenly there appeared a beautiful rainbow...
"According to Brother Sherk's report, Brother Ummel sent for him on July 8, stating that he had a very high fever, symptoms of malaria. Brother Sherk arrived, and later also Mrs. Finlay to help Mrs. Ummel. They sent for the government doctor sixty miles away who arrived and did all that could be done for the next few days until he passed away near midnight July 13th. Mrs. Ummel was at his bedside until the end."
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News of his death came in a cablegram filed by his widow and delivered Thursday forenoon of last week to his brother, John Ummel, Jr, at the Ummel homestead, northeast of here on the Prairie Street road. It said merely: "Joseph died," and was signed "Mabel," his wife.
Three daughters of Mr Ummel are at the homestead [in the home of Joseph’s brother, John Ummel], left here when Mr and Mrs Ummel returned to Africa in May, 1941, at the end of a 2-year furlough in America. The daughters are Josephine Marie, 14; Ruth Evangeline, 12, and Grace Eleanor, 10.
Other survivors are the mother, Mrs John (Ella Lambert) Ummel; three brothers, the Rev Paul Ummel, who with his wife, is now at home on furlough from the society's station of Zuru, Nigeria, 225 miles north of Jebba; Daniel Ummel of here, and James Ummel, who lives near the homestead; and four sisters, Samuel A Hoke of New Carlisle, Ohio, Mrs Richard Blessing of Nappanee and Mrs Charles Huffman of Elkhart.
Mr Ummel, who was born on Feb. 22, 1897, on the homestead, first went to Nigeria as an evangelistic missionary in July, 1922. While home on a one-year furlough in 1926, he married Mabel Hygema of southwest of here who returned to Jebba with him at the end of the furlough.
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Also excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"On July 29, 1932 Joseph Ummel sailed from New York in a company of three to go to Africa. On his first furlough home he was married to Miss Mabel Hygema..."
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The local relatives were wholly unprepared to hear of Mr Ummel's death. An airmail letter written by his wife the first week of June made no mention of illness.
The Rev Paul Ummel and wife who came home in November, 1940, expect to return to Nigeria as soon as shipping facilities, suspended by the war, are restored sufficiently to make the voyage possible.
Wakarusa Tribune
22 July 1943
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Correction and addition excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"Just before midnight, July 13, 1943, Rev. Joseph Ummel passed peacefully from time into the presence of the Lord at Mission Hill, Jebbe, Nigeria, West Africa. At 4 p.m. the following day his body was laid to rest in the U.M.S cemetery close by the William Finlay Memorial Church, here to await the glad resurrection morning...
"Rev. Ira W. Sherk, the superintendent, conducted the service in the Church before the burial. The missionaries and two men of the Nigerian Railway were standing on the porch when suddenly there appeared a beautiful rainbow...
"According to Brother Sherk's report, Brother Ummel sent for him on July 8, stating that he had a very high fever, symptoms of malaria. Brother Sherk arrived, and later also Mrs. Finlay to help Mrs. Ummel. They sent for the government doctor sixty miles away who arrived and did all that could be done for the next few days until he passed away near midnight July 13th. Mrs. Ummel was at his bedside until the end."
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News of his death came in a cablegram filed by his widow and delivered Thursday forenoon of last week to his brother, John Ummel, Jr, at the Ummel homestead, northeast of here on the Prairie Street road. It said merely: "Joseph died," and was signed "Mabel," his wife.
Three daughters of Mr Ummel are at the homestead [in the home of Joseph’s brother, John Ummel], left here when Mr and Mrs Ummel returned to Africa in May, 1941, at the end of a 2-year furlough in America. The daughters are Josephine Marie, 14; Ruth Evangeline, 12, and Grace Eleanor, 10.
Other survivors are the mother, Mrs John (Ella Lambert) Ummel; three brothers, the Rev Paul Ummel, who with his wife, is now at home on furlough from the society's station of Zuru, Nigeria, 225 miles north of Jebba; Daniel Ummel of here, and James Ummel, who lives near the homestead; and four sisters, Samuel A Hoke of New Carlisle, Ohio, Mrs Richard Blessing of Nappanee and Mrs Charles Huffman of Elkhart.
Mr Ummel, who was born on Feb. 22, 1897, on the homestead, first went to Nigeria as an evangelistic missionary in July, 1922. While home on a one-year furlough in 1926, he married Mabel Hygema of southwest of here who returned to Jebba with him at the end of the furlough.
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Also excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"On July 29, 1932 Joseph Ummel sailed from New York in a company of three to go to Africa. On his first furlough home he was married to Miss Mabel Hygema..."
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The local relatives were wholly unprepared to hear of Mr Ummel's death. An airmail letter written by his wife the first week of June made no mention of illness.
The Rev Paul Ummel and wife who came home in November, 1940, expect to return to Nigeria as soon as shipping facilities, suspended by the war, are restored sufficiently to make the voyage possible.
Wakarusa Tribune
22 July 1943
The Rev Joseph Ummel, 46, a missionary in Nigeria, Africa, for the United Missionary Society of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ since 1922, died Wednesday, July 15 (sic), at the mission station at Jebba, whose vice-superintendent he had been for more than six years.
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Correction and addition excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"Just before midnight, July 13, 1943, Rev. Joseph Ummel passed peacefully from time into the presence of the Lord at Mission Hill, Jebbe, Nigeria, West Africa. At 4 p.m. the following day his body was laid to rest in the U.M.S cemetery close by the William Finlay Memorial Church, here to await the glad resurrection morning...
"Rev. Ira W. Sherk, the superintendent, conducted the service in the Church before the burial. The missionaries and two men of the Nigerian Railway were standing on the porch when suddenly there appeared a beautiful rainbow...
"According to Brother Sherk's report, Brother Ummel sent for him on July 8, stating that he had a very high fever, symptoms of malaria. Brother Sherk arrived, and later also Mrs. Finlay to help Mrs. Ummel. They sent for the government doctor sixty miles away who arrived and did all that could be done for the next few days until he passed away near midnight July 13th. Mrs. Ummel was at his bedside until the end."
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News of his death came in a cablegram filed by his widow and delivered Thursday forenoon of last week to his brother, John Ummel, Jr, at the Ummel homestead, northeast of here on the Prairie Street road. It said merely: "Joseph died," and was signed "Mabel," his wife.
Three daughters of Mr Ummel are at the homestead [in the home of Joseph’s brother, John Ummel], left here when Mr and Mrs Ummel returned to Africa in May, 1941, at the end of a 2-year furlough in America. The daughters are Josephine Marie, 14; Ruth Evangeline, 12, and Grace Eleanor, 10.
Other survivors are the mother, Mrs John (Ella Lambert) Ummel; three brothers, the Rev Paul Ummel, who with his wife, is now at home on furlough from the society's station of Zuru, Nigeria, 225 miles north of Jebba; Daniel Ummel of here, and James Ummel, who lives near the homestead; and four sisters, Samuel A Hoke of New Carlisle, Ohio, Mrs Richard Blessing of Nappanee and Mrs Charles Huffman of Elkhart.
Mr Ummel, who was born on Feb. 22, 1897, on the homestead, first went to Nigeria as an evangelistic missionary in July, 1922. While home on a one-year furlough in 1926, he married Mabel Hygema of southwest of here who returned to Jebba with him at the end of the furlough.
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Also excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"On July 29, 1932 Joseph Ummel sailed from New York in a company of three to go to Africa. On his first furlough home he was married to Miss Mabel Hygema..."
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The local relatives were wholly unprepared to hear of Mr Ummel's death. An airmail letter written by his wife the first week of June made no mention of illness.
The Rev Paul Ummel and wife who came home in November, 1940, expect to return to Nigeria as soon as shipping facilities, suspended by the war, are restored sufficiently to make the voyage possible.
Wakarusa Tribune
22 July 1943
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Correction and addition excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"Just before midnight, July 13, 1943, Rev. Joseph Ummel passed peacefully from time into the presence of the Lord at Mission Hill, Jebbe, Nigeria, West Africa. At 4 p.m. the following day his body was laid to rest in the U.M.S cemetery close by the William Finlay Memorial Church, here to await the glad resurrection morning...
"Rev. Ira W. Sherk, the superintendent, conducted the service in the Church before the burial. The missionaries and two men of the Nigerian Railway were standing on the porch when suddenly there appeared a beautiful rainbow...
"According to Brother Sherk's report, Brother Ummel sent for him on July 8, stating that he had a very high fever, symptoms of malaria. Brother Sherk arrived, and later also Mrs. Finlay to help Mrs. Ummel. They sent for the government doctor sixty miles away who arrived and did all that could be done for the next few days until he passed away near midnight July 13th. Mrs. Ummel was at his bedside until the end."
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News of his death came in a cablegram filed by his widow and delivered Thursday forenoon of last week to his brother, John Ummel, Jr, at the Ummel homestead, northeast of here on the Prairie Street road. It said merely: "Joseph died," and was signed "Mabel," his wife.
Three daughters of Mr Ummel are at the homestead [in the home of Joseph’s brother, John Ummel], left here when Mr and Mrs Ummel returned to Africa in May, 1941, at the end of a 2-year furlough in America. The daughters are Josephine Marie, 14; Ruth Evangeline, 12, and Grace Eleanor, 10.
Other survivors are the mother, Mrs John (Ella Lambert) Ummel; three brothers, the Rev Paul Ummel, who with his wife, is now at home on furlough from the society's station of Zuru, Nigeria, 225 miles north of Jebba; Daniel Ummel of here, and James Ummel, who lives near the homestead; and four sisters, Samuel A Hoke of New Carlisle, Ohio, Mrs Richard Blessing of Nappanee and Mrs Charles Huffman of Elkhart.
Mr Ummel, who was born on Feb. 22, 1897, on the homestead, first went to Nigeria as an evangelistic missionary in July, 1922. While home on a one-year furlough in 1926, he married Mabel Hygema of southwest of here who returned to Jebba with him at the end of the furlough.
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Also excerpted from the 1943 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Yearbook:
"On July 29, 1932 Joseph Ummel sailed from New York in a company of three to go to Africa. On his first furlough home he was married to Miss Mabel Hygema..."
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The local relatives were wholly unprepared to hear of Mr Ummel's death. An airmail letter written by his wife the first week of June made no mention of illness.
The Rev Paul Ummel and wife who came home in November, 1940, expect to return to Nigeria as soon as shipping facilities, suspended by the war, are restored sufficiently to make the voyage possible.
Wakarusa Tribune
22 July 1943
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