Former Legislator, Pastor Dies at Age 95.
Freeman, S. D. -- Rev. Paul P. Kleinsasser, 95, retired farmer and a former pastor and state legislator, died at his farm home near Freeman on June 6 after several years of illness.
Born in Russia in 1877, he came to the United States with his parents in 1879. He and his wife, the former Anna Wollman, moved to the present farm north of Freeman in 1905.
Rev. Kleinsasser was ordained to the ministry in the Hutterthal Mennonite Church and served there from 1909 to 1914. He was minister of the Bethany Mennonite church, Freeman, from 1919 to 1922.
He served in the state legislature at Pierre in 1907 and again in 1917, and was a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1919 to 1922.
He was a member of the Bethany Church, where the funeral was conducted June 9 by Rev. Peter G. Hofer and Rev. Levi Koehn.
(MWR 22 Jun 1972 p. 2)
Former Legislator, Pastor Dies at Age 95.
Freeman, S. D. -- Rev. Paul P. Kleinsasser, 95, retired farmer and a former pastor and state legislator, died at his farm home near Freeman on June 6 after several years of illness.
Born in Russia in 1877, he came to the United States with his parents in 1879. He and his wife, the former Anna Wollman, moved to the present farm north of Freeman in 1905.
Rev. Kleinsasser was ordained to the ministry in the Hutterthal Mennonite Church and served there from 1909 to 1914. He was minister of the Bethany Mennonite church, Freeman, from 1919 to 1922.
He served in the state legislature at Pierre in 1907 and again in 1917, and was a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1919 to 1922.
He was a member of the Bethany Church, where the funeral was conducted June 9 by Rev. Peter G. Hofer and Rev. Levi Koehn.
(MWR 22 Jun 1972 p. 2)
Family Members
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Edward Paul Kleinsasser
1901–1982
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Anne Kleinsasser
1904–2001
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Theodore R Kleinsasser
1907–2001
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Dora M Kleinsasser
1910–2003
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Walter A Kleinsasser
1912–2006
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Edna Susanna Kleinsasser Dalke
1913–2003
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Amos R Kleinsasser
1915–2005
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Paul P. Kleinsasser
1917–2013
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Alice V Kleinsasser
1919–1988
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Elizabeth B Kleinsasser
1921–2009
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Jeanne Justina Kleinsasser Tieszen
1928–2008
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