Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 18, 1939, issue

Mrs. J. J. Arnst Dies In Spokane Hospital
Mrs. J. J. Arnst of Ritzville passed away Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Lukes
hospital. She had been in the hospital a week but had been operated on six weeks previously.
Funeral arrangements have not been made as yet. Mrs. Arnst was a resident of Adams
county for 40 years.


Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 25, 1939, issue

Hold Last Rites For Mrs. J. Arnst
Funeral services for Mrs. J. J. Arnst, 69, Ritzville pioneer who died last week were
held Saturday at the Philadelphia Congregational church with the Rev. H. Nuetzmann officiating.
Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery.
Mary Christina Arnst nee Winters was born in Straub, Russia, May 9, 1870, and was
married Jan. 28, 1893, to John Jacob Arnst. In 1899 they came to the United States, residing
first in Nebraska. They lived in that state two years, after which they came west to Ritzville
and took up a homestead about 20 miles west of here.
In 1910, they gave up farming and moved to Ritzville.
Besides her widower, she is survived by two sons, John and Geo. both of Ritzville;
four daughters, Mrs. Mary Pauley, Toppenish, Mrs. Katie Kister, Irby; Mrs. Anna Thurman,
Yakima; Mrs. Lydia Werttemberger, Ritzville; a sister and a brother, both living in Fresno,
Calif.

Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 18, 1939, issue

Mrs. J. J. Arnst Dies In Spokane Hospital
Mrs. J. J. Arnst of Ritzville passed away Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Lukes
hospital. She had been in the hospital a week but had been operated on six weeks previously.
Funeral arrangements have not been made as yet. Mrs. Arnst was a resident of Adams
county for 40 years.


Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 25, 1939, issue

Hold Last Rites For Mrs. J. Arnst
Funeral services for Mrs. J. J. Arnst, 69, Ritzville pioneer who died last week were
held Saturday at the Philadelphia Congregational church with the Rev. H. Nuetzmann officiating.
Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery.
Mary Christina Arnst nee Winters was born in Straub, Russia, May 9, 1870, and was
married Jan. 28, 1893, to John Jacob Arnst. In 1899 they came to the United States, residing
first in Nebraska. They lived in that state two years, after which they came west to Ritzville
and took up a homestead about 20 miles west of here.
In 1910, they gave up farming and moved to Ritzville.
Besides her widower, she is survived by two sons, John and Geo. both of Ritzville;
four daughters, Mrs. Mary Pauley, Toppenish, Mrs. Katie Kister, Irby; Mrs. Anna Thurman,
Yakima; Mrs. Lydia Werttemberger, Ritzville; a sister and a brother, both living in Fresno,
Calif.