She was born May 9, 1937, in Meade, to Peter L. and Katherine Isaac Classen.
She graduated from Meade Bible Academy in 1955, and from Grace Bible Institute in 1960. She was a member of Cumberland Bible Church, Douglass. She was a homemaker.
On June 11, 1959, she married Alva F. Goossen at Meade.
Other survivors and their families include: two sons, John M. and Sue, Oakville, Ontario, and children, Missy and Josh, and Waldo J. and Lynette, Nairobi, Kenya and children Naomi, Jeremy and Elijah, Eldora and Randy Brock, Derby, and children, Timothy, Cynthia and Stephanie; four sisters, Agnes Schertz, Goshen, Ind., Dora Ehman, Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, Alvera Thiessen, Elbing, Ev Fisher, Wichita; and two brothers, Levi Classen, Liberal, and Clarence Classen, Olathe.
She was preceded in death by five brothers, Henry, Edward, Peter, Jakob and Harold Classen and a sister, Elizabeth Loewen.
Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at Plevna Community Bible Church, with Dr. Alva F. Goossen, and Pastor David E. Green presiding. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Burial will be in Plevna Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Joni and Friends (wheelchairs for handicapped people in third world countries), in care of the mortuary.
She was born May 9, 1937, in Meade, to Peter L. and Katherine Isaac Classen.
She graduated from Meade Bible Academy in 1955, and from Grace Bible Institute in 1960. She was a member of Cumberland Bible Church, Douglass. She was a homemaker.
On June 11, 1959, she married Alva F. Goossen at Meade.
Other survivors and their families include: two sons, John M. and Sue, Oakville, Ontario, and children, Missy and Josh, and Waldo J. and Lynette, Nairobi, Kenya and children Naomi, Jeremy and Elijah, Eldora and Randy Brock, Derby, and children, Timothy, Cynthia and Stephanie; four sisters, Agnes Schertz, Goshen, Ind., Dora Ehman, Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, Alvera Thiessen, Elbing, Ev Fisher, Wichita; and two brothers, Levi Classen, Liberal, and Clarence Classen, Olathe.
She was preceded in death by five brothers, Henry, Edward, Peter, Jakob and Harold Classen and a sister, Elizabeth Loewen.
Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at Plevna Community Bible Church, with Dr. Alva F. Goossen, and Pastor David E. Green presiding. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Burial will be in Plevna Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Joni and Friends (wheelchairs for handicapped people in third world countries), in care of the mortuary.
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