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Bontrager, Edna Ellen (1919-1953)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1953 Jun 4 p. 4

Birth date: 1919

text of obituary:

ILLNESS FATAL AFTER BIRTH OF TWINS

Goshen, Ind. — Mrs. Edna Ellen Bontrager, 34, wife of Elmer Bontrager, died at the Goshen hospital May 24 of a cerebral hemorrhage after giving birth to twins on Friday night, May 22. Funeral services were held at the Elmer Miller home in the Middlebury community. The family resides on Route 2, Middlebury.

The twins, a boy and a girl, have been named Eldon Ray and Edna May. Surviving are the husband, four other children, and four sisters.