Claassen, Marie M. Jantzen (1906-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Jan 16 p. 11

Birth date: 1906 Nov. 6

text of obituary:

MARIE M. CLAASSEN

Marie M. Claassen, 99, of Salina, Kan., and formerly of Beatrice, Neb., died at Holiday Resort Adult Care and Rehabilitation Center on Jan. 4, 2006. She was born Nov. 6, 1906, to Cornelius and Anna Ensz Jantzen at Plymouth, Neb.

She attended country school, church school and then Hesston Academy for two years. She married John Claassen on April 27, 1933, at First Mennonite Church of rural Beatrice.

They lived and farmed in Gage County, Neb. She was a member of First Mennonite Church, where she was a member of the women’s mission society and had taught Sunday school and vacation Bible school. She was a member of the Mennonite Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed reading.

Survivors include three daughters, Doris Locke and her husband, Larry, of Bryan, Texas, Ellen Berger and her husband, Jim, of Pittsburg, and Judith Goertzen and her husband, Larry, of Salina; a brother, Ernest H. Jantzen and his wife, Anna, of Plymouth, Neb.; a brother-in-law, Carl Rice of Dexter, Mo.; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, on Oct. 27, 1971; and by seven sisters.

Funeral services were held at First Mennonite Church of rural Beatrice. Burial was in the First Mennonite Cemetery of rural Beatrice.