Egli, E. La Vera Miller (1916-1977)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1977 Feb 24 p. 11

Birth date: 1916 Mar 4

text of obituary:

MRS. E. LA VERA EGLI

E. LaVera Egli of Gilmore City, Ia., daughter of Sam D. and Ella M. Miller, was born on Mar. 4, 1916, at Jet, Okla., and died Feb. 9, 1977, at Rochester, Minn.

She received her high school education at Hesston, Kan. and two years of college at Hesston College. A Registered Nurse, she was a 1938 graduate of the La Junta (Colo.) School of Nursing and received a B. A. degree at Goshen College (Ind.)

She taught nursing procedures at La Junta for one year, then worked in several hospitals in Oregon for a time. For the past three years she had been employed at the Good Samaritan Nursing Center at Manson, Ia. near her home.

She was past president of the Iowa-Nebraska Women’s Missionary Service Commission, was a member of the Manson, Ia. Library Board, and held various offices in the Manson Mennonite Church, where she was a member.

She leaves her husband, Jesse O. Egli of Gilmore City, Ia.; four so; ns, Steven E. and wife Caroline of Des Moines, Ia., Grant O. of Amarillo, Tex., Mark L. of Kalona, Ia., and Sam D. of the home; a daughter, Debra E., a student at Hesston College; her mother, Mrs. Ella M. Miller, and a brother, Dr. W. La Vern Miller and wife Bertha, all of Nampa, Ida.; and a foster sister, Mrs. Geneva Jenkins of Longdale, Okla.

Services were held Feb. 13, 1977 at the Manson Mennonite Church, in charge of Kenneth Good, assisted by two of her former pastors, Walter Smeltzer of manson and James Detweiler of Metamora, Ill. Burial was at Rosehill Cemetery, Manson.