Egli, Ida (1914-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 May 11 p. 9

Birth date: 1914 Dec 6

text of obituary:

IDA EGLI

Ida Egli, 94, of Kalona, Iowa, died April 18, 2009. She was born Dec. 6, 1914, to C.B. and Emma Grimm Egli on a large farm north of Manson.

She came from a family of 13 children that was poor during the depression years, but they always had enough food to eat and clothes to wear. Her father raised and sold horses, and they also had a big herd of milk cows, which she helped to milk before and after school.

In 1942 she went to La Junta, Colo., to do mission work at La Junta Mennonite Hospital. In 1957 she left the hospital and went to work in a doctor’s office in La Junta, where she worked for 25 years. She then worked part time for two years, then retired in November 1983. It was a difficult decision for her to make, but after much prayer she felt led to leave Colorado and come to Kalona, where it was nice to be near family again.

Survivors include nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by 12 siblings: Amon, Joseph, Louie, Emery, Maude Swartzendruber, John, Samuel, Lawrence, Elsie Litwiller, Jesse, Rosette Egli and Stanley.

Services were held at Kalona Mennonite Church. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery in Manson.