Enns, Isaac P. (1877-1950)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 Jun 29 p. 4

Birth date: 1877 Sep 27

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— — Mr. and Mrs. Dan G. Unger went to La Junta, Colo., to attend funeral services for Isaac P. Enns, brother-in-law of Mr. Unger who was killed in an automobile accident at Dinuba, Calif. on June 20. The body was to be returned to LaJunta, where he formerly resided, for burial. He was also a former resident of Hillsboro, and was 71 years of age.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 13 Jul 1950 p. 5

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Aged Man Dies in Highway Crash

Reedley, Calif. — Funeral services took place at the First Mennonite church here June 23 for Isaac P. Enns, 72, janitor and gardener at the Reedley hospital who was fatally injured in a highway accident June 20. He passed away the following day.

Mr. Enns and daughter Leona were returning to their home when their car and a truck sideswiped in a cloud of dust from a tractor in a nearby vineyard. Leona suffered minor injuries.

The body of Mr. Enns was sent to LaJunta, Colo., for burial.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 Jul 20 p. 6

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ISAAC P. ENNS

Isaac P. Enns, son of the late Peter and Marie (Klaasen) Enns, was born September 27, 1877, at Kleefeld, Ukraine, in Russia; passed away June 21, 1950, at the Reedley hospital, Reedley, California, aged 72 years, eight months, 25 days. Death came as the result of injuries received in a car accident the day before when he was returning home from work. He received a hip fracture and internal injuries. Several hours after he was taken to the hospital he went into secondary shock and after lingering almost a day, quietly slipped out of this world or pain and sorrows.

In early manhood he decided to take a trip around the world. When his ship stopped at New York he decided to spend some time touring the U S and started west, stopping to work at various places. May 10, 1908 he married Katherine Unger of Hillsboro, Kansas, so never finished his planned trip but settled on a farm near La Junta, Colorado, where they spent the next 32 years. In 1940 because of failing health they left the farm and moved to Hillsboro, Kansas and five years later to Dinuba, California, where he was employed as maintenance man at the Reedley hospital.

He was converted and joined the Mennonite church while in Russia. He loved to study the Bible and was especially well versed in Old Testament History.

He leaves to mourn his sudden passing his wife, four sons, three daughters, and fifteen grandchildren: Daniel H. and family, Sacramento, Calif.: Verna L. (Mrs. Willard Guengerich) and family, La Junta, Colorado; Karl F. and family, LaJunta; Elmer A. and family, Goessel, Kansas; Paul J. and family, La Junta; Kathryn (Mrs. Rudolf N. Bartel) and family, Denver, Colo.; and Leona and her husband, Albert Schulz, Dinuba, Calif. ; and many other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his daughter Ida Pearl, a son Elvin Loren, and an infant grandson, and as far as he knew all his immediate family in the old country

Memorial services were held at the First Mennonite church of Reedley, where he was a member, on June 23. The body was then taken to LaJunta, Colorado for services at the East Holbrook church and burial in the ajoining [sic] cemetery, on June 27, 1950.