Friesen, Sarah Penner (1888-1967)

Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1967 May 05 p. 17

Birth date: 1888 Aug 18

text of obituary:

SARAH FRIESEN

(Mrs.) Sarah Friesen passed away on March 23, at City Hospital in Saskatoon, Sask. Funeral services were held in the Central Mennonite Brethren Church on March 27, with the Rev. H. H. Epp officiating.

Mrs. Friesen was born August 18, 1888, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Penner of Hampton, Nebraska, and together with her parents came to live at Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. She accepted the Lord as her Saviour at the age of 16 and was baptized in 1904 and received into the Mennonite Brethren Church at Dalmeny.

On September 3, 1905 she was united in marriage to Herman W. Friesen who predeceased her on July 27, 1957. Also preceding her in death was an infant son, Daniel Paul, February 1923, and a daughter Bertha, Mrs. John Harder, in December, 1936. The Thiessens lived in the Hepburn area till 1918, lived in the town of Hepburn till 1944 and then settled in Saskatoon. Mrs. Thiessen was active in the Women's Auxiliary of her church and retained a strong faith in spite of much illness and medical care. She reached the age of 78 years.

She is survived by four daughters: Alice (Mrs. Arthur T. Goossen), St. Catharines, Ont., Helen (Mrs. John G. Thiessen), Borden, Sask., Elizabeth, (Mrs. Sam Willems), Waldheim, Sask., Sadie (Mrs. Sam Epp), Abbotsford, B.C.; five sons; Harley, Jack and Walter of Saskatoon, John of Fresno, Calif., and Clarence of Abbotsford, B.C.; 31 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Peters, Hepburn, Sask., and Mrs. Elizabeth Wall of Hague, Saskatchewan.