Hartzler, Martha Jones (1880-1950)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 Jan 26 p. 3

Birth date: 1880 Jan 31

text of obituary:

MARTHA HARTZLER

Mrs. Martha Jones Harzler died Jan. 5, 1950, at her home in Goshen, Ind. after a short illness. She had not been in strong health for a number of years, and her passing was caused by complications of a heart ailment and an attack of the flu.

Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Jan. 8, in the Eighth Street Mennonite church of Goshen, and interment was in the Maple Grove cemetery near Topeka, Ind.

She was born in LaGrange community, Indiana, near the Forks community on Jan. 31, 1880, the daughrter of Abraham and Susan (Yoder) Jones. She was reared on a farm about four miles north of Topeka, Ind. and educated in the neighboring rural schools. She graduated from the Topeka high school in 1899, one of a class of three graduates. She attended Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and taught three years in the grad schools near her home.

On June 30, 1903, she married Harry Harzler. The family lived in Topeka for ten years and the remainder of her life in the vicinity of Goshen and the city of Goshen, except for two years in Napanee, Ind.

Martha was a faithful church member, having joined the old Maple Grove Mennonite church of Topeka, when she was a young woman. at the time of her death she had been a member of the Eighth Street Mennonite church of Goshen for about 27 years and had been as active as her strength would permit in the affairs of the church. She was an active charter member of the Phalo Club, a literary group of Goshen.

She is survived by her husband, Harry, and her children, Malcolm of Goshen, Merle of Franklin, Ohio, and Margaret of Goshen; two grandchildren, two great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Jesse Mast of Elkhart, Ind., Bernice of Denver, Colo. and one brother, Clarence of Goshen.