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Kirchhofer, Rosina Baumgartner (1863-1932)
Christlicher Bundesbote obituary: 1932 Dec 13 p. 14
Birth date: 1863 Jun 17
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1932 Nov 30 p. 1
text of obituary:
Dalton, O., Nov. 26. — Mrs. D. Kirchhofer passed away at 3:30 o'clock this morning after an illness of over two months.
The deceased, Rosa [sic Rosina] Baumgartner Kirchhofer, was born June 17, 1863, on a farm southeast of the present town of Kidron, O. Her parents, John Baumgarners, died while she was quite young and an uncle (a brother of her father) and his wife, Jacob and Elisabeth Baumgartner, having no children of their own, took her and two sisters Caroline and Sarah and a brother, Dan W. Baumgartner, and became foster parents to them.
On Aug. 9, 1896, she was married to Daniel Kirchhofer by Rev. Joel Lehman. Rev. H. P. Krehbiel, then of Canton, Ohio, and now of Newton, Kansas, also delivered a sermon.
Four children were born to them all of whom are living. They are Roy, Stella, and Delvin at home; Dora, a cook in Bluffton College, Bluffton, O.; her husband, two sisters, Elizabeth Basinger, and Miss Sarah, all of this place; and Daniel Baumgartner of Versailles, Mo., R. 1.
Funeral services on Monday, Nov. 28, at 2 p. M. at the Salem church.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1932 Dec 7 p. 4
Mrs. Daniel Kirchhofer, who has been an intense, but patient, sufferer for a number of months, passed quietly away at her house at 3:30 on Saturday morning,Nov. 26.
Mrs. Rosina Baumgartner Kirchhofer, daughter of John and Katherine Baumgartner, was born south of Kidron, on the farm at present owned by Albert A. Nussbaum, on June 17, 1863. With three sisters and a brother, she was early in life bereft of her loving parents and was reared to womanhood in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Baumgartner, who took the four orphans to heart and into their home.
On August 9, 1896, she was united in marriage with Daniel Kirchhofer, which union was blessed with four children, two sons and two daughters. In the year 1892 she was baptized by Rev. Christian Sommer, uniting with the Sonnenberg Mennonite church and in the same year transferred her membership to the Salem Mennonite church, where she remained a loyal and active member to the time of her demise.
She is survived by her loving husband, and children, Roy Delvin and Stella, at home; and Dora of Bluffton; her sisters Miss Sarah Baumgartner and Mrs. Elias Basinger, of this place; and one brother, Daniel Baumgartner, of Versailles, Missouri.
Mrs. Kirchhofer was known to her many friends for her devoted life to God, her devotion to her family, her kind hospitality, her sympathetic interest in all within her reach, and her keen interest in all missionary enterprises. She will be missed in church, home, and community, but our loss is her gain — she is reaping a reward of eternal bliss.
Funeral services took place from the home at 1:30, and from the Salem church at 2:00 o'clock Monday afternoon, interment taking place at the cemetery nearby. Over one hundred persons visited the Kirchhofer home last Sunday, where the mother of the home was lying in state.
The Mennonite obituary: 1933 Jan 5 p. 14
