Mullet, Mabel Esther King (1912-1956)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 Aug 2 p. 8

Birth date: 1912 Mar 30

text of obituary:

ESTHER KING MULLET

Mabel Esther Mullet was born March 30, 1912, at Peabody, Kan. to L. Oliver and Anna (Erb) King, and went home to meet her Lord May 28, 1956, aged 44 years, one moth and 28 days. Death came at Northern Pacific Hospital, Glendive, Mont. She spent her girlhood around the Hesston and Yoder communities in Kansas.

On March 4, 1934, she was married to Frank J. Mullet of Bloomfield, Mont. She lived in the Red Top community 14 years and then moved near Glendive, Mont. where they lived the last seven years.

She is survived by her husband and seven children, Elizabeth Ann, Phyllis Irene, Sanford, John Franklin, Lela Faye, Philip Royce and Ronald Luke, all of the home; her mother, Anna King of Hutchinson, Kan.; five brothers, Sanford and Allen of Hutchinson, Donald of Pigeon, Mich., Kenneth of Hesston, Kan., and Clifford of Goshen, Ind.; one sister, Lila Mae, Mrs. Samuel Janzen of Glenwood Springs, Colo. and a host of relatives and friends. Her father preceded her in death in 1940.

At the age of nine she confessed her Lord as Savior and united with the Mennonite church in which she served faithfully throughout her life, giving unselfishly of herself, especially in sewing circle work. Her faithful Christian life and testimony were rewarded by seeing her children, as they grew up, express saving faith in Christ.

She suffered much the last five years of her life with a bad heart condition from which developed other complications. This limited her activities in the home but her counsel and guidance will be missed in the home and church. She prayed much for God's will to be done in her life and longed to be healed for the sake of her family, but was willing and ready to meet her Lord if it was his will.

Funeral services were held May 31 at the Methodist church in Glendive, Mont. with Gerald Hoffer and Elmer Bontrager officiating. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens near Glendive.