Page, Alice Thut (1872-1951)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1951 Oct 4 p. 1

Birth date: 1872 Feb

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SERVICES HELD AT GOSHEN FOR PIONEER MISSIONARY TO INDIA

Goshen. Ind. — Funeral services were held at the Eighth Street Mennonite church here Sept. 25 for Mrs. Alice T. Page, 79, who passed away at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Karl E. Stoll, Pekin, Ill. on Sept. 22.

Mrs. Page and husband, the late Dr. W. B. Page, were among the first missionaries sent to India by the (Old) Mennonite Church and helped to found the station at Dhamtari. However, sickness forced them to leave the field during their fist [sic] term. Dr. Page was a practicing physician in Goshen for a number of years before his death.

Survivors, in addition to Mrs. Stoll, are a son Ralph of Gainesville, Fla.; four grandchildren and one great grandchild; two brothers, Dr. B. F. Thut of Elida, Ohio and Rev. A. B. Thut of Storm Lake, Iowa; and two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Stalter of Northville, Mich., and Mrs. E. J. Zook of Goshen.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1951 Oct 11 p. 9

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MRS. ALICE PAGE

Alice T. Page, 79, widow of Dr. W. B. Page slipped away to her heavenly home Saturday, September 22, after a lingering illness of two years, at Pekin, Illinois where she made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Karl E. (Marion) Stoll, for the past six years, going there after the death of her husband June 14, 1945.

Mrs. Page was born at Bluffton, Ohio in February 1872, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Thut. She married Dr. Page July 31, 1895.

In March 1899 Dr. and Mrs. Page answered the call to missionary service in India and together with Bishop J. A. Ressler, in November 1899, arrived at Dhamtari, C. P. India where they began the work of the American Mennonite Mission at that place. Dr. and Mrs. Page ministered to the hundreds of famine sufferers of that region in the severe famine of 1900 and were able to save many lives. They suffered the hardships of opening new work in a new field besides the struggle with famine and four months of a cholera epidemic. At the end of that time Dr. Page became so ill that he and his family had to return home. Here they visited many churches telling about the needs of India and getting support for famine orphans.

Settling down in Middlebury and later in Goshen, Dr. Page practiced medicine until the time of his death, laboring faithfully in the church at home. They were charter members of the Eighth Street church in Goshen and pillars in it.

Mrs. Page was the mother of five children, only two of whom grew to maturity. Surviving, besides the daughter, are a son Ralph E. Page of Gainsville [sic Gainesville], Florida, four grandchildren, one great grandchild, two brothers, Dr. B. F. Thut of Elida, Ohio, and Rev. A. B. Thut of Storm Lake, Iowa, and two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Stalter of Northville, Mich., and Mrs. E. J. Zook of Goshen.

Funeral services were held at the Eighth Street Church, Goshen, September 25 with the Rev. Robert Hartzler officiating and burial was in Forest Grove cemetery.