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Penner, Henry (1854-1928)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1928 Aug 1 p. 3
Birth date: 1854 Oct 16
text of obituary:
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services of Mr. Henry Penner were conducted in the M. B. church at Corn Sunday afternoon. Mr. Penner, whose home has been in Fairview for a number of years, as brought to Gaede's sanitarium May 18th, suffering with internal complications. Although he got some relief he did not improve and was soon taken to the home of his children, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Engel here in Corn, where he remained a short time and was then moved to the A. B. Schmidt home at Bessie where he remained to his end which came Thursday. At one time Mr. Penner and his family lived in this community and later in the Caddo and he is well known here and leaves many friends. Funeral services were conducted by Fred Fruechting of Fairview and Rev. J. F. Duerksen of Corn in the German language and Rev. J. J. Wiebe in the American language. Intement was made at the M. B. cemetery. — Washita Co. Enterprise.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1928 Aug 8 p. 2
text of obituary:
Henry Penner was born October 16, 1854, at Elisabethal, Russia. In 1874, with parents, he immigrated to America and settled at Hampton, Nebr. On January 18, 1877, he was united in holy wedlock to Anna Abrahams and to this union eleven children were born of which three sons and five daughters are still living. In 1879 he was converted to Christ and in the same year, on the third of August, was baptized by Elder John Regier and taken into the M. B. church to which faith he remained true unto his end. From Nebraska they soon moved to Major county Oklahoma, then to Washita county and then later to Caddo county, where on April 29, 1912, his wife was taken from his side by death. On March 13, 193, he married Mrs. Wilhelme Kausch (maiden name Taube) and in 1916 moved to Fairview, Okla., where they made their final home; the last two years they lived on the same yard with their children, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Warkentin, on account of the poor health of Mrs. Penner. The direct cause of his death was internal complications (stomach and bladder) and for three weeks he was treated at the Gaede's Sanitarium. From there he was taken to his children, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Engel, and the last five weeks at the home of his children, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Schmidt at Bessie. Different doctors were consulted but they could not help him and after much suffering and towards the last, unable to eat, he passed away to his heavenly reward at one o'clock p. m. on July 19. He leaves to mourn his death, a wife, three sons, five daughters, seven sons-in-law, four daughters-in-law, fifty-eight grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren and four brothers, besides step-children and step-grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends who mourn, but with the joyous assurance that they shall meet him in heaven. — Washita Co. Enterprise.
