Peters, Anna Meta Dyck (1910-1981)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1981 Nov 12 p. 11

Birth date: 1910 Mar 25

text of obituary:

ANNA M. PETERS

Anna Meta Dyck was born Mar. 25, 1910 at Waldheim, Sask., and died Sept. 8, 1981 at age 71 in Wichita, Kan. She was the second child of Peter A. and Anna Bahnman Dyck, both of whom died before she reached the age of two. Anna and her older brother Henry were raised in homes of relatives, Anna living most of her youth with her maternal grandmother, Katharina Wiens Bahnman.

She was baptized in 1927 at Tiefengrund Rosenort Mennonite Church of Laird, Sask., attended Laird High School and graduated from Chicago School of Nursing by correspondence. After her grandmother's death in 1936, Anna moved to Newton, Kan., where she graduated from high school and in 1940 from Bethel Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing.

She was married to Arthur Peters of Walton in 1942. They lived for several years in Olympia, Wash., where she worked as a registered nurse while he was serving in a non-combatant role in the Army. Their daughter Kathleen was born in 1946, and shortly thereafter the family returned to the Kansas farm where their son Walter was born in 1950.

Anna was plagued with rheumatoid arthritis during the final 30 years of her life and was sustained through these often difficult times and numerous operations by the prayer support of her family and friends and her steadfast faith in God. She maintained a broad range of interests, including membership in several art associations and historical societies. She was a member of the First Mennonite Church of Newton, where she participated in sewing and quilting circles, prayer groups and the Homebuilders Sunday school class.

Surviving are the children and families, Walter and wife Kara Lynn of Minot, N. D. and Kathleen and husband Shingo Kajinami of Westfield, N. J. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980 and by her brother. A memorial service was held at the First Mennonite Church on Sept. 11, with Andrew Shelly in charge. She was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton.