Roth, Minnie Wenger (1910-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Jul 8 p. 8

Birth date: 1910 Oct 24

text of obituary:

MINNIE WENGER ROTH

Minnie Wenger Roth, 91, of Wayland, Iowa, died April 8, 2002, at Parkview Home. She was born Oct. 24, 1910, in Henry County, Iowa, to Edward and Elizabeth Good Wenger.

She was baptized Sept. 23, 1923, at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church. She married Elmer G. Roth on Dec. 30, 1930, at her parents' home. He died June 25, 1992.

Survivors include five children, Willard and his wife, Alice, of Elkhart, Ind.; Royce and his wife, Eileen, of Crawfordsville; Larry and his wife, Mary Lou, of Wayland; Karen Watson and her husband, Gordon, of Washington; and Janice Lindner and her husband, Roger, of Keokuk; two sisters, Margaret Richard of Mount Pleasant and Frances Wyse of Wayland; a brother, Clarence Wenger of Wayland, 15 grandchildren; a foster grandchild; 18 great-grandchildren, two great-great grandchildren and three foster great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by an infant brother and a grandson, Steve Custer.

She will be remembered as a loving and helping neighbor, a skilled and productive gardener and cook, and a caring and praying mother, grandmother and sister in the church and community.