Schertz, Amos A. (1879-1957)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 Dec 19 p. 10

Birth date: 1879 Dec 3

text of obituary:

AMOS A. SCHERTZ

Amos A. Schertz, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gingerich) Schertz, was born Dec. 3, 1879, near Eureka, Ill., and died Nov. 17, 1957, at the Brooks County Hospital, Falfurrias, Texas, age 77 years, 11 months and 14 days.

In early youth he accepted Christ as his personal Savior and united with the Mennonite church, remaining faithful until death.

On Jan. 12,1905, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Ulrich of Garden City, Mo., who with her parents had moved a year earlier from Metamora, Ill. This union was blessed with three children. He spent his early married life with his family in Illinois as a farmer.

In November 1929 he and his family moved to Falfurrias, Texas. Since Sept. 10, 1930, he had resided on his farm west of that city.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Elizabeth; three children, Harold J. and Violet Mae of Falfurrias, Texas, and Arthur L. of Nampa, Idaho; one granddaughter, Marilyn Kay Schertz of Nampa; one sister, Bertha Imhoff of Metamora, Ill., besides nieces, nephews and a host of friends. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Henry G. and Andrew P., and two sisters, Emma, Mrs. Samuel Steider, his twin, and Elizabeth, Mrs. C. M. Ulrich, all of Eureka, Ill.

Funeral services were held at the Falfurrias Church of the Brethren on Nov. 12, in charge of K. O. Thralls and H. F. Reist. Burial was made in Falfurrias Burial Park.