Schmidt, Anna Neumann (1888-1983)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1983 Jun 30 p. 8

Birth date: 1888 Jun 17

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NEWTON & VICINITY

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● Funeral services for Anna Schmidt, 95, who died June 23, were held June 25 at the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church near Goessel with Orlando Waltner officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Born June 17, 1888, at Goessel, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johann Schmidt. She studied to be a nurse and was ordained as a Sister at Bethesda Hospital in 1926. She left the sisterhood to marry B. B. Neumann on Aug. 12, 1936. He died in 1948. On June 5, 1950, she married Adolf Schmidt, who died in 1958. She became a resident of the Bethesda Home in 1971. Survivors include a stepdaughter, Neva Unrau of Lincoln, neb.; a brother, Herman F. Schmidt of Newton; and two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Funk of Goessel and Mrs. Elizabeth Goertz of Lehigh.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1983 Jul 21 p. 11

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ANNA SCHMIDT

Anna Schmidt was born June 17, 1888, near Goessel, Kan., to Johann and Helena Funk Schmidt, one of 11 children. She was educated at Gordon Grade School and studied one year at the Goessel Preparatory School.

On June 3, 1906, she was baptized upon confession of faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and joined the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church.

She graduated in 1919 from nurses' training at Bethesda Hospital and soon became superintendent of the hospital. In 1926 she was ordained as a deaconess. She resigned her position in order to marry B. B. Neumann of Marion on Aug. 12, 1936.

She took care of her aged parents in her home beginning in 1942 until their deaths — her father in 1949 and her mother in 1952. Her husband died in 1947, after which she moved with her parents to Hillsboro.

On June 6, 1950, she married Adolf Schmidt, who died in 1958. She continued living in Hillsboro until entering Bethesda Home in Goessel in 1971.

She is survived by two sisters, Neta (Mrs. Paul) Funk of Bethesda Home and Elizabeth and husband Peter I. Goertz of rural Canton; one brother, Herman, and wife Susie of Newton; two sisters-in-law. Louise (Mrs. Gerhard Schmidt and Margaret (Mrs. Simon) Schmidt, both of Goessel; and nieces and nephews. She is also remembered by the grandchildren of her first husband, Arthur and wife Anna Mae Voth and Helen and Ray Schmidt; and the children of her second husband, Neva and husband William Unruh and son-in-law Rudy Jantz.