Stoltzfus, Elizabeth S. Schrock (1876-1953)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1953 Jan 29 p. 2

Birth date: 1876

text of obituary:

FORMER KANSAS RESIDENT DIED AT WELLMAN, IA.

Wellman, Iowa. — Mrs. Ammon Stoltzfus, 77, a resident of this community since 1941 died at her home here Jan. 20. Funeral services were conducted at the Wellman Mennonite church on Jan. 22.

Mrs. Stoltzfus, the former Elizabeth S. Schrock of Eureka, Ill., was married to Mr. Stoltzfus in 1895 at Selden, Kansas, where they made their home until 1941. In addition to her husband, she leaves five children, 30 grandchildren and 52 great grandchildren.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1953 Feb 19 p. 5

text of obituary:

Correspondence

WELLMAN, IOWA

February 11,1953

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Mrs. Ammon Stoltzfus, 77, of the Wellman church passed away Jan. 20 of flu and complications ending in a heart attack. She is the first to be buried in the newly purchased cemetery plot at Wellman, this church never before having its own cemetery. Not only is her husband a member of the ministerial body at Wellman but she was a grandmother of the newly ordained minister’s wife Mrs. Robert Yoder of the Lower Deer Creek church.