Toews, Dorothy Jean Leisy (1922-1946)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1946 Aug 22 p. 3

Birth date: 1922 Aug 11

text of obituary:

DOROTHY JEAN TOEWS

Dorothy Jean Toews, wife of Edward Toews, was born August 11, 1922, at Salem, Oregon. It pleased the Lord to call her Home at 2:45 o'clock Tuesday morning, July 30, after a lingering illness.

She spent the early part of her life in Salem, Oregon, coming to Dallas with her parents in 1939. Early in life she accepted the Lord Jesus as her personal Saviour, was baptized and united with the Emmanuel Mennonite church at Pratum, Oregon. She transferred her membership to the Grace Mennonite church of Dallas on October 15, 1939, where she was very active until her departure.

She graduated from Dallas high school and the Beacon Bible school, and majored in music at the Northwest Nazarene College at Nampa, Idaho. She was united in marriage to Edward Toews on February 22, 1946, after which she resided at Albany.

She is survived by her husband, Edward Toews; her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Homer Leisy; two sisters, Leona (Mrs. Homer Welty) of Portland, and Bette (Mrs. Vernon Dyck) of Corvallis; and many relatives and friends.

We sorrow not as others who have no hope, for Dorothy had a childlike trust in her Redeemer that did not waver, even under extreme physical suffering. She had no fear of death and told us again and again that to depart and be with Christ is far better than the best the world can offer.

Funeral services were held at the Dallas Grace Mennonite church on August 3. Rev. Wilbert A. Regier of Pratum, a close relative of the family, officiated. Two songs were sung by the young men's quartet of Pratum, consisting of Grover Welty, Henry Beutler, Ralph and Edgar Nafziger, Mrs. Wilbert Regier played the piano. Pall bearers were D. Diehn, Herman Fast, Herman Schrag, Edd Schierling and Oliver Linscheid. Interment was made in the Pratum Mennonite cemetery.

The Mennonite obituary: 1946 Aug 20 p. 14