Unruh, Martha C. Schmidt (1911-1987)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1987 Apr 16 p. 12

Birth date: 1911

text of obituary:

NEWTON & VICINITY

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● Funeral services for Martha C. Schmidt Unruh, 76, of Goessel are scheduled for April 17 at Tabor Mennonite Church near Newton, with Ray Hurst and Roland Goering officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. A retired teacher, she died on April 14 at Parkside Homes, Hillsboro. She had lived on a farm near Goessel until 1981, when she moved to town. Survivors include her husband, Otto Unruh; one son, Robert, of Newton; three daughters, Bonita Heinrichs of rural Hillsboro, Mae Nelson of McPherson and Elaine Ratzlaff of Moundridge, five brothers, Clarence Schmidt of Ferndale, Wash., Charles and Harold Schmidt, both of Hesston, Milton Schmidt of Walton and Earl Schmidt of Pawnee Rock; three sisters, Irma Schmidt of Ferndale, Elsie Zielke of Newton and Edna Schrag of Wichita; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by one daughter and infant twins.