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Anna Schragg Emmert was born Aug. 1, 1875 in Yankton, South Dakota. She passed away July 25, 1962, within one week of her eighty-seventh birthday. | Anna Schragg Emmert was born Aug. 1, 1875 in Yankton, South Dakota. She passed away July 25, 1962, within one week of her eighty-seventh birthday. | ||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 9 Aug 1962 p. 8
Birth date: 1875
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ANNA SCHRAGG EMMERT
Anna Schragg Emmert was born Aug. 1, 1875 in Yankton, South Dakota. She passed away July 25, 1962, within one week of her eighty-seventh birthday.
She was united in marriage to Benjamin Emmert on Nov. 20, 1895. To this union were born six sons: Jess, Floyd, Ivan and George of Sweet Home and Albert of Molalla. Her husband and son Ralph preceded her in death. She had 27 grandchildren, 71 great-grandchildren. One sister, Fannie Shenk of Sheridan, Ore. also survives.
She was a member of the Sweet Home Mennonite church, Sweet Home, Ore. Funeral services were held July 28 at the Tracewell Funeral home at ten o’clock, followed by a service at the Hopewell Mennonite Church, Hubbard, Ore. at 2 o’clock with Archie Kauffman and Walter McDowell officiating. Interment was made in the Hopewell Cemetery.