Dyck, Agnes Schmidt (1907-1949)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1949 Aug 18 p. 5

Birth date: 1907 Aug 21

text of obituary:

— A large congregation of relatives and friends attended funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Schmidt Dyck, wife of Rev. Walter H. Dyck, at the Emmaus church near Whitewater on Monday afternoon. Brief services were conducted at Moody's Funeral Home in Newton by Rev. H. N. Harder of Aberdeen, Idaho, and services at the church and cemetery were in charge of Rev. Walter Ediger and Rev. Waldo Harder. Mrs. Dyck passed away at the Bethel Deaconess hospital Friday evening after a long illness. She is survived by Rev. Dyck, pastor of the Emmaus church and General Conference secretary; three children, Gordon Ralph, Evelyn Agnes, and Gerald Paul of the home at Elbing; four sisters and four brothers, Rev. Dyck's parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Dyck, were scheduled to sail for Europe on Monday and were unable to return here for the funeral.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1949 Aug 25 p. 6

text of obituary:

MRS. AGNES DYCK

Our wife and mother, Mrs. Agnes Dyck, daughter of Peter and Helena Schmidt, was born near Goessel, Kansas, on August 21, 1907, and departed this life on Friday evening, August 12, 1949, at the age of almost forty-two years.

She received her elementary training in the local grade school, the Goessel Preparatory School, later also attending Bethel Academy and College. The following three years (1928-31) she taught in a nearby grade school.

On June 8, 1924, she was baptized upon confession of her faith in Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and became an active member of the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, devoting herself with particular interest and faithfulness, for a number of years, as one of the church pianists.

On August 21, 1931, she was united in marriage to Walter H. Dyck, joining her husband as homemaker on a farm near Elbing, Kansas, and transferring her membership, to the Zion Mennonite Church.

Having shared with her husband a fervent prayer for the Lord's will in regard to a call into the Gospel Ministry, she willingly accepted the double responsibility of homemaker and pastor's helpmate, living with her husband and family in Burrton, Kansas, 1936-40; in Beatrice, Nebraska, 1940-46: and in Newton, Kansas, from 1946-49. During the past months she was eagerly looking forward to sharing in the fellowship and active service in the Whitewater Emmaus Church community.

In April of 1948, having just returned with her husband from a visitation tour of Manitoba churches, she developed a rare illness of the blood stream, which confined her to the Bethel Deaconess Hospital during about six of the past sixteen months.

She leaves her husband, three children, Gordon, Evelyn, and Gerald, four brothers, four sisters, and many other relatives and friends.

We wish to remember our dear wife and mother especially by her love for and consecration to home duties, such as sewing, gardening, and cooking; by her repeated reminders of the need of family singing; by her reading to the children from the Bible story book; by her child-like prayers in the family circle; by her simple faith and tender heart; by her love for the church of Christ; by her hopeful cheerfulness and her fearlessness in the face of death. She was especially grateful to God for the love shown her during her illness, praying often for the doctors, deaconesses, nurses, and patients in the hospital.

We know that "God never closes one door without opening another.” The Lord has now opened a door of which the Prophet Isaiah speaks; in Chapter 51, verse 11:

"Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.”

Funeral services were held Monday, August 15, 1:15 p.m., at the Moody's Funeral Chapel in charge of Rev. H. N. Harder, Aberdeen, Idaho, and at 2:30 p.m., at the Emmaus Mennonite Church, Whitewater, Kansas, Rev. Walter Ediger, officiating. Burial was made in the nearby Emmaus cemetery, Rev. Waldo Harder, conducting the service at the graveside. The church choir and a men's quartet sang appropriate selections.

"I know not, O I know not, which joys await us there,
What radiancy of glory, what bliss beyond compare!
"There is the throne of David, and there, from care released,
The shout of them that triumph, the song of them that feast.
"And they, who with their Leader, have conquered in the fight,
Forever and forever are clad in robes of white,
“O sweet and blessed country, the home of God’s elect!
"O sweet and blessed country, that eager hearts expect!
“Jesus, in mercy bring us to that dear land of rest.
Who art, with God the father and Spirit ever blest!”

— The Family