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Friesen, Katy Flaming (1874-1959)
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| + | <font size="+2">'''Aged Pioneer Called Away In Death'''</font> |
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| + | Buhler, Kan. — Death on Friday, Jan. 9, removed from this community one of the early Mennonite pioneers and a life-time resident of Kansas. |
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| + | Mrs. Katy Friesen, 84, a resident of the Sunshine Mission Home, passed away at the Grace Hospital in Hutchinson. Born at Marion on Aug. 1, 1874, she was sometimes referred to as the first child born in Kansas of Russian Mennonite parentage during the great immigration of 1874. Her parents, Rev. and Mrs. John A. Flaming, had been in Kansas only six days at the time of her birth. |
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| + | The family at that time went by foot from Peabody to the homestead near the present site of Hillsboro, which was to be their future home. |
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| + | Mrs. Friesen's husband, the late Gerhard Friesen, died in 1943. |
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| + | ''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1959 Jan 29 p. 8 |
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Revision as of 15:35, 8 February 2018
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Jan 15 p. 5
Birth date: 1874
text of obituary:
Aged Pioneer Called Away In Death
Buhler, Kan. — Death on Friday, Jan. 9, removed from this community one of the early Mennonite pioneers and a life-time resident of Kansas.
Mrs. Katy Friesen, 84, a resident of the Sunshine Mission Home, passed away at the Grace Hospital in Hutchinson. Born at Marion on Aug. 1, 1874, she was sometimes referred to as the first child born in Kansas of Russian Mennonite parentage during the great immigration of 1874. Her parents, Rev. and Mrs. John A. Flaming, had been in Kansas only six days at the time of her birth.
The family at that time went by foot from Peabody to the homestead near the present site of Hillsboro, which was to be their future home.
Mrs. Friesen's husband, the late Gerhard Friesen, died in 1943.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Jan 29 p. 8
