Richert, Cornelius (1869-1938)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1938 Sep 7 p. 5

Birth date: 1869

text of obituary:

Rev. Corn. Richert.

Rev. Corn. Richert, 69, of Fresno, Calif., for the past eleven years an instructor of German at the Fresno State College, died in a hospital on August 15 after an illness of two weeks.

He was born in Russia and came to the U. S. with his parents, Cornelius Richerts, at the age of five years. He received his early education in Kansas and started teaching when he was seventeen years old. H e served as minister of the Zion and the Congregational churches in Fresno for many years before accepting the position at the State College eleven years ago.

Rev. Richert was the first full time instructor of German at the college and organized the German club there. He had made three trips to the Holy Land, and to Germany and two years ago, conducted a group of students on a tour.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Barbara Richert; three daughters, Cornelia and Margaret Richert, and Mrs. Lydia Smith; six sons, Paul, Theodore, Walter, Herbert, Julius, and Robert Richert, all of Fresno; two sisters, Mrs. John Clark of South Dakota, and Mrs. Mary Richert of Kansas, and three brothers, John R. of Colorado, and Jacob and Peter C. Richert both of Kansas. A grandson, William Richert of Fresno also survives.