Franzen, Marie Regehr (1907-1975)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Feb 6 p. 8

Birth date: 1907

text of obituary:

Newton and Vicinity

• Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Goessel Mennonite Church for Mrs. Gerhard Franzen, 67, of rural Canton, who died Jan. 28 at the Bethesda Hospital. The services were in charge of Rev. Henry Goossen, the pastor. Mrs. Franzen was the former Marie Regehr of Mt. lake, Minn. She married Gerhard Franzen at Mt. Lake in 1940, and they had lived on the farm near Canton since that time. Survivors include Mr. Franzen; three sons, Kenneth of Bellaire, Texas, Irvin G. of Topeka, and Daniel of Newton; three daughters, Mrs. John Adams Jr. of Tyndale Air Force Base in Florida, Mrs. Ray Noffsinger of Germantown, Ohio, and Mrs.. Alfred Unruh of Dayton, Ohio; five brothers, Lando Regehr of Butterfield, Minn., David D. and Harry Regehr, both of Mt. Lake, Henry Regehr of Oglivie [sic Ogilvie], Minn. and Albert Regehr of Minneapolis, Minn.; three sisters, Mrs. P. J. Duerksen and Mrs. Ervin Neufeld, both of Mt. Lake, and Mrs. John Kliewer of Stockham, Neb.; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Mar 27 p. 11