Schmidt, Wanda C. (1915-1974)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1974 Jun 13 p. 8

Birth date: 1915 Nov 28

text of obituary:

Newton and Vicinity

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• Funeral services were held at the Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston on June 7 for Miss Wanda C. Schmidt, 58, who died at Mercy Hospital in Moundridge on June 4 after a long illness. The services were in charge of Rev. Marlo Graber. Miss Schmidt taught in schools of this area for 30 years, and had been a resident of Hesston since 1944. Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Carl Schmidt, and two sisters, Ruth Schmidt and Mrs. Willard Nitsche, all of Hesston.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1974 Jul 11 p. 11

text of obituary:

WANDA SCHMIDT

In anticipation of her departure Wanda Schmidt, a resident of Hesston, Kan. since 1944, prepared her own obituary before she died at Mercy Hospital, Moundridge, Kan. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Friday, June 7, at Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston with Pastors Marlo Graber was and Gerhard Nickel officiating. Interment was in the Hesston Cemetery.

I, Wanda Schmidt, was born to Carl and Sara Unruh Schmidt in the Bethesda Hospital at Goessel, Kan. on Nov. 28, 1915. (She departed this life to be with the Lord on June 4, 1974, reaching the age of 59.)

I graduated from Emmenthal Elementary School, Newton High School, and the two-year program at Hesston College. I was awarded Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Education by Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. I taught school for 30 years, 21 years in rural schools of Marion, McPherson and Harvey counties. The last nine years I taught in Halstead Elementary and Cooper School in Newton.

From earliest childhood I was taught the Bible. As soon as I could read I read all the Bible stories in my mother's German Bible. How thrilled I was to receive my own Bible as a Christmas gift! Though I have read the Bible through several times, Psalms and Proverbs have been my comfort and strength in times of sorrow, frustration, disappointment and failure.

I was baptized by my uncle, Rev. P. H. Unruh, and received as a member in the Alexanderwohl Church. Later I transferred my membership to Fellowship Chapel, Newton, Kan. The Lord granted me the privilege of teaching Sunday school classes from my own age group to fourth grade boys to high school age people. Studying to teach caused my own growth in the knowledge of the written and living Word of the living God. I trust the Lord that he helped people in my classes also to grow in this knowledge.

On Oct. 11, 1972, surgery revealed cancer in me in an extended state. I submitted to chemotherapy and the Lord extended my live beyond my doctor's expectations. II Corinthians 5:1, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," is now true of me. Hope you are with me in the rapture.

Left here on earth are Mother Sara Schmidt, sisters Ruth and Irene with her husband Willard Nitzsche, sister-in-law Mrs. Ralph Schmidt, nephew Larry Nitzsche, and three nieces, Lori and Judy Nitzsche and Bonnie with her husband Larry Ruzich. Preceding me in death were my father on Oct. 19, 1956, and my brother Ralph on July 15, 1969.