Enns, Linda Wiens (1913-2002)

'Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Sep 30 p. 8

Birth date: 1913 Mar 8

text of obituary:

Linda Enns, 89, of Inman, Kan., died Sept. 12, 2002, at Pleasant View Home. She was born March 8, 1913, a half-mile from Inman, the daughter of Abraham W. and Margaret Thiessen Wiens.

A lifetime resident of the Inman area, she graduated from Inman Grade School and attended two years at Zoar Academy.

She enjoyed playing the accordion with a group of musicians, mostly for church and Christian endeavor programs. She also enjoyed cross-stitching quilt tops that the Bethel church ladies quilted and shared with family, and donated many to the Mennonite Central Committee sale and to Adriel School quilt auction in West Liberty, Ohio, where her daughter Doris is chaplain. She was an aide at Pleasant View Home for 15 years.

She was a lifetime member of Bethel Mennonite Church, Inman, teaching Sunday school for 40 years and was a member of Bethel Charity Society.

On June 6, 1934, she married Abe F. Enns at Inman. He survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Doris Enns of West Liberty, Ohio; a sister, Elizabeth Enns of Inman; a brother-in-law, Art Penner and his wife, Ella, of Fresno, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Rachel Enns of Inman; and 11 nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Helen Wiens Penner and Justina Wiens Neufeld; and a stepmother, Mary Reimer Wiens.

Funeral services were held at Bethel Mennonite Church. Burial was in North Inman Cemetery.