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Birth date: 1920
Birth date: 1920
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<center><font size="+2">'''Author, curriculum editor's work touched the lives of many children'''</font></center>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''By Robert Rhodes'''</span>
<font size="1">Mennonite Weekly Review</font>
CHILLIWACK, B.C. &#8212; Cornelia Lehn, who wrote numerous books and edited Mennonite Sunday school curricula during years of ministry to children, died July 2.  She was 84.
As director of children's ministries for the General Conference Mennonite Church in Newton, Kan., Lehn edited the Foundation Series Sunday school curriculum.
She was the author of popular books for children and families:  ''God Keeps His Promise, Peace Be With You, I Heard Good News Today'' and ''The Sun and the Wind,'' the latter a retelling of one of Aesop's fables.  she also wrote ''The Homemade Brass Plate,'' a biography of Mary Jackson, a pioneer physician in northern Alberta.
''Newton Kansan'' obituary: 2005 Sep 19 p. 2


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Revision as of 16:57, 9 February 2011

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Jul 25 p. 6

Birth date: 1920

text of obituary:

Author, curriculum editor's work touched the lives of many children

By Robert Rhodes

Mennonite Weekly Review

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Cornelia Lehn, who wrote numerous books and edited Mennonite Sunday school curricula during years of ministry to children, died July 2. She was 84.

As director of children's ministries for the General Conference Mennonite Church in Newton, Kan., Lehn edited the Foundation Series Sunday school curriculum.

She was the author of popular books for children and families: God Keeps His Promise, Peace Be With You, I Heard Good News Today and The Sun and the Wind, the latter a retelling of one of Aesop's fables. she also wrote The Homemade Brass Plate, a biography of Mary Jackson, a pioneer physician in northern Alberta.


Newton Kansan obituary: 2005 Sep 19 p. 2