Funk, Annie Clemmer (1874-1912)

The Mennonite obituary: 1912 Apr 25 p. 1

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✟SISTER ANNIE FUNK✟

According to the latest news it seems that our sister, Annie Funk, is among those who found a wet grave with the passengers of the illfated "Titanic". She was returning home from India in order to see her sick mother once more. She intended to some on the "Haverford", but must have changed to the "Titanic". god leads us in mysterious ways. We hope to say more about this sad occurrence in next week's issue.

The Mennonite obituary: 1912 May 16 p. 1

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EDITORIAL.

We are very glad to be enabled by the kindness of Bro. U. S. Stauffer of Quakertown, Pa., to bring a good picture of Sister Annie Funk. We also bring the resolution passed by our Eastern Conference, which enables every friend of our dear sister to contribute to a memorial for her.

✟ Annie C. Funk ✟ Our missionary sister, who was one of the victims of the "Titanic" catastrophe. A MEMORIAL FOR ANNIE C. FUNK

At the meeting of the Eastern District Conference, held at Zion church, Souderton, Pa., May 5 to 7 the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved that the chairman appoint a committee of three with power to act, to confer with the parents of our lamented sister, Annie Funk, and with the pastor of her home church, to arrange for the erection of a suitable memorial to her memory, in the cemetery where the family has its burial plot. The memorial shall not cost less than seventy-five dollars. The said committee shall devise ways and means to meet the expense of the memorial."

The committee appointed consists of teh brethren Jos. B. Bechtel, Philadelphia, chairman; Wm. M. Gehman, Macungie, Pa. treas.; U. S. Stauffer, Quakertown, Pa., secretary. A subscription list was opened at once and a very substantial sum pledged before adjournment of the conference.

By this notice the committee desires to give all who feel prompted to assist in this worthy cause, an opportunity to do so and will thankfully credit all gifts that will be given. Contributions should be sent to the treasurer of the committee.

U. S. S.

The Mennonite obituary: 1912 Aug 1 p. 1

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A USEFUL MEMORIAL ERECTED IN HONOR OF SISTER ANNIE FUND ON THE MISSION FIELD

Bally, Pa., July 25, 1912.

Dear Brother van der Smissen:

Your suggestion regarding a memorial building in India is in line with the suggestion I had made to the committee after their appointment and which has been expressed in substance by others. There seems to be a very general feeling in favor of honoring Sister Funk's memory by some useful structure erected in her name on the field to which she had dedicated her life. The committee also is in full sympathy with the thought. However, their first work is to carry out the specific instruction of the Conference, viz. to erect a memorial of some kind, either stone or tablet, here within the precincts of the family home and in the congregation and conference, whose representative in an especial sense she was.

In doing this they are guided by two thoughts in the nature of limitations, as they expressed themselves on Saturday. — First to make this memorial specifically one by the Eastern Conference using for it only gifts from congregations and members of this conference; and second, to avoid extravagance both in fact and appearance by setting s due limit to the size and cost and showy appearance of the memorial, and then use any part of funds contributed as above stated that may remain, as a nucleus for a fund for the other memorial on the field. In the forming of this nucleus and contributions as yours and others already received unsolicited from individuals in the west, can and will be counted in. Thus I think both thoughts will be met and I feel sure that when the plan is made known there will come many and liberal contributions for the general memorial, the idea of which appeals to me also more strongly than the local one, while I am in full accord with the latter, if carried out in the spirit above stated.

I have written to the workers in India for suggestions as to what shape a memorial on the field might take to be most appropriate and immediately useful to the work. The church at Champa is one such form, but there may be another seven more appropriate or desirable, form the standpoint of her fellow-workers in the field as a whole.

The Mennonite obituary: 1913 May 15 p. 4