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<font size="+2">'''Newton Businessman Called By Death'''</font> | |||
<center><h3>JACOB E. REGIER HAD SERVED ON COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL BOARDS</h3></center> | |||
Funeral services for Jacob E. Regier, 65, well known Newton business man and a member of the Bethel Deaconess Home and Hospital board of directors, were held Wednesday forenoon in the Sister Frieda Memorial Chapel. Rev. Harold Buller, his pastor, and Rev. J. N. Smucker of Chicago facilitated. | |||
Mr. Regier, who was president of the Regier Loan and Abstract company here, was stricken suddenly with a heart attack last Saturday afternoon in Topeka, where he and Mrs. Regier had gone to spend the week end with relatives. He died early Sunday May 23, in a Topeka hospital. | |||
He was born Feb. 27, 1889, to Jacob H. and Marie (Claassen) Regier on a farm east of Newton. In 1911 he joined his brothers, J. G. and W. W. Regier, in the loan and abstract business in which he remained active until his death. Over the years the company has served a number of Mennonite institutions and churches in this area. | |||
Mr. Regier had been a member of the Bethel College congregation since 1915 and formerly served on various conference boards as well as the Bethel College board. | |||
He is survived by his wife, the former Lulu Wright; two daughters, Mrs. Andrew Douglass of Newton and Mrs. Jack Stirling of Longmont, Colo.; one son, Max, of Newton; two brothers, Dr. Henry L. of Kansas City and Gustav P. of Newton; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Suderman and Miss Joanna Regier, both of Newton; and eight grandchildren. | |||
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Revision as of 09:32, 14 April 2015
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1954 May 27 p. 3
Birth date: 1889 Feb 27
text of obituary:
Newton Businessman Called By Death
JACOB E. REGIER HAD SERVED ON COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL BOARDS
Funeral services for Jacob E. Regier, 65, well known Newton business man and a member of the Bethel Deaconess Home and Hospital board of directors, were held Wednesday forenoon in the Sister Frieda Memorial Chapel. Rev. Harold Buller, his pastor, and Rev. J. N. Smucker of Chicago facilitated.
Mr. Regier, who was president of the Regier Loan and Abstract company here, was stricken suddenly with a heart attack last Saturday afternoon in Topeka, where he and Mrs. Regier had gone to spend the week end with relatives. He died early Sunday May 23, in a Topeka hospital.
He was born Feb. 27, 1889, to Jacob H. and Marie (Claassen) Regier on a farm east of Newton. In 1911 he joined his brothers, J. G. and W. W. Regier, in the loan and abstract business in which he remained active until his death. Over the years the company has served a number of Mennonite institutions and churches in this area.
Mr. Regier had been a member of the Bethel College congregation since 1915 and formerly served on various conference boards as well as the Bethel College board.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lulu Wright; two daughters, Mrs. Andrew Douglass of Newton and Mrs. Jack Stirling of Longmont, Colo.; one son, Max, of Newton; two brothers, Dr. Henry L. of Kansas City and Gustav P. of Newton; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Suderman and Miss Joanna Regier, both of Newton; and eight grandchildren.