Claassen, Margarete Goossen (1886-1959)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Jan 8 p. 6

Birth date: 1886 Jun 4

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Jan 22 p. 8

text of obituary:

MRS. MARGARETE CLAASSEN

Mr. Margarete Classen, nee Goossen, was born to Johannes and Margarete Penner Goossen on June 4, 1886, near DeWitt, Neb. She attended the local district school as well as the Mennonite parochial school of Beatrice, Nebr.

On May 23, 1904, she was baptized upon confession of her faith and was received into the First Mennonite Church of Beatrice, where she retained her church membership until the time of her death.

She was married to Jacob P. Claassen on Dec. 11, 1913. The four children who already were in this home and were still small at that time will always remember with deep thanksgiving the love with which their new mother cared for them. To this union were born two sons, one who died in infancy, and Arnold, who also with gratitude remembers his mother's love.

Mrs. Claassen and her husband, who preceded her in death October 27, 1953, lived near Beatrice as farmers throughout their lives.

Mother Claassen was called to her eternal home quite unexpectedly Friday, Jan. 2, 1959, after several months of failing health.

She is survived by three sons, Fred, and his wife Katie, and Robert, all of Beatrice, also Arnold and his wife Anna Margaret, of Newton, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Hamm, whose husband John passed away recently, and Gerturde; one brother, Frank Goosen [sic Goossen], all of Beatrice; and four grandchildren.