Boehr, Elizabeth Wiebe (1888-1967)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1967 Sep 21 p. 3

Birth date: 1888 May 18

text of obituary:

Mother of Former Missionary Killed in Nebraska Crash

Word was received here Sunday by Rev. and Mrs. Malcolm Wenger that Mrs. Wenger's mother, Mrs. Henry Boehr, of Beatrice, Neb. had been fatally injured in a traffic accident near there.

The Wengers are former missionaries to the Cheyenne Indians in Montana and now reside in Newton, where he is serving as Home Missions and Evangelism Secretary for the Board of Missions.

According to information received by friends here, Mr. and Mrs. Boehr were returning home from an afternoon service at the First Mennonite Church near Beatrice when a youthful driver ran a stop sign, hitting the Boehr auto. Mr. Boehr was injured and was admitted to the Mennonite Hospital in Beatrice.

Mrs. Boehr, the former Elizabeth Wiebe, was 79. The funeral is to be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Beatrice Mennonite Church. Surviving in addition to the Wengers and their five daughters are two sisters, Mrs. P. D. Schultz of Wichita and Sister Magdalene Wiebe of the Bethel Home, Newton.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1967 Oct 19 p. 8

text of obituary:

MRS. HENRY BOEHR

Elizabeth Wiebe Boehr, daughter of Gerhard and Margaret Claassen Wiebe, was born in Samara, Russia, on May 18, 1888 in a German Colony where her father owned a general store.

Following the mother's death, her father carried out their plan to emigrate to the United States, and in 1894 Elizabeth settled with her family in Beatrice, Neb.

After public school she attended the parochial school under J. K. Penner in Beatrice, and then went on to Bethel Academy in North Newton, Kan.

She was baptized by Elder Gerhard Penner in the Mennonite Church of Beatrice on June 12, 1905.

On Aug. 15, 1918 she was married to Henry Boehr, and moved with her husband to a farm at Wisner, Neb. In this community they made many friends and were active in the Salem Mennonite Church. Upon retirement in 1948 they moved to their home in Beatrice. Here they joined the Beatrice Mennonite Church, participating fully and joyfully in its fellowship.

Their home always held a special welcome for Christian workers. Especially dear to their hearts was the mission work of the General Conference Mennonite Church, and it was a great joy to them when their daughter entered this work on the Montana Indian mission field. It seemed strangely fitting that the auto accident which took Mrs. Boehr's life on Sep. 17, 1967, should have occurred on their way home from a mission festival service in the church.

She leaves her husband, Henry Boehr; one daughter Esther, Mrs. Malcom [sic Malcolm] Wenger of Newton, Kan.; five grand-daughters; two sisters, Justina, Mrs. P. Dan Schultz of Wichita, Kan. and Sister Magdalena Wiebe of Newton.