Wiebe, Henry Enz (1913-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Oct 20 p. 16

Birth date: 1913 May 9

text of obituary:

HENRY E. WIEBE

Henry Enz Wiebe, 90, of North Newton, Kan., died Sept. 5, 2003, at Kidron-Bethel Health Care. He was born May 9, 1913, to Henry B. and Katie Enz Wiebe in Newton.

The family moved to Aberdeen, Idaho, in 1930, and he graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1933. He was baptized in 1931 and joined First Mennonite Church of Aberdeen.

He was deferred from military service in World War II because he was needed on the farm. After the war he did voluntary service, taking a load of cattle on a Liberty Ship to Europe under United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation in conjunction with Mennonite Central Committee. He went on another MCC assignment to Poland to teach tractor maintenance for six months.

On June 13, 1951, he married a young war widow, Ruth Schmidt Peters. His employment included working for his brother Walter's grocery store, driving a truck to deliver gas and oil, working as a field man for Lamb-Weston Potato Processing Co., and operating heavy equipment for Bingham County road maintenance.

At First Mennonite of Aberdeen, he served as church treasurer, Sunday school treasurer, deacon and Men's Brotherhood president, and sang in the men's chorus.

In November 1990 they moved to Kidron-Bethel Village. He transferred his membership to First Mennonite Church of Newton, Kan., in 1992. He entered Kidron-Bethel Health Care in 1998.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth; three children, Marianne Harper and her husband, Curtis, of Fort Worth, Texas, Gordon of Beaverton, Ore., and Dorothy Wiebe-Johnson and her husband, Steve, of Elkhart, Ind.; a sister, Elsie Epp of Newton; and four grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Walter, Karl and Willard; and two sisters, Esther Becker and Florence Nickel.

Services were held at First Mennonite Church of Newton. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.

Newton Kansan obituary: 2003 Sep 8 p. 2