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Wiens, Aganetha (1891-1941)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1941 Jun 11 p. 5
Birth date: 1891 Jun 2
text of obituary:
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— The past week-end was a time of many tragedies. To the tornadoes and rainstorms were added several serious automobile accidents, resulting in injury and death. This morning at about eleven o'clock Sister Aganetha Wiens of the Bethel Hospital died of injuries received last Sunday in a auto wreck near Eureka. She had been taken to the Basham Hospital there, where she also passed away. Together with Sister Aganetha in the same accident were John Wiens, Buhler, who suffered scalp cuts and was in a serious condition; Mrs. Wiens, his wife, who has a chest injury, Esther Wiens, who was badly shaken up, and Leona Enns, a student nurse, who has a broken pelvis. The accident happened when cars were passing each other and the Wiens car was hurled against a concrete culvert. Sister Aganetha will be greatly missed by the Bethel Sisters, by whom she was loved and highly respected. She is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Maria Wiens of Newton, Mrs. G. F. Kroeker of Lebanon, Ore., John J. Wiens, Buhler, Berhard E. Wiens [sic Gerhard], Hillsboro, Jacob E. Wiens and Abr. E. Wiens, Meade, Mrs. Peter F. Nachtigal and Mrs. Harry Grochowsky, Newton. Funeral services are to be held Saturday, at 1;30 p.m. at the Bethel Deaconess Home chapel and at 2 P. M. at the First Mennonite church.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1941 Jun 18 p. 1
text of obituary:
At home with God!
In such brief hours of parting
Your pilgrim dress was folded,
Laid aside.
Free as a bird
That in the darkening shadows
Soars high in search of light
At eventide,
So fled your soul
through earth's dark night of pain
To dwell with God again.
"Eye hat not seen, ear hath not heard; neither hat entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."
Sister Aganetha Wiens was born near Inman, Kansas, on June 2, 1891. Hers was the privilege of a simple Christian home and the fellowship of a large family circle.
She opened her heart to the call of the Saviour early in youth and confessed Him in baptism on May 3, 1909, joining at that time the Defenseless Mennonite church near Inman. Later she became a member of the Bethel church near the same place. After she made her home in Newton, she transferred her membership to the First Mennonite church in that city.
Sister Aganetha received her preliminary education in the district school near Inman and later the academy in Bethel College. On September 22, 1922, she entered nurses' training at the Bethel Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. It was during her years of training here that she felt the call to serve her Lord as a deaconess, and wishing to give her life unto this service, she was taken into the Sisterhood on September 25, 1925. She entered the work with a gladness of heart and found a deep satisfaction in her calling. She grew in grace and in the knowledge of her lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and ministered unto Him in faithful, loving service. On May 29, 1927, she was ordained as a deaconess. It can be said of her: "They that have served well, gain to themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." (I Tim. 3: 13)
Her life was not spared its trials for
The Mennonite obituary: 1941 Jul 15 p. 13
