Klassen, Anna Janzen Hiebert (1877-1968)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Sep 12 p. 8

Birth date: 1877

text of obituary:

• Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Klassen, 91, who died Sept. 4 at Bethesda Hospital in Goessel were held Saturday forenoon at the Bethel College Church. Rev. Esko Loewen officiated, and burial we made in the Tabor Cemetery. A native of Mt. Lake, Minn., Mrs. Klassen taught school there, and in 1900 was married to J. D. Hiebert. He died in 1913. In 1929 she married Abram J. Klassen, and they lived in the Hesston and Newton communities. Mr. Klassen died in 1950, and since 1964 Mrs. Klassen had been a guest at the Bethesda Home in Goessel. She leaves four daughters, Mrs. John L. Moyer of San Luis Obispo, Calif., Mrs. Wm. Penner of Bristol, Vt., Mrs. Albert D. Klassen of Newton, and Mrs. A. T. Mueller of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; four step-daughters, Mrs. Ben Unruh, Mrs. Arnold Goertzen, and Mrs. Henry B. Schmidt Jr., all of Peabody, and Mrs. J. M. Nachtigal of Buhler; a step-son, Albert D. Klassen of Newton, 24 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren.

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