Linscheid, Anna Sidonia Hirschler (1874-1948)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Feb 26 p. 5

Birth date: 1874 Oct 10

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Mar 4 p. 3

text of obituary:

MRS. G. A. LINSCHEID

Mrs. G. A. Linscheid (nee Anna Sidonia Hirschler) was born as the second child of Rev. J. S. and Christina (Schmidt) Hirschler on October 10, 1874, in Franklin Center, Lee county, Iowa, where her father was minister at the time. Here she attended the public school and German school taught by her father until 1884, when he was sent to Hillsboro, Kansas by the Home Mission Committee to organize a Mennonite church there. She continued her education here, completing the school course in 1889.

On January 11, 1891, she was baptized by her father. In 1891-92 she attended the Halstead Seminary and then taught four years, the last three in the so-called Lighthouse school northeast of Hillsboro. During the school year 1897-98 she attended the Bethel College Academy, being graduated with the class of 1898. After this she taught in the Hillsboro public school for five years.

On September 16, 1903, she was married to Missionary G. A. Linscheid, who was then stationed at what is now the Clinton, Oklahoma station. In the spring of 1904 they were sent to Busby, Montana, where they pioneered in the establishment of the first mission station among the Northern Cheyenne Indians, and served for 16 years.

For reasons of health it became necessary for them to make a change, and in 1920 they were sent back to Cantonment, Oklahoma, where Rev. Linscheid had started his work in the mission in 1895. They continued in the mission work until 1938 when they resigned on account of Mrs. Linscheid’s health, and came to Newton, Kansas to make their home. Later they were back, both in Montana and Oklahoma, to help out for short times, and Rev. Linscheid found opportunities to serve in Kansas, for a time at Johannesthal and later at the Emmanuel church north of Modunridge [sic Moundridge]. He took sick in the fall of 1941, and passed away April 14, 1942, at the Bethel hospital.

On December 31, 1945, Mrs. Linscheid came to the Bethel Home where she has resided since she was taken seriously ill on February 16, 1948, and passed on to her heavenly reward at 7:00 o’clock on the morning of February 19, having reached the age of 73 years.

Mrs. Linscheid is survived by two sons, Harold W. of Weatherford, Oklahoma, and Chester H. of Lincoln, Nebraska, and three grandchildren.