Haury, Susie Lydia Hirschler (1861-1944)

Christlicher Bundesbote obituary: 1944 Apr 4 p. 14

Birth date: 1861 Jun 16

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Susie Lydia Hirschler-Haury ward am 16. Juni, 1861, nahe Trenton, Illinois, geboren als eins von 7 Kindern der Familie, Pred. und Frau Daniel Hirschler. Am 16. Mai, 1875, ward sie getauft und Glied der Summerfield, Ill. Mennonitengemeinde. Hier besuchte sie die Schule und als sie 15 Jahre alt war tat sie ihr Vater in die Mährische Mädchenschule zu Hope, Indiana, wo Susie in 3 Jahren den Musikkursus. absolvielte. Am 20. Nov. 1879 heiratete sie Samuel S. Haury, und bald darauf ward das junge Paar als die ersten Missionare der Allgemeinen Konferenz der Mennonitengemeinschaft von N. A. ordiniert. Nach längeren Umschau seitens der Missionsbehörde, einigte man sich auf das Feld unter den Arapahoe und Cheyenne Indianern im damaligen Indian Territory (jetzt Oklahoma); und das junge Paar fuhr in einem Verdeckwagen von Halstead, Kansas, nach Darlington, I. T., wo sie am 18. Mai, 1880, ankamen. Unter großen Schwierigkeiten ward das erste Missionshaus errichtet, welches sowohl als Missionshelm und Schulhaus für Arapahoe Kinder dienen sollte. Im Sept., 1881, ward die Schule mit 17 Kostschülern eröffnet; doch am 19. Februar 1882, ward das Heim ein Opfer der Flammen und 4 Kinder, darunter Haurys ältestes Söhnchen, Carl, und 3 Halbblut Indianer, erstickten. Bald war ein neues Haus errichtet und auch eine zweite Station, 65 Meilen N. W. in einem früheren Militärposten, den die Regierung der Missionsbehörde übergab, eröffnet und Haurys übernahmen diese Station im Februar 1886. In 1887 verließen Pred. Haurys das Missionsfeld und zogen nach St. Louis, wo er im Frühjahr 1889 einen medizinischen Kursus absolvierte und sie sich dann in Moundridge, Kansas, niederließen. Hier praktizierte er Medizin bis sie in 1893 nach Newton kamen, wo er bis 1913 praktizierte und dann in Upland, Calif., im Ruhestand wohnte bis zu seiner Auflösung am 19. Mai, 1929. In der Ersten Mennonitengemeinde in Newton diente die Heimgerufene der S. S. Klasse von jungen Frauen und war sehr aktiv in Jugendverein, Frauen Missionsverein, usw. Sie beteiligte sich aktiv an der Gründung des Gemeindechors und als der Leiter, J. E. Ruth, wegzog, übernahm sie die Leitung. Frau Haury war besonders aktiv in der Erweiterung der Arbeit der Frauen Missionsvereine der Allgemeinen Konferenz. Es wurde bald Brauch, daß auf den Konferenzsitzungen den Missionsvereinen ein Abend zuerkannt wurde, und sie war eine Reihe von Jahren Vorsitzerin des Programmkomitees und dieser Abendversammlungen. Als sich die Frauenvereine in 1917 in Reedley, Calif., verbanden, ward sie als erste Präsidentin und auch als Vorsitzerin des Frauen Exekutiv-Komitees gewählt. Dieses Amt hatte sie inne bis sie auf der Sitzung in Bluffton, Ohio, in 1933 als Ehrenpräsidentin gewählt wurde und das Amt bis zuletzt hatte. Im August, 1932 begab die Heimgerufene sich nach Granville, Ohio, und wohnte da bei ihrer Tochter Susie bis zum 20. August, 1942, als sie nach dem Bethel Altenheim in Newton kam. Nach kurzer Krankheit entschlief sie hier im Herrn um Mittag am 12. März, 1944, in Alter von 82 J. 8 M. und 26 Tagen. Ihre 3 Söhne sind gestorben. Es leben 4 Töchter: Dora, Frau Jacob H. Quiring, New York, N. Y.; Frl. Elsa, Wichita, Kansas; Frl. Susie, Granville, Ohio; und Helen, Frau L. C. Boyton, Rochester, N. Y. Diese mit Angehörigen und vielen Freunden gedenken ihrer mit Liebe und Hochachtung. Beim Begräbnis dienten die Prediger J. E. Entz und Ed. G. Kaufman und der College a cappella Chor sang, Bestattung auf dem Greenwood Friedhof, Newton.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1944 Mar 16 p. 5

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— Mrs. S. S. Haury, widely known widow of the late Dr. S. S. Haury, died last Sunday morning at the Bethel Home for Aged, where she resided since August, 1942. During the opening of the services at the First Mennonite church Sunday morning the announcement was made that she was critically ill. By the time the services closed word was received that she had passed away. Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Haury were the first General Conference missionaries to the Oklahoma Indians. They opened the first station among the Arapahos in Darlington Indian Territory in 1880. The next year, in 1881, they built the first mission school there. On February 19, 1882, the mission school building burned down and Dr. and Mrs. Haury had the tragic experience that their small son suffocated in the fire. In 1887 they left for St. Louis, Mo., where her husband began his studies in a medical school. Then followed years of successful work as doctor, most of which were spent at Moundridge and Newton. In 1913 Dr. and Mrs. Haury moved to California, where Dr. Haury died in 1929. For a time then Mrs Haury made her home with her daughter at Granville, Ohio. Funeral services were held at the First Mennonite church here Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Dr. E. G. Kaufman, president of Bethel College, and Rev. J. E. Entz. The following daughters survive: Mrs. J. H. Quiring, New York City; Miss Elsa M. Haury, Wichita; and Miss Sue Haury, Granville, Ohio. Dr. H. S. Haury of Newton is a nephew.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1944 Mar 23 p. 3

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Mrs. S. S. Haury and Husband First General Conference Missionaries

WIFE OF WELL KNOWN DOCTOR AND MISSIONARY DIED AT BETHEL HOME FOR AGED SUNDAY, MARCH 12

The death of Mrs. S. S. Haury at the Bethel Home for Aged on Sunday, March 12, ended a life of long and outstanding service in various capacities. Mrs. Haury and her husband were the first missionaries of the General Conference of Mennonites of N. A.

The following is an interesting account of her eventful life:

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Suzie Lydia Hirschler was born near Trenton, Illinois, on June 16, 1861, one of seven sisters and three brothers — children of Rev. Daniel Hirschler and maria Schmidt Hirschler who had immigrated to the United States in 1856.

She received her early education in Summerfield, one of her teachers being Rev. David Goerz, the founder of Bethel College. At the age of fifteen, her father placed her in the Moravian Girls' Academy at Hope, Indiana, where she completed the course at the end of three years.

On November 20, 1879, she was married to Samuel S. Haury, then missionary candidate of the General Conference of Mennonites in the Summerfield church, by the elder, Rev. Christian Krehbiel, during a session of the General Conference and the couple was ordained as the first missionaries to be sent out by this organization.

The field of labor selected by the mission board after a longer period of search lay among the Arapahoe Indians in the Indian Territory and the young couple took their wedding trip from Halstead, Kansas, to their new field of work in a covered wagon. They arrived at Darlington, Indian territory, on May 18, 1880.

Under great difficulties the first mission building was erected which was to serve both as a home and a school for Indian Arapahoe children. By September, 1881, the school was opened with 17 pupils who were living in the home. But already on February 19, 1882, the building was destroyed by fire, causing the suffocation of Carl, the 9½ months old son of the Haurys, as well as that of three half-breed children.

A new building was again erected at Darlington and a second station opened at Cantonment, 65 miles away, in an abandoned military outpost which had been turned over to our mission board by the U. S. government. The Haurys took over the new station in February, 1883.

In 1887 Rev. and Mrs. Haury left the mission field and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Rev. Haury entered the St. Louis medical school, completing his course in the spring of 1889. In the fall of that year, Dr. Haury with his family located at Moundridge, Kansas, where he practiced medicine until 1893 when he moved to Newton. When Dr. Haury retired from active practice in 1913 the family moved to Upland, California. Here Dr. Haury passed away on May 19, 1929.

During this entire period, both Dr. and Mrs. Haury were active in church work, having affiliated themselves with the West Zion church in Moundridge, Kansas, a and the First Mennonite church of Newton, Kansas, and that at Upland, California.

In the First Mennonite church of Newton Mrs. Haury continuously had a Sunday school class of young women and participated in the work of the Christian Endeavor and the Women's Missionary Society. She was instrumental in the organization of the first church choir under J. E. Ruth and became its director when Mr. Ruth and his family moved to Oklahoma.

Mrs. Haury was especially active in the expansion of the work of the women's missionary societies of the General Conference.

It early became the established custom to turn over one evening at each General Conference session to the women's societies. For a period of years she was chairman of the program committee and presided at these evening meetings. When the societies organized at the Reedley conference in 1917, she was elected the first president of the Women's Missionary Association and the chairman of the executive committee. This office she retained until she retired at the general Conference meeting at Bluffton, Ohio, in 1933. She remained its honorary president until her passing.

In August, 1932, Mrs. Haury went to Granville, Ohio, where she made her home with her daughter Sue until August 20, 1942, when she entered the Bethel Home for the Aged in Newton. After a brief illness she fell asleep on Sunday, March 12, 1944 at 11:17 A. M. and her spirit was released to enter the presence of Him in whom she had believed and to whom she had dedicated her life. She reached the age of 82 years, 8 months and 26 days.

Of seven children born to Dr. and Mrs. Haury two sons, Cal and Paul, died as infants on the mission field in Indian Territory. A third son, T. Walter, passed away at Newton, Kansas, December 13, 1903 at the age of almost 18½ years.

Surviving their mother are four daughters, Dora, Mrs. Jacob H. Quiring of New York City; Elsa of Wichita, Kansas; Sue of Granville, Ohio, and Helen, Mrs. L. C. Boynton of Rochester, Ne York. Besides these one son-in-law, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, many nieces, nephews, and friends remain to cherish the memory of one who was loved and esteemed while sojourning among them.

A life rich in service has come to an end. It can truly be said of her that she did what she could: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . yes, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." (Rev. 14:13)

Funeral services for Mrs. Haury were held in the Home and at the First Mennonite Church of Newton, March 15, Rev. J. E. Entz and President E. G. Kaufman of Bethel College officiating. The Bethel College a capella choir under the direction of Mr. Walter Hohmann sang the following three numbers — The Chorale, "A Mighty Fortress is our God," "Souls of the Righteous" by Tertius Noble and Mr. Hohmann's arrangement of the chorale "O Power of Love."

Pallbearers were Paul Enz, Carl Richert, C. W. Claassen, Abe Quiring, Herman Andres and John R. Duerksen.

Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery of Newton, Kansas under the direction of Duff & Son.

The Mennonite obituary: 1944 Apr 4 p. 5