Horn, Marie Abrahams (1846-1932)

Mennonitische Rundschau obituary: 1932 Feb 10 p. 9

Birth date: 1846 Mar 4

Text of obituary

English translation:

Life record

Marie Horn, daughter of Heinrich and Anna Abram, was born on Mar. 4, 1846 in the village of Schulwiese, Marienwerder, Germany. Here she spent her childhood and enjoyed her schooling. In 1858, she emigrated with her parents to Russia, where they settled in the village of Fresenheim, Am Trakt. Here in 1860, she was baptized by Elder David Hamm and accepted into the congregation. In 1868, she married Peter Horn, they then lived in the village of Hahnsau. After some time, however, the military freedom was taken away in Russia, in that young men had to take on forestry service; as a result, they moved with many others to Asia in 1881. However, it was difficult there in earthly terms, so they only stayed three years and emigrated to America, where they first lived for three years in Buhler, Kansas, then six years in Beatrice, Nebraska. In the spring of 1894, they moved to Oklahoma, near Cordell, where they had a difficult start; it got better later. The parents joined the Herold congregation at its founding, and the deceased remained a member until her death. Her marriage was blessed with four sons and five daughters, two daughters died in tender childhood. On April 15, 1918, the parents celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Father died in January of the following year, and she lived in widowhood for almost thirteen years. She lived in her cottage at her old homestead with her children on the farm; but often walked all week long with the other children, who all lived nearby. Although she often had constricted breathing and was plagued with dizziness quite a bit, and her hearing was already somewhat weak, she was still generally spry for her age, so that she was still able to travel nearly everywhere with us. On Sunday, Dec. 13, she suffered a stroke, her right side was paralyzed, also her speech was disrupted, however we could still understand a lot from her. She seemed to improve in the first few days, but then slowly declined. She was restless, and started to have a lot of shortness of breath. It was hard to watch. On Thursday evening, she became calmer. On Friday evening, Dec. 18, at 15 minutes after eight o’clock, the precious mother breathed her last. She reached the age of 85 years, 9 months and 14 days. She clung to her Savior in life, and he was her comfort even in old age. She hoped and believed that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ she would enter into eternal bliss. Exactly three months earlier, on Sept. 18, her eldest daughter Marie (wife of Abr. Regier) preceded her in death. She followed her quickly. She leaves behind four sons and three daughters, three sons-in-law and four daughters-in-law, thirty-five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Her earthly shell was buried next to her husband in the Herold Church cemetery. Elder Jacob Jantzen gave the funeral sermon; he read Psalm 39 as an introduction. Then he spoke beautiful and comforting words about 2 Corinthians 5:1. At the grave, J. A. Harms read another passage and prayed. We mourn, but the Lord strengthens and comforts us with the hope of eternal life, that we will meet again where there will be no more pain and crying, and where God will wipe away all tears from our eyes.

The children.

Per request from Herold [Church].

GRANDMA #391857