Kliewer, Christina Horsch (1875-1951)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 30 Aug 1951 p. 1

Birth date: 1875

text of obituary:

Two Missionaries Called Away in Death

Mrs. Agnes Wiens & Mrs. Christina Kliewer Served in India & Oklahoma

Two widely known retired missionaries died here within the period of a week when Mrs. Agnes Harder Wiens, 67, wife of the late Rev. P J. Wiens, and Mrs. Christina Horsch Kliewer, 76, wife of the late Rev. H. J. Kliewer, were called to their eternal reward.

Mrs. Wiens, a missionary in India with her husband for over 31 years, died Friday, Aug. 17. Mrs. Kliewer died Saturday, Aug. 25. She and her husband had been missionaries among the Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma for over 40 years. The two retired workers spent their last years in the Bethel Home for Aged.

Funeral services for Mrs. Wiens were held at 10 a.m., Aug. 20, at the First Mennonite church, in charge of Dr. J. H. Langenwalter, who was assisted by Rev. D. J. Unruh and Rev. S. J. Goering. Dr. Langenwalter also conducted the services for Mrs. Kliewer held at 10 a.m., Aug. 27, in the chapel of the Bethel Home for Aged. Both were laid to their final earthly resting place in Greenwood cemetery.

Further details of the two eventful and consecrated Christian lives will be given in the obituaries to be published next week.