Kliewer, Matilda Suderman (1902-1974)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 26 Dec 1974 p. 11

Birth date: 1902

text of obituary:

MATILDA SUDERMAN KLIEWER

Matilda Suderman Kliewer, daughter of Edward and Agnes Flaming Suderman, began this life at Corn, Okla on March 31, 1902 and finished her course of love and labor Nov. 16, 1974. Her sojourn here on earth was 71 years.

Among her earliest recollections was the loss of her father through death on Feb. 12, 1905. Her educational training was received at the Enterprise and Sparta public schools.

At the ae of 13 she came to a living faith in Jesus Christ and on July 25, 1915 was baptized with 18 other young people and received into the Mennonite Brethren Church of Corn, where she remained a faithful member all her life.

On Aug. 20, 1922 she married Willie Kliewer in a double wedding ceremony with her sister Anna and H. W. Vogt. The Lord blessed this union with four sons and two daughters. One son, Jacob, died in infancy.

Our parents settled on a farm northwest of Corn. Two years later they acquired a farm two miles west of Corn, the home place of her grandfather, H. A. Flaming. This was a happy home for them the rest of their lives.