Baehr, Jacob Peter (1881-1981)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1981 Apr 16 p. 8

Birth date: 1881

text of obituary:

NEWTON & VICINITY

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● Jacob Peter Baehr, formerly of North Newton, died at Schowalter Villa in Hesston Apr. 10 at the age of 100. Baehr had been the subject of a recent feature article in the Review highlighting his 100th birthday March 28. He was born in Germany and had married Edna Martin in 1912. She died in 1970. Survivors include four sons, Paul of Chicago, Ill.; Karl of Garden City, Rufus of Evanston, Ill. and Herbert of Fillmore, Calif.; one daughter, Ruth Shephard of Fitchburg, Mass.; a sister, Elizabeth Moser of Bluffton, Ohio; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services were conducted at the Bethel College Mennonite Church Apr. 12 by John A. Esau and Donald Kaufman.