Voth, Leo (1899-1972)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1972 Mar 16 p. 11

Birth date: 1899 Dec 10

LEO VOTH

Leo Voth was born on Dec. 10, 1899, in Blain County near Eagle City, Okla. to Andrew and Katie Nickel Voth. They moved to a farm in Pleasant Township, Kansas in May 1901, where Leo resided all of his life until Aug. 16, 1971, when he and his wife moved to Newton. He died at the Bethel Hospital on Jan. 16, 1972.

He was baptized on May 26, 1918, in the Grace Hill Mennonite Church where he remained a faithful member throughout his life. That same year he also graduated from the Hillsboro Preparatory School, and in 1922 he took a short course at Manhattan.

He married Sarah Kliewer on July 28, 1927. She survives him as does a daughter Lola, Mrs. Gerald Schmidt of Oak Park, Ill. with her husband and three children, and a son, Arlo, of the grace hill community, with his wife Ann and three children. His only sister, Lydia Rilling, preceded him in death in 1964.

A farmer all of his life, Leo loved the land. Major surgery slowed him down a year ago, and he felt privileged to be able to take a much-appreciated trip to Nova Scotia this past autumn.

He was a man of irreproachable integrity, a quiet and unassuming husband and father, and a loving grandfather. He faced the end as a man of faith, holding his hope of heaven in complete confidence of God's love and mercy.