Wiebe, Willard W. (1917-1967)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1967 Dec 28 p. 7

Birth date: 1917

text of obituary:

Chairman of Mission Board Called by Death At Freeman, S. D.

Freeman, S. D.—A number of co-workers and friends from a distance joined members of the Salem (South) Mennonite Church near here in the memorial services for their pastor, Rev. Willard Wiebe, conducted at the church on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 19.

Rev. Wiebe, who was chairman of the Board of Missions of the General Conference Mennonite Church, died Dec. 15 in the Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, where he had been a patient since mid-November with a rare vascular disease. He was 50 years of age.

The memorial services were conducted by Rev. Jacob J. Enz of Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., and Rev. Andrew R. Shelly of Newton, Kan., executive secretary of the Mission Board. The combined men's choruses of the church sang, and six area pastors served as casket bearers.

Rev. Wiebe held degrees from the Bible Theological Seminary of Los Angeles, Bethel College (Kansas), and Mennonite Biblical Seminary. During his 20 years in the pastoral ministry he served the Menno Mennonite Church at Ritzville, Wash., the First Mennonite Church of Mountain Lake, Minn., and the Salem Church, coming here in 1964. He became a member of the Board of Missions in 1953, and had been chairman since 1959.

Survivors include his wife, the former Lola Mae Regier; four children, Ruth Ann, John Mark, Mary Katherine, and Lois Elizabeth, all of the home; his mother, Mrs. Katie Wiebe of Canistota, S. D.; three brothers and three sisters.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Jan 11 p. 8