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Peters, Elizabeth (1925-1947)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Mar 13 p. 1

Birth date: 1925

text of obituary:

Find Frozen Body Of Young Woman Lost In Blizzard

ELIZABETH PETERS, 22, LOST TRYING TO REACH HOME NEAR WINKLER, MAN.

Winkler, Manitoba. — The search for Miss Elizabeth Peters, 22-year-old daughter of Aaron G. Peters of this community who disappeared on Saturday night, Feb. 22, after alighting from a Grey Goose bus here, ended just one week later when her frozen body was found two miles east of town on a windswept, ploughed field.

The discovery was made by a party of searchers under the direction of Julius Dyck of Plum Coulee. For several days parties of fully 200 local residents had been scouring the surrounding countryside for the missing woman.

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