Regier, Mary Wall (1859-1947)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Oct 16 p. 3

Birth date: 1859 Dec 6

text of obituary:

MRS. CORNELIUS REGIER

One day last week a small baby was born in the Goessel hospital. A few rooms removed an old grandmother lay dying. The beginning and end of life, side by side. Only a few days earlier this old grandmother, our mother, was still in the Old People's Home where she had been the last two and one half years. Some of us had been called over, because she had gotten sick. We could get no response out of her, so we did what she enjoyed more than anything else on earth. We read to her from the last two chapters of the book of Revelation.

Will she respond? Is there still consciousness in her mind? "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." "Do you understand, mother?" "Yes, yes" she said. "And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." "Do I read loud enough?" "O, yes" she replied. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son . . . And let him that is athirst come." And five days later she came, forever to be with him whom she had always trusted.

Our mother, Mary Wall Regier, was born in the village of Altonau, Russia, on December 6, 1859. When she was nine or ten years old the family moved to the village of Alexenderkron