Peters, Anna Esau (1865-1951)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1951 Dec 27 p. 8

Birth date: 1865 Dec 30

text of obituary:

MRS. JACOB F. PETERS

Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob F. Peters, 86, were held at the M.B. church of Winkler, Manitoba on Sunday afternoon, December 9, with Rev. G. D. Pries, assisted by Rev. Abram Loewen, Newton Siding, and Rev. H. S. Voth, Winkler, officiating.

Born Anna Esau in South Russia, December 30, 1865, the deceased lost her father at the age of four and emigrated to Inman, Kansas, with her mother in 1876 where she joined the K. M. B. church in 1882. She was married to Mr. Peters in 1889 and in 1918 she moved to Clairmont in the Peace River district of northern Alberta with her family. Five years later the family moved to the Burwalde district north of Winkler.

Speaking on Ps. 39: 5-6, Rev. Loewen revealed that he and the deceased grew up in neighboring homes in a south Russian village. Rev. Voth, with Ps. 94:18-19 as a text, dwelt on her full life of activity and Christian service, pointing out that visitors to her sick room during the past ten years always came away spiritually comforted by her devout faith and apt quotations of hymns and Bible verses. The songs rendered during the service by the church choir, directed by J. P. Redekopp, were the choice of the deceased and included Ich denk so gern an Mein Ewiges Heim, Hier auf Erden bin Ich ein Pilger, and Ein Hein im Licht.

Mrs. Peters was predeceased by her husband in 1939 while her daughter Nettie, Mrs. John Janzen, perished with her child in the severe snow storm that struck this community the evening of Saturday, March 15, 1941.

The deceased is survived by nine children: Jacob, Abram and John in Kansas; Henry at Clairmont, Alberta: Ben, Frank, Mary (Mrs. H. H. Janzen), and Tina (Mrs. Geo. Rempel), in Burwalde; and Annie at home, also in Burwalde; by 39 grandchildren and 39 great grandchildren.

The pallbearers were John Labun, J. L. Dyck, P. W. Klassen, F. W. Enns, Isaac Voth and P. P. Nickel.