Ross, Eliza Etta Brenneman (1904-1954)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1954 Dec 30 p. 1
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Jan 13 p. 8

Birth date: 1904 Nov 8

text of obituary:

ELIZA E. ROSS

Eliza Etta, eldest daughter of Joseph C. and Alice V. (Swartzendruber) Brenneman, was born near Kalona, Iowa on the Brenneman homestead Nov 8, 1904. She departed this life on Dec. 29, 1954, at the age of 50 years, one month and 21 days. Her death was due to fatal injuries received in a car accident on U.S. Highway 59, 10 miles south of Lawrence, Kansas. She quietly slipped away a few minutes after the crash.

In her early youth she confessed Christ as her Saviour and was baptized by Sanford C. Yoder, becoming a member of the East Union Mennonite church. In this faith she faithfully and joyously served her Lord until the end.

On June 23, 1929, she was united in marriage by Sanford C. Yoder to I. Mark Ross of Elida, Ohio, where she made her home the first six months of her married life. The yearnings of her mother heart were rewarded when,in His great goodness and in answer to prayer, God placed in her arms a sweet smiling babe, only a few months old whom she names Beulah Ferne, and upon whom she lavished here mother love. The crowning joy of her earthly pleasures was the happy privilege of recently caring for her newborn grandchild in her daughter's home, toward which she had looked with great anticipation.

She was preceded in death by her parents. She leaves to mourn her departure her husband I. Mark Ross, a minister of Hesston, Kansas; her daughter, Mrs. LeRoy Guengerich, Gashland, Mo.;