Leisy, Anna Gertrude Penner (1875-1952)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Feb 7 p. 6

Birth date: 1875 Jun 18

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— Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Gertrude Leisy, 76, a member of the Bethel College Mennonite church, were held last Friday afternoon at the First Mennonite church. Rev. Lester Hostetler and Dr. J. H. Langenwalter conducted the service. Mrs. Leisy, born at Warnau, West Prussia on June 18, 1875, daughter of William H. and Emilie Penner, passed away at the Bethel home for aged here on Jan. 29 after a brief illness. She is survived by four children, Mrs. A. Westermeyer of St. Louis, Mrs. George McKellar of Reedley, Calif., Waldo W. Leisy of Wichita, and Roland H. Leisy of Washington, D. C., as well as four stepchildren and one brother, J. H. Penner of Beatrice, Neb.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Feb 21 p. 11

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RS. ANNA LEISY

Mrs. Anna Gertrude (Penner) Leisy was born June 18, 1875, at Warnau near Marienburg, West Prussia, Germany. Her parents were William H. and Emelia (Wiebe) Penner.

She came to the United States in 1904, to Beatrice, Nebraska. Later she took nurse’s training in the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She became a naturalized American citizen.

She married Henry Leisy of Wisner, Nebraska in 1911 and became the mother of his five children: Olga, Henry, Meta, Willard and Herbert. To this union were born: Helen, Waldo, Gertrude and Roland. Her husband, Mr. Leisy, passed away June 3, 1928. His oldest daughter Olga, Mrs. W. J. Baumgartner of Lawrence, Kansas, passed away in 1940.

The family moved to Newton, Kansas in February of 1929 where she united with the Bethel College church, where she was an active and interested member until her death.

She entered the Bethel Home for the Aged on June 3, 1946. She suffered a stroke in November 1949. Although bedfast she remained cheerful and mentally alert. She passed away suddenly January 29, 1952. Death was due to pneumonia.

She is survived by: Helen, Mrs. Adam Westermayer, Kirkwood, Mo., Waldo W., Wichita, Kansas, Gertrude, Mrs. George McKeller, Reedley, Calif., and Roland H. of Washington, D. C. Meta, Mrs. Earl Eymann, Reedley, Calif., Henry of Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone, Willard, Long Beach, Calif., and Herbert of Hackensack, Minn., their wives and husbands. She is also survived by sixteen grandchildren and a brother, J. H. Penner, Beatrice, Nebraska.