Graber, Katie B. Flickner (1895-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Dec 23 p. 5

Birth date: 1895 May 28

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• Funeral services for Mrs. Katie Graber, 70, of Burrton were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Burrton Mennonite Church with Rev. James Gingerich, the pastor, officiating. Mrs. Graber, wife of John P. J. Graber, died Sunday at the Halstead Hospital after an illness of five months. She was the former Katie Flickner of Moundridge. Surviving in addition to her husband are five sons, 12 grandchildren, one brother and three sisters.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1966 Jan 27 p. 8

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KATIE B. FLICKNER GRABER

Katie B. Flickner Graber was born May 28, 1895 to Benjamin and Freni Guoering [sic Goering] Flickner near Moundridge, Kan., and died Dec. 19, 1965 at Halstead, Kan., age 70 years, six months and 21 days.

She was baptized on confession of faith in 1911 by Rev. C. J. Goering and received into the Eden Mennonite Church. In 1917 she transferred her membership to the First Mennonite Church of Pretty Prairie, Kan. In 1960 the family moved to Burrton, Kan. and joined the Burrton Mennonite Church of which she was a faithful member at the time of her death. She died after several months of illness.

She was married to John P. J. Graber on April 12, 1917. Six children were born to this union. Survivors were her husband John, five sons, Clarence of ElDorado, Harold of Burrton, Raymond of Weatherford, Texas, Morris of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Franklin Jack of Akron, Ohio, and 14 grandchildren. One son, Willard, one grandson, her parents, four brothers and one sister preceded her in death.

Other survivors are one brother, Andrew; three sisters, Marie, Mrs. David Schrag, Mrs. Lydia Walker, and Mrs. Jacob Flickner, five sisters-in-law and four brothers-in-law, and many relatives and friends who mourn her departure.

She was author of the "Flickner Family Records." This book covers the history of the Flickner family for a period of 152 years.