Mierau, Anna Boehm (1876-1952)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Oct 23 p. 6

Birth date: 1876 Oct 2

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— Funeral services were held at the Bethel home for aged and the First Mennonite church Tuesday forenoon for Mrs. Anna Mierau, 76, who passed away at the Bethel hospital Friday. Born in Westfalen, Germany, she was a pioneer resident of Harvey county, living in the Halstead and Newton communities. She had lived at the home for aged here since 1938, and suffered a fractured hip in a fall on Oct. 6. Three sisters and four brothers survive.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Oct 30 p. 9

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MRS. ANNA MIERAU

Mrs. Anna Boehm Mierau daughter of Amand and Ernestine Boehm, was born October 2, 1876 at Westpfalen, South Germany. When she was five years old she came with her parents to America. The first two years they lived in Texas, after which they moved to a farm south of Halstead, Kans.

On October 6, 1896, she was married to Dietrich H. Mierau with whom she shared life’s joys and sorrows for almost 43 years. Mr. Mierau died October 4, 1939 and was buried on their 43rd wedding anniversary. To this union two children were born, a daughter Susanne and a son Henry. Both children died in 1900 within three months of each other, Susanne at the age of three years and Henry at three months.

In her infancy she was baptized in the Roman Catholic faith. On November 12, 1896, she was baptized on confession of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour from sin and became a member of the Halstead Mennonite church, Halstead, Kansas. In 1910 she and her husband transferred their membership to the First Mennonite church in Newton where she remained a member until the time of her death.

In August 1938 she and her husband came to make their home at the Bethel Home for the Aged. Here Mr. Mierau died about fourteen months later. Mrs. Mierau remained at this home until the time of her death. On October 6 of this year (her fifty-sixth wedding anniversary) she fell and fractured her hip. On October 13 she died, aged 76 years and 11 days.

Besides her two children and her husband, two brothers, Amand and Oscar, and one sister Ernestine (Mrs. Posey) preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn her departure three sisters, Mrs. Ida Mackey, Enid, Okla., Mrs. Alma Dittner, Nash, Okla., Mrs. Mary Copper, Independence, Oregon and four brothers William, Medford, Okla., Paul, Henry and Herman of Nash, Okla., 34 nieces and nephews, one step-sister, one step brother, five sisters-in-law, and two brothers-in-law and many other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Mierau was a quiet, devout soul who loved her Bible, her Saviour and the hymns of the church. In the last few years she frequently expressed her longing to be with her Saviour and her loved ones who had gone on before.