Block, Laurena Katherin Neumann (1941-1974)

Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1974 Feb 22 p. 30

Birth date: 1941 Feb 23

text of obituary:

LAURENA KATHERIN BLOCK

Laurena was born to Helen and Dick Neumann in Calgary on February 23, 1941. With the family, she moved to B.C. The following year, Laurena was predeceased by her father in 1948, when she was eight years old.

While in her childhood, Laurena accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and master. She was baptized and joined the Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church as a teenager. After high school she spent three years studying at Bethany Bible Institute in Hepburn, Sask., where she first met Henry Isaak Block.

Laurena and Henry were married in Vancouver on July 27 , 1963. The Lord blessed their marriage with two daughters, Heather, nine, and Fern, seven, and one son Steven, aged four. Laurena will always be remembered as a kind and loving wife and mother.

The Lord permitted Laurena to become involved in a traffic accident on January 8 in Kitimat. Despite all possible help given by a wonderful medical staff, she passed away in flight to Vancouver on January 9.

She leaves to mourn her loving husband, Henry; their three children: Heather, Fern, Steven; her mother, Mrs. Helen Neumann; her three brothers and their wives; Ernie and Lorraine, Ron and Sylvia, John and Shirley; her husband's parents, Rev. and Mrs. Isaac Block; Henry's sister Rosella and husband George; his ten brothers and their wives: Albert and Ella, George and Louise, Isaac and Alvina, John and Gloria, Neil and Ruth, Ruben and Edith, Dan and Ellen, Dave and Pearl, Ben and Margaret, Art and Deanna; and his brother Harold. Also mourning Laurena's passing are many other friends and relatives.

Laurena treasured most highly Psalm 121. She exemplifies to all of us one who did indeed lift her eyes to those "hills" to which she has gone, and from which we also receive help and comfort.