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Cornelsen, Elizabeth Schierling (1873-1966)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1966 Sep 15 p. 5

Birth date: 1873

text of obituary:

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• Mrs. Elizabeth Cornelsen, 93, died Sept. 8 at the Pleasant View Home, Inman, where she had resided the past four years. Services were at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zoar M. B. Church, with Rev. Edwin Ollenburger officiating. Mrs. Cornelsen, the former Elizabeth Schierling, was born in Russia and came to the Inman community with her parents at the age of three. Her husband, George F. Cornelsen, died in 1950. Surviving are two sons, two daughters, 22 grandchildren, 51, great-grandchildren, two sisters and three brothers.