Dalke, Katharina (1889-1958)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Jan 23 p. 10

Birth date: 1889 Aug 2

text of obituary:

KATHARINA DALKE

It pleased the Lord of life and death to call Home our mother, Mrs. Katharina Dalke, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 10, 1957. She suffered a final stroke at 9:45 a.m. Saturday that ended in death. She had suffered several strokes before but had recovered sufficiently to take up some of her household activities again, although she remained partially paralyzed from her first attack.

It is our comfort to know that the Lord Jesus Christ was her strength and stay in her hours of trial, and that she has gone Home.

She was born at Hillsboro, Kansas on Aug. 2, 1889. She reached the age of 68 years, four months and 12 days.

On June 8, 1908, she was baptized by the late Bishop Michael Klassen at Bessie, Okla. and was received as a member in the Herold Church.

She was married to David Dalke Aug. 18, 1910, in Cordell, Okla. This marriage lasted for 47 years, three months and 26 days.

Seven children were born to them, all of whom are living. They are John of Morden, Man.; Cornelius, at home; Katie, Mrs. Foley of Phillipsburg, Kan.; Arnold of Morden; Linda, at home; Olga, Mrs. Elmer Dyck of Carman, Man.; and Edna, at home. There were 12 grandchildren, of whom one has died. Of her own family one sister, Mrs. Abram Derksen of Morden Man. remains.

In Oct. 1918 they left the States and moved to Canada. Laird, Sask. was their first stop, but the following spring, they moved to Morden, Man. where they have lived since. As the bishop of the home church had also moved to this locality and a part of his congregation too, they had their own church connection again till the death of Bishop Klassen. Then the entire congregation joined the Bergthaler Church at Morden, Man., where Mrs. Dalke was a faithful and true member until her death.

We can say with the Psalmist as in Psa. 91:1, 2, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.”