Enns, Margaret Reimer (1900-1983)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1983 Feb 24 p. 11

Birth date: 1900 Apr 8

text of obituary:

MARGARET ENNS

Margaret Enns was born April 8, 1900, in Tiege, Soviet Russia, to Peter and Mary Thiessen Reimer. They soon moved to Kleefeld, where her mother died when she was five. Her father remarried, and after acquiring a farm at Shoenau [sic], they moved there.

She attended the village school and intended to continue her education after graduation, but conditions during the revolution made it impossible to do so. Her father and sister died in May 1919, when nearly the whole family was struck by typhoid fever. That winter she became a Christian.

In 1920 she took nurses training in Halbstadt, and worked for a time in two local hospitals before being sent to Bethania.

She moved to Canada in 1924, where she worked for a year in Kitchener, Ont., before enrolling at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She was married to Herman Enns on Oct. 27, 1925, at Hofer's Mission in Chicago by Joseph Tschetter. She was also baptized by him.

They lived in Kitchener and Leamington, Ont., and Coaldale, Alta., before moving to Newton, Kan., and then to Buhler, where they joined the Mennonite Brethren church. She taught a Sunday school class for 35 years at the church and at Sunshine Home.

She died Feb. 8, 1983. Services were held at the Buhler MB Church on Feb. 11. She is survived by her husband; one son and daughter-in-law, Harry and Selma of Buhler, and their three children; three daughters, Margaret of Chicago, Elsie and husband Donald Steelberg and four sons of Wadsworth, Ohio, Ramona and husband Maurizio Binci and two children of Naples, Italy; one brother, David, one sister, Maria, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth, all in Canada; one brother, Henry, and two sisters, Susie Hoepner and Tina Martens, all in Russia. Two brothers preceded her in death in slave labor camps in Russia.