Ensz, Elmer (1925-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Aug 7 p. 8

Birth date: 1925 Nov 17

text of obituary:

ELMER ENSZ

Elmer Ensz, 80, of Inman, Kan., died July 30, 2006, at Pleasant View Home. He was born Nov. 17, 1925, to Gerhardt D. and Lena Klassen Ensz in McPherson County.

He married Katherine Neufeld on July 27, 1947, in Inman.

He graduated from Tabor College in Hillsboro and Grace Bible Institute with a degree in pastoral studies. He was a pastor at Fayetteville, Ark., Deer Creek and Enid, Okla., Lustre and Wolf Point, Mont., Weatherford, Okla., Ulysses and Inman, Kan. He had been visitation pastor at Zoar Mennonite Brethren Church in Inman for 17 years. He was a member of Zoar MB Church.

Survivors invlude [sic] his wife, Katherine; five sons, Orie of Topeka, David of Sylmer, Calif., Marion of Shoreview, Minn., Mark of Corn, Okla., and Steve of Garden City; a daughter, Christine Ensz of Hutchinson; a brother, Arnold Ensz of Whitewater; a sister, Irene Sullivan of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Dick, Levi and Roy; and two sisters, Marie Jost and Ruth Jost.

Services were held at Zoar Mennonite Brethren Church. Burial was in Zoar Cemetery.