Guengerich, Verna Linda Enns (1910-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Mar 8 p. 12

Birth date: 1910 Sep 7

text of obituary:

VERNA GUENGERICH

Verna Linda (Enns) Guengerich, 93, died Feb. 3, 2004, at Aurora (Colo.) Care Center. She was born Sept. 7, 1910, to Isaac P. and Katherine F. (Unger) Enns near Rocky Ford.

She graduated from Cheraw High School in 1926. She then attended Colorado State Normal School in Greeley, where she received teaching credentials in commercial studies and math in 1928.

After graduating, she joined the staff of Hesston (Kan.) College and Academy. After a year on staff, she went to Goshen (Ind.) College and received a bachelor of science in education degree in 1933. She then rejoined Hesston College staff and taught through spring of 1940.

On Sept. 1, 1938, she married Willard Eldon Guengerich at her parent’s home near Cheraw. In the summer of 1940, they moved to Colorado and lived there, except for two years, the rest of her life. They lived in Glenwood Springs from 1955 to 2000.

She was instrumental in starting a women’s Bible study class in Glenwood Springs. She continued with the class until she lost her eyesight in the mid-1990s.

Survivors include her husband, Willard; a son, Vernard and his wife, Florence, of Goshen; two daughters, Elaine Kauffman and her husband, Dick, of Aurora, and Joelene Johnson and her husband, Doug, of Kamuela, Hawaii; a brother, Paul Enns of Cheraw; a sister, Leona Schulz of Hollister, Calif.; five grandsons; a granddaughter and a great-grandson.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Genelle Eileen, on Nov. 8, 1970; four brothers, Elvin Loren, Elmer, Dan and Karl; and two sisters, Ida Pearl Enns and Kathryn Bartel.

Memorial services were held at Farnum-Holt Funeral Chapel in Glenwood Springs and Peace Mennonite Community Church in Aurora. Burial was in Glenwood Springs.