Hiebert, Helen Marie Peters (1941-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Jul 8 p. 3

Birth date: 1941 Jun 18

text of obituary:

YOUNG FARM WIFE KILLED IN MANITOBA TRACTOR ACCIDENT

Winnipeg, Man. — Funeral services were held at the Winkler M. B. Church on June18 for Mrs. Helen Marie Hiebert, 23, who died in a tractor accident June 14.

Mrs. Hiebert, wife of Norman Hiebert of Elm Creek, Man., failed to make the turn from the lane onto a municipal road. The tractor rolled into thee ditch and she suffered a fractured skull.

Surviving in addition to her husband is a 10-month-old son.

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Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1965 Jul 2 p. 18

text of obituary:

(MRS.) HELEN MARIE HIEBERT

Helen Marie Hiebert (nee Peters) was born June 18, 1941 at Winkler, Manitoba, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben E. Peters. She attended Burwalde Public School and later Winkler High School and followed this with a course in practical nursing, graduating in May, 1962. She nursed in Winnipeg and later at St. Claude, Man.

Helen accepted Christ as personal Saviour when she was 15 years and followed the Lord in baptism soon after. She became a member of the Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church where she served as pianist and sang in the choir. She also taught Sunday school at Burwalde.

In May, 1962 she was married to Norman L. Hiebert with whom she shared over three years of wedded life. The Lord blessed them with one son, Stanley Richard, born August 18, 1964. They were expecting another child in August of this year. With her husband she moved to Elm Creek in 1963 joining the Gospel Light Church at Carman. Here she served as church pianist.

On Monday, June 14, while her son was resting, she took the tractor to get the mail from the box about 1/8 mile from the yard. Apparently, the tractor failed to make a turn and overturned trapping her beneath it. She was found under the tractor by the driver of the local school bus. She had died instantly as a result of a skull fracture. Her husband was working on a farm five miles distant at the time of the accident.

She is survived by her husband; a ten-month old son, Stanley; her parents, the Ben E. Peters of Winkler; two sisters, Ella, (Mrs. Edwin Rempel) of Niverville and Elsie (Mrs. Jack Klassen) of Grand Rapids; two brothers, Jake of Winnipeg and Ben of Elm Creek; and many relatives and friends. She was four days short of 24 years at the time of her death.

Funeral services were conducted in the Winkler Church with the ministering brethren John Unger of Carman and Herman Lenzmann of Winkler speaking. Rev. Unger based his message of comfort, "The Christian's Hope", on the passage from 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 German on the theme "Wherefore be ye Ready". A memorial prayer service was conducted for the family in the Carman Church before the funeral. There Rev. John Unger spoke a consoling message on "Our Heavenly Home." The family sorrows but with the hope of someday being re-united with the departed loved one in eternity.