Hoeppner, Tina (1915-1935)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 Feb 2 p. 4

Birth date: 1915

text of obituary:

Trip Home From Church Through Blizzard Proves Fatal

Searchers Find Body of Manitoba Woman Three-Fourths of a Mile From Home

Morden, Man. — Sunday night's terrible blizzard, the worst of the winter, brought grim tragedy to this Mennonite community with the discovery of 11:15 o’clock Tuesday morning, Jan. 17, of the frozen body of Tina Hoeppner, 35 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hoeppner.

The body of Miss Hoeppner, who had tried to reach her parents’ farm three miles northwest of here when the raging storm was at its worst, was found just three-quarters of a mile short of her destination.

The deceased had attended Sunday evening church service in the Pentecostal church here, as was her custom, and had apparently decided to walk home, as was also her custom. At home her family surmised, when she did not return from church, that she had remained in town with friends or her brother Peter.

Coming into town the next day the family became alarmed and after a check of all the homes where she might have visited, notified the R. C. P. officer. A hurried search was at once organized but had to be abandoned at nightfall.

By next morning a search party of about 150 persons, directed by two police officers using bloodhounds, fanned out across the fields between the Hoeppner farm and Morden. Many friends and neighbors were Included in the large party that worked in the bitter cold of 17 below zero weather with a stiff wind blowing.

About three quarters of a mile from the Hoeppner farm home Abe P. Thiessen climbed a straw stack on a neighbor's farm and spied the dark objects that proved to be Tina Hoeppner’s muff and shoes, protruding from a small snow drift.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, January 19 from the Morden Pentecostal church with burial in Hillside cemetery.

She is survived by her parents and three brothers, John and Jacob at home and Peter, living in Morden.