Jost, Marie Franz (1915-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jun 28 p. 8

Birth date: 1915 Apr 26

text of obituary:

MARIE JOST

Marie Jost, 89, died June 10, 2004, at the Bethesda nursing home in Goessel, Kan. She was born April 26, 1915, to David J. Franz and Tina Reimer Franz in McPherson County.

Her mother died when she was 12, and she took on parenting responsibilities for her younger siblings until her father remarried.

She grew up on the family farm in the Buhler area and attended public schools there. Later she attended Tabor College in Hillsboro, where she met her future husband, Harold B. Jost. After her schooling ended, she taught school at Hope Valley School and the Gnadenau School in the Hillsboro area.

She married Harold B. Jost on April 25, 1943, at Buhler.

Throughout her adult life she was a homemaker and mother, and she also served as a Sunday school teacher for adult groups at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church, a role which she continued until she was overtaken by health problems in the last half-year. She also worked for a number of years at Mennonite Brethren Publishing House and volunteered at the Etcetera shop in Hillsboro.

Survivors include her husband, Harold; two sons, Howard and his wife, Shanti, of Calcutta, India, and Loren and his wife, Katy, of Riverton, Wyo.; two daughters, Annette Albrecht and her husband, Wayne, of Richardson, Texas, and Christine Harms and her husband, Sid, of San Mateo, Calif.; two sisters, Margaret Ratzlaff and Rubena Suderman; a brother, Bob Franz; and nine grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by brothers Elbert and John Franz and stepbrothers Bill and Art Flaming.

Memorial services were held at the Parkview MB Church. Burial was in the old Gnadenau Cemetery, south of Hillsboro.