Kasper, George A. (1878-1950)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 May 11 p. 6

Birth date: 1878 Feb 15

text of obituary:

GEORGE A. KASPER

George A. Kasper was born February 15, 1878, at Hillsboro, Kansas. Died in the General hospital in Hobart, Oklahoma, April 20, 1950, at 2:35 p. m. He reached the age or 72 years, two months and five days.

He was baptized July 30, 1905, by Rev. Wilhelm Ewert and joined the Lehigh, Kans. Mennonite church, south of Gotebo. When the Friedensthal church closed he transferred his membership to the Ebenezer Mennonite church of which he was a member until his death.

He was joined in holy matrimony to Mary Zacharias on October 27, 1905. In this union they were blessed with seven children, two of whom preceded him in death.

He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, five children: Mary (Mrs. Ted Janz) of Fort Cobb, Okla.; Ferd of Winton, Calif.; Rosa, Okla.; Aaron of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Harold of Gotebo, Okla., two sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law: 21 grandchildren; seven great grandchildren: five brothers, Henry of Gate, Okla., Dave of Taronto [sic Toronto], Kansas, John of Lehigh, Kanas, Lenard, of Kansas, Frank of Gate, Okla.; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Unruh, Lehigh, and Mrs. Simon Koehn of Isabella, Okla.

One son, one daughter, one daughter-in-law, one granddaughter, his father and mother, three brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.

He became ill in January 1948 with an heart ailment from which he never fully recovered. There were times when he suffered a great deal and especially during this last winter. The week prior to his death he had been feeling great deal better and he went outside to do a little work.

At Easter time when the children were home, he told them that he wouldn’t see them all again but he would see them in Glory Land, the Land which had become so real to him during the last number of months.

His last words upon his death bed were. "Marie do you see what I see?” Then mother had asked. Where? And he had pointed to the ceiling with a big smile.

Separation is painful, yet we rejoice for him, since all his tears and sufferings have ended. We are not comfortless nor sorrowful as those who have no eternal Hope. — Mrs. Mary Kasper and Children.