Kleinsasser, Paul P. (1877-1972)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1972Jun 22 p. 2

Birth date: 1877

text of obituary:

Former Legislator, Pastor Dies at Age 95

Freeman, S. D. — Rev. Paul P. Kleinsasser, 95, retired farmer and a former pastor and state legislator, died at his farm home near Freeman on June 6 after several years of illness.

Born in Russia in 1877, he came to the United States with his parents in 1879. He and his wife, the former Anna Wollman, moved to the present farm north of Freeman in 1905.

Rev. Kleinsasser was ordained to the ministry in the Hutterthal Mennonite Church and served there from 1909 to 1914. He was minister of the Bethany Mennonite church, Freeman, from 1919 to 1922.

He served in the state legislature at Pierre in 1907 and again in 1917, and was a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1919 to 1922.

He was a member of the Bethany Church, where the funeral was conducted June 9 by Rev. Peter G. Hofer and Rev. Levi Koehn.

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The Mennonite obituary: 1972 Aug 22 p. 496

text of obituary:

Paul W. Kleinsasser, Bethany Church, Freeman, S. D., was born March 20, 1873 [sic 1877], in Russia and died June 6.