Lantz, Emma Joder (1842-1927)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1927 Feb 2 p. 4

Birth date: 1842 Jan 15

text of obituary:

Mrs. Emma Lantz

Mrs. Emma Lantz was born January, 15, 1842, in Pennsylvania, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Joder. She was united in marriage to Samuel Lantz at Carlock, Ill. (which was then Oak Grove), by Alexander Stue, of Bloomington, Ill., April 18, 1867. No children were born to this union. her husband preceded her in death in 1888. Both were members of the Mennonite church and Mrs. Lantz practically spent all of her life near Carlock. About five years ago she was taken to the Mennonite Sanitarium, Bloomington, where she was a patient till death relieved her an [sic] January the 7th, 1927, of infirmity and old age. She was 84 years 10 months and 22 days old at the time of her death.

Emma Jantz Joder is the last member of that family.

The funeral was held with brief services at the house of her niece, Mrs. Minnie Stucky to whose home her body was taken after death, and from Carlock Mennonite church at 2:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Jan. 9. Rev. J. H. King and W. S. Shelly officiated. The pall bearers were Messrs. Wm. and John Ernst, S. L. Stutzman, Sam Maurer, Jacob Engel, U. G. Stutzman. A quartette composed of Mrs. Clarence Stutzman, Mrs. Charles Ernst, Messrs. L. E. Schwartz, and J. K. Esh sang a number of selections including “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” “Tis Well with With [sic] My Soul,” and “The Old Rugged Cross.” Interment was made in the Lantz Cemetery. — Carlock Times.