Leaman, Anna N. (1909-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Oct 18 p. 16

Birth date: 1909

text of obituary:

ANNA N. LEAMAN

Anna N. Leaman, 95, of Landis Homes Retirement Community in Lancaster, Pa., died Oct. 5, 2004. She was born to Witmer and Ella Esbenshade Barge in Sterling, Ill.

Prior to living at Landis Homes the past nine years, she had lived in Willow Street for many years.

She was married to Tobias D. Leaman for 62 years. He died in 1992.

She was a homemaker, and she also operated a poultry, egg and baked goods stand in the Philadelphia Farmers Market for many years.

Earlier in life she had worked at the former Stehli Silk Mill in Lancaster.

She was a member of Mellinger Mennonite Church in Lancaster, where she was active for many years as a Sunday school teacher and involved with the sewing circle.

She enjoyed sewing and pieced and knotted many comforters over the years for Mennonite Central Committee.

She was a great woman of prayer and was very interested in the mission work of the church. She had been a member of Farm Women Society No. 21.

Survivors include two sons, Robert B. Leaman and his wife, Fay, and John B. Leaman and his wife, Joyce, both of Lancaster; three daughters, Elnora L. Frank and her husband, Donald, of Lancaster, Dorothy L. Jantzi and her husband, Vernon, of Harrisonburg, Va., and Anna B. Kennel and her husband, David, of Willow Street; a sister, Elnora Cope of Lancaster; 12 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Tobias; a son, Donald B. Leaman; and two sister, Ethel Leaman and Alta Shenk.

Funeral services were held at Mellinger Mennonite Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.