Lepp, Agatha Quiring (1877-1959)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Aug 27 p. 8

Birth date: 1877 Feb 11

text of obituary:

MRS. JACOB LEPP

Mrs. Jacob Lepp passed away on Friday morning, July 24, at Bethel hospital in Mr. Lake, Minn. where she had been hospitalized for six weeks. Mrs. Lepp received third degree burns in an accident in her home on June13. She was doing some baking when her apron caught fire, and approximately one-third of her body was burned. She was 82 years old.

Funeral services were conducted Monday, July 27, with family services at the Johnson chapel in Mt. Lake at 1:30 p.m., I. J. Dick officiating. Public services were held at 2 o'clock at the First Mennonite church of Mt. Lake with Rev. Peter Tschetter officiating. Special music was furnished by the ladies' sextet of the church with Mrs. C. J. Friesen as organist. Interment was made in Mt. Lake cemetary [sic].

Mrs. Jacob Lepp was born Agatha Quiring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Quiring, on Feb. 11, 1877, at Lamberton, Minn. She was baptized on confession of her faith by her uncle, Rev. Henry Quiring, in 1879, and stayed true to her faith until the Lord took her Home.

She was married to Jacob P. Lepp on Nov. 11, 1897, and this union was blessed with eight children, one preceding her in death. Mr. and Mrs. Lepp farmed in the Butterfield area before retiring and moving to the village.

Survivors include her husband and seven children, Elizabeth, Mrs. John Heppner of Munich, N. Dak., Peter of Butterfield, Minn., Agatha, Mrs. Diedrich Heppner of Warroad, Minn., Sara, Mrs. John Harder of Warroad, Paul of Dallas, Oregon, Susan, Mrs. Ted Friesen of Butterfield, and Kate, Mrs. John Block of Eugene, Ore. She is also survived by 30 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren. One grandson and two great-grandchildren preceded her in death.

She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and she will be sorely missed, but we know that some day we shall see her again where there will be no more pain or suffering, no more tears or sorrows. What a happy reunion that will be!