Linscheid, Louis H. (1903-1985)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1985 Dec 12 p. 8

Birth date: 1903

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NEWTON & VICINITY

Funeral services for Louis H. Linscheid, 82, of Reedley, Calif., were held Dec. 6 in Fresno, Calif. He was the father of Rosemary Moyer of North Newton. Other survivors include his wife, Agnetha; a son; five sisters; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1985 Dec 26 p. 11

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LOUIS H. LINSCHEID

Louis H. Linscheid, son of Jacob, Jr., and Mathilda Ewy Linscheid, was born July 12, 1903, near Butterfield, Minn., and died Dec. 6, 1985, at a hospital in Fresno, Calif, at the age of 82.

He was baptized in 1918 and joined the Butterfield Mennonite Church. He graduated from Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., in 1927.

On Aug. 7, 1927, he married Agnetha V. Tieszen of Marion, S. D. He taught rural school near Tampa, Kan., and in the Bible Academy of Hillsboro, Kan., before answering a call to serve as pastor of his home church in Butterfield.

The family moved to Freeman, S. D., in 1938, where he was pastor of Bethany Mennonite Church for six years. Later he taught industrial arts at Freeman Junior College and Academy, then entered business as a cabinet maker and continued his profession until retirement.

For many years, the family's church home was Salem Mennonite Church, rural Freeman. His ministry took many forms at the congregational and conference levels. Hunting and fishing provided recreational enjoyment for him.

He and his wife moved to Reedley, Calif., in 1979 and joined First Mennonite Church. As his wife's health declined, he assumed homemaking and gardening duties and resided in his own home until a few weeks before his death.

Survivors include his wife, Agnetha, of Sierra View Homes, Reedley; two children and their spouses, Allen and Georgia Linscheid of Reedley, and Rosemary and J. Harold Moyer of North Newton, Kan.; five sisters, Charlotte Claypool of Youngtown, Ariz., Frieda Linscheid and Emma Linscheid of Mt. Lake, Minn., Theodora Rodekuhr of Deer Creek, Minn., and Selma Nelson of Whitehall, Wis.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Memorial services were held Dec. 10, 1985, at First Mennonite Church of Reedley, with Claude Boyer officiating. Interment was at Reedley Cemetery.