Megert, Theodore Emil (1955-1968)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Jun 6 p. 9

Birth date: 1955 May 23

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Oklahoma Boy Buried On 13th Birthday

Bessie, Okla. — Funeral services were held May 23 at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Corn for Theodore Megert of Bessie. He would have celebrated his 13th birthday on that date. An accident however, had claimed his life on May 20.

The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Megert, apparently was dragged to death after he became entangled in a rope which he had tied around a young colt's neck. He was found in a field across the road from the family farm. The boy was pronounced dead on arrival at the Oklahoma General Hospital in Clinton.

He was a member of the M. B. Church and a pupil in the seventh grade. Survivors include three sisters and one brother.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Jul 11 p. 10

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TED EMIL MEGERT

Ted Emil Megert was born on May 23, 1955, at Elk City, Okla. He departed this life on May 20, 1968 and was laid to rest on his birthday. He reached the age of 12 years, 11 months, and 27 days.

He received his education in the elementary school at Bessie, Okla. where he finished the 7th grade. He was a good student and made friends easily. He was loving, obedient, likable, and full of life. His parents, who reside on a farm two and a half miles east of Bessie, gave him and his brother and three sisters a beautiful Christian home. Here he could exert his talents in the things he loved to do. He was much interested in nature and likes to plant trees, shrubs, and flowers. He nurtured them by giving them water and by hoeing. Anticipating the fruit they were to bear was his greatest joy. But like these plants, all must die, and even though his life was short, it was his aim to bear fruit by living a Christian life.

Because Teddy's life was impelled greatly by his imaginative ability, he would often speak of the things he would like to be when he would become a little older. This is shown by the many things he created. He also enjoyed his Sunday school class. Through the influence of his teachers, he decided to give his life to the Lord Jesus and accordingly gave his testimony of his living faith before the church and was admitted through baptism into the M. B. Church of Corn, Okla. on Feb. 18, 1968.

On May 20 he and his parents and Nettie attended the closing picnic of the school year. Happy that school was out, he came home, took his bicycle and a rope and went across the road to a pasture where his favorite colt was grazing. He put the rope on the colt's neck. Evidently, Ted became entangled with the rope and the colt became alarmed, dragging him, which brought about a sudden end to his short life.

About 15 minutes after Ted left home, his father became alarmed that he had not returned home. When he saw the colt with the rope around its neck and Ted nowhere to be seen, a search was made which lasted about 45 minutes before he was found. He was taken to the hospital, but all efforts to revive him were of no avail.

We do not mourn without hope because we expect to meet him again in his eternal home. He leaves to mourn his parents; three sisters, Pearl, Edith, and Nettie of the home; one brother, Wilfred and wife LoRita and a little nephew, Wayne, of Bessie; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Duerksen; four uncles, three aunts, many relatives and friends. We feel a great loss, but say with Job, God has given and God has taken. — The Family.