Regier, Marie D. Staufer (1898-1954)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1954 Apr 15 p. 6

Birth date: 1898 Dec 14

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— Mrs. Marie D. Regier, 55, wife of Rev. P. K. Regier, executive secretary of the General Conference Mennonite Church, died Thursday, April 8, at the Bethesda hospital in Goessel. She had been in ill health for some months, but had continued her work as teacher of the fifth grade in the Moundridge school until a few weeks ago. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the West Zion Mennonite church where she had assisted her husband in the pastorate from 1927 to 1941. Rev. Harris Waltner officiated. Besides her husband, she leaves a son and daughter; her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Staufer of Deer Creek, Okla.; three sisters and one brother.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1954 Apr 22 p. 9

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MRS. MARIE D. REGIER

Marie D. Regier, daughter of John and Lizzie Schnebele Staufer, was born on Dec. 14, 1898, in Deer Creek, Okla. where she spent her girlhood days and received her early education. Later she attended Bethel College at Newton, Kansas, and was graduated from the college in 1921. On August 17 of that year she was married to P. K. Regier and joined him as he continued his seminary education in Garrett Biblical Institute of Evanston, Ill., and the Witmarsum Seminary of Bluffton, Ohio.

Two children were born to them, Gladys in Wayland, Iowa, and Eugene in Moundridge, Kansas. She shared with her husband the responsibilities of pastoral work in three different charges. The first was the joint charge of the Wayland and Eicher congregations in Iowa from 1922 to 1924; the West Zion Mennonite church of Moundridge, Kansas, from 1927 to 1941; and the First Mennonite church of Reedley, Calif. from 1943 to 1950. In these charges she served in different capacities, such as superintendent of children’s and young people’s work and the Cradle Roll department, and teacher in Sunday school and daily vacation Bible school.

She derived great satisfaction in the teaching profession for which she found time along with her other duties. Among the schools in which she has taught are the Emmanuel Bible Academy of Reedley, Calif. and the public school systems of Furley, Burrton, and Moundridge, Kansas. She especially loved her fifth grade children in the Moundridge public school and one of her greatest regrets was that she could not remain with them to the end of this school year.

At an early age she was baptized upon the confession of her faith and united with the fellowship of the Deer Creek Mennonite church. Later she transferred her membership together with her husband from charge to charge, and at the time of her death was again a member of the West Zion Mennonite church.

She shared the joys and responsibilities of her home with her husband for more than 32 years. When her rapidly failing health caused her death on April 8, 1954, she had been out of the school room for less than three weeks. She has reached an age of 55 years, three months and 24 days.

She leaves to mourn her all too early departure her loving husband; a daughter, Gladys and her husband, John Vaughan, of New York City; a son, Eugene, of Denver, Colo.; her aged parents of Deer Creek, Okla.; three sisters, Leona and her husband, Elmer Lichti, of Deer Creek, Anne of Wellington, Kansas, and Freda and her husband, Edward Uhren of Norwich, Kansas; one brother, Milton, of Deer Creek, and a host of other relatives and friends.

The funeral service was held in the West Zion Mennonite church on Saturday, April 10, with Rev. H. T. Unruh and Rev. Harris Waltner officiating.

The Mennonite obituary: 1954 Apr 27 p. 27