Reimer, Henry H. (1884-1949)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1949 Jul 14 p. 3

Birth date: 1884 Feb 22

text of obituary:

HENRY H. REIMER

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Henry H. Reimer, son of the late Rev. Henry and Justina Reimer, was born February 22, 1884, near Lehigh, Kansas, and passed away on June 25, 1949, at the Memorial hospital, Upland, California, at the age 65 years, four months and three days.

He received his elementary education in a rural school at Lehigh and later attended the H. D. Penner school in Hillsboro.

At the opening of the Indian territory (Okla.), he with his parents moved onto a claim near Mt. View, but returned to Bethel college for a course in business. In 1909 he came to Upland, Cal. where on Sept. 4, 1910, he was married to Susie Isaac.

Upon confession of faith he was baptized at Pentecost in 1905 at the Ebenezer Mennonite church near Mt. View and was a member there until he transferred to Upland, California Mennonite church, where he remained a loyal and faithful member to the end.

Due to the serious illness and death of his father in 1920 he returned to Mt. View and remained there for six and a half years, then again came back to Upland with his family and resided here until his passing.

He operated a grocery store here but due to ill health retired in 1942. In 1943 he underwent major surgery from which he never fully regained his strength, but was able at times to occupy himself with light work. By spring of this year he had developed a complication of a heart ailment and hardening of the arteries which definitely disabled him for any work.

After a prolonged bed-rest he was able to be up and about and able to attend church services. With much anticipation he looked forward to the Pacific district conference, which was to convene from June 23 to June 26. It was on the night of the first session of the conference that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while visiting with friends after the service. He was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed within two days.

Funeral services were conduced at the First Mennonite church with Rev. M. A. Niswander officiating, using the text chosen by the deceased which had sustained him through illness and sorrow, “Not my will but thine be done.” Entombment took place in the Bellvue Mausoleum, Ontario, Cal.

Those surviving him are his bereaved widow and two daughters, Ruth, wife of F. B. Miller, Long Beach, and Trudi, wife of F. F. Schmidt, manhattan Beach, Calif.; also three grandsons, Larry and Donovan Miller and Gregory Schmidt. Beside the immediate family are two brothers, A. H. Reimer of Hutchinson and Ferd Reimer at Bethesda Home, Goessel, Kansas; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Brandt, mt. View, Okla., Mrs. Lena Nichelson, Branson, Kans., Mrs. Bertha Jantz, Custer, and Mrs. Susie Koehn, Ferndale, Washington, beside a host of friends who mourn his loss.

The Mennonite obituary: 1949 Aug 2 p. 11