Reimer, Lenora Mae (1923-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Aug 17 p. 9

Birth date: 1923 Aug 21

text of obituary:

LENORA MAE REIMER

Lenore Mae Reimer, 85, of the Phoenix, Ariz., area, died July 26, 2009, at Encore Senior Village of Paradise Valley due to a malignant brain tumor. She was born Aug. 21, 1923, to John S. and Elizabeth Pankratz Reimer on a farm near Lehigh, Kan.

She received her elementary education in the Springfield School and attended Goessel Rural High School, graduating in 1942. She later entered nurses training at St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Wichita, Kan., graduating in 1952. She also spent one year in voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee.

On June 1, 1941, she was baptized upon her confession of sin and profession of faith and became a member of Goessel Mennonite Church. Later she transferred her membership to First Mennonite Church of McPherson, Kan. After moving to California in 1955, she transferred her membership to Bethel Community Church in Santa Fe Springs.

She spent 33 years in California as a registered nurse, caring for sick and suffering humanity. In 1988 she moved to Phoenix to make her home at Glencroft-North Retirement Center, which later became Baptist Village North.

Survivors include her only sister, Mary Jane Swartzendruber and her husband, Paul, of Phoenix; a nephew, John Swartzendruber, and a niece, Susan Smith, both of Mississippi.