Rempel, Sarah (1882-1958)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Jan 16 p. 1

Birth date: 1882

text of obituary:

Deconess [sic] Called By Death at Beatrice

SISTER SARAH REMPEL SERVED IN MENNONITE HOSPITAL FOR 27 YEARS

Beatrice, Neb. — Funeral services were held at the First Mennonite Church here Friday, Jan. 10, for Sister Sarah Rempel, 75, member of the deaconess sisterhood of the Mennonite hospital who served at the hospital for 27 years before her retirement in 1945.

Sister Rempel died at the Deaconess Home on Jan. 7.

A native of Henderson, Neb., she homesteaded in Canada from 1903 to 1911, and also served for a year at the children's home and home for aged at Hillsboro, Kan. Coming to Beatrice soon after the Mennonite hospital opened, she completed her nurses training here and then received further training at the Bethesda Deaconess hospital in Cincinnati, graduating in 1918.

She is survived by one brother, Gerhard Rempel of Beatrice; one sister, Mrs. Gertrude Peters of Newport, Wash.; three half-brothers and a half-sister living in Saskatchewan; and a niece, Mrs. Louie G. Wiebe of Beatrice.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Jan 30 p. 8

text of obituary:

SISTER SARAH REMPEL

Sister Sarah Rempel, 75, long one of the well-loved corps of deaconesses at the Mennonite Hospital, Beatrice, Neb., died suddenly Jan. 7, 1958, at the Deaconess Home.

Known to thousands of patients she had served as simply “Sister Sarah,” she was born in Henderson, Neb., Sept. 28, 1882. She and her two brothers homesteaded in Canada from 1903 to 1911.

She served one year with the Children's Home and Home for the Aged in Hillsboro, Kan., before coming to the Mennonite Hospital in Beatrice on Sept. 16, 1912, little more than a year after the hospital opened. There she completed her nurses' training in 1915.

Then she completed her deaconess schooling at the Bethesda Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati, graduating in 1918, when she returned to the Beatrice Mennonite hospital where she was a key member of the nursing staff until her retirement in 1945.

Upon entering the hospital Sister Sarah was assigned to take care of the aged people who were hospitalized in the two basement rooms. After a year she began working on first floor, doing general duty.

When in 1921 the Sisters moved into their new home, a nursery was arranged and from then on Sister Sarah was in charge of this, her much loved work, and continued there until April 27, 1945.

In September of that year she took a year of rest and went to Los Angeles, Calif. where she rested and visited friends, which she enjoyed very much. On return from California Sister Sarah took up visitation work in Beatrice and made many calls among rural members of the churches.

A year ago she resigned from this work also on account of failing health.

Surviving are a brother Gerhard Rempel of Beatrice; a sister Mrs. Gertrude Peters of Newport, Wash.; three half brothers, Peter Isbrand and Henry Rempel, and one half sister, Mrs. Henry Peters, all of Saskatchewan, Canada; and a niece, Mrs. Louie G. Wiebe, Beatrice.

Prayer services were held at 1:15 p. m. Friday at Griffiths-Fox Chapel, and church services at the First Mennonite Church west of Beatrice at 2 p. m.., with interment in the church cemetery.

A memorial has been established to the Mennonite Hospital with Alvin and Henry Reimer in charge.