Rilling, Lydia Catherine Voth (1895-1964)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Sep 3 p. 5

Birth date: 1895 Jul 22

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● Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia Catherine Rilling, 69, wife of Fred Rilling, were held Wednesday forenoon at the First Mennonite Church. Rev. Arnold Epp, the pastor, officiated. Mrs. Rilling died early Monday at Bethel Deaconess Hospital after a long illness. The former Lydia Voth, she grew up in the Grace Hill community and taught school before her marriage to Mr. Rilling in 1929. He survives, as does a brother, Leo Voth of Whitewater.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Oct 22 p. 8

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MRS. FRED A. RILLING

Lydia, wife of Fred A. Rilling, was born July 22, 1895 to Katie (Nickel) and Andrew S. Voth at Dyke, now Eagle City, Okla. In 1901 the family moved to Kansas and located nine miles east of Newton in the Grace Hill community, where the deceased grew to womanhood.

Lydia received her schooling in District 38 of Harvey County, the Hillsboro Preparatory School, Bethel Academy, and was a graduate of Emporia State Teachers College. For a number of years she devoted her time to the teaching profession in the Moundridge and Whitewater communities, and the Hutchinson city schools.

On June 16, 1912 she was baptized by Rev. G. N. Harms and became a member of the Grace Hill Mennonite Church. After her marriage her membership was transferred to the First Mennonite Church of Garden Township.

On Sept. 1, 1929, she was united to Fred A. Rilling in marriage. They established their home on a farm west of Hesston, where they resided until August 1957, when they retired and moved to Newton. Soon thereafter they transferred their church membership from the Garden Church to the First Mennonite of Newton. Lydia was happy in various areas of church service. Along with her husband they occasionally undertook mission projects which proved rewarding and challenging to them.

Lydia was in failing health for several months. She was preceded in death by her parents and is survived by her husband Fred; her brother Leo and wife Sarah; their children, Lola and family of Wichita and Arlo and family living in her childhood home; also four sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law and many friends.

The Mennonite obituary: 1964 Oct 20 p. 655