Schmidt, Ella Lichti (1899-1963)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1963 Dec 26 p. 5

Birth date: 1899 Oct 18

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• Mrs. Ella Schmidt, 64, wife of Dr. Edward Schmidt of Wichita, died there Tuesday, Dec. 17, after a brief illness. Funeral services were conducted Friday at the Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church, of which she was a member, with Rev. Paul Goering officiating. Mrs. Schmidt was the former Ella Lichti of Deer Creek, Okla.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Jan 2 p. 11

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ELLA LICHTI SCHMIDT

Ella Lichti Schmidt was born to John and Lavina Lichti on Oct. 18, 1899, at Lucien, Okla.

She attended the Deer Creek, Okla. schools and graduated from the Bethel College Academy in Newton, Kan. in 1919.

She was baptized on confession of faith in Jesus Christ on May 31, 1913.

She was married on June 8, 1919, by her father, Rev. John Lichti, to Edward D. Schmidt with whom she lived until her death. Five children were born to them, three of whom died in infancy. one daughter, Naomi Marie (Mrs. Walter Grundman) of Wichita, Kan. and one son, Edward A. of Los Angeles, Calif., survive her.

For 26 years she served with her husband in the pastorates of Mennonite, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches. On Oct. 25, 1937, they came to the pastorate of the Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church in Wichita, which they served until 1940. She remained a member of this congregation until her death.

Ella was a children's teacher and worker and taught continuously in the Sunday church school until she was hospitalized. When the week day Bible school was started under the auspices of the Wichita Council of Churches she taught each year until 1962. She also served at various times as organist and pianist for the church.

She was a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Wichita Gideon Camp. Since 1941 she had been associated with her husband in her naturopathic health services.

She died on Dec. 17, 1963, after a brief illness.

Besides her daughter and son, she is survived by her husband, Edward; her sister Wilma (Mrs. Albert Jantzen) of Oraibi, Ariz.; two brothers, Milton Lichti and Elmer Lichti of Deer Creek, plus other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted in the Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church on Dec. 20, 1963, by her pastor, Rev. Paul Goering.