Schmidt, Mildred Ruth Jarboe (1929-2004)

Newton Kansan obituary: 2004 Sep 30 p. 2, 2004 Oct 4 p. 2

Birth date: 1929 Mar 19

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Dec 6 p. 8

text of obituary:

MILDRED RUTH SCHMIDT

Mildred Ruth Schmidt, 75, of Waverly, Kan., died Sept. 28, 2004, at University Medical Center in Kansas City. She was born March 19, 1929, to Henry Isaac and Bertha Elizabeth Roesch Jarboe near Iuka.

In 1941 she was baptized and joined the Dunkard Brethren Church near Hasty, Colo., where her father was a minister.

On May 15, 1955, she married Esley Earl Schmidt in Grandview, Mo.

She attended Hesston College and the La Junta (Colo.) Mennonite School of Nursing, where she received her RN degree. During her nursing career, she worked at the hospital in Harrisonville, Mo., and in a doctor's office in Grandview, Mo. While raising her family, she was employed in the Coffey County Health Office in Burlington.

She visited Canada, Mexico, Australia and nine countries in Europe. She and her husband placed and supervised more than 200 foreign exchange students attending Kansas high schools, and created a memorial scholarship fund for those students.

In 2003, she participated in a scientific medical study conducted on myasthenia gravis patients by Kansas University and Duke University and other institutions, and subsequently was hospitalized numerous times.

Survivors include her husband, Esley Earl Schmidt; four children, Rick Linn Schmidt and his wife, Cindy, of Lyndon, Jay Darwin Schmidt and his wife, Carolee, of Waverly, Lori Lee Fischer and her husband, Terry, of Waverly, and Neal Dean Schmidt and his fiance, Tammy Kolacny, of Pueblo, Colo.; a sister, Twila Irene Rife of Papillion, Neb.; and eight grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Thelma May Jarboe; and a brother, Quentin Robert Jarboe.

A memorial service was held at Feltner Funeral Home in Lyndon. Burial will be in Tabor Mennonite Church Cemetery north of Newton.