Schmitt, Etta Salome Bartel (1929-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Jul 18 p. 12

Birth date: 1929 Feb 22

text of obituary:

ETTA S. SCHMITT

Etta Salome Schmitt, 76, of Hesston, Kan., died June 7, 2005, at Schowalter Villa. She was born Feb. 22, 1929, to Edwin and Sara (Friesen) Bartel in Drake, Sask.

She married Peter Schmitt on Oct. 1, 1948, in Drake. He preceded her in death on Feb. 24, 1993.

She moved from Canada to Goshen, Ind., in 1953, and then to Hesston in 2002. She was co-owner of Aurora Cabinet Co. in Goshen and a member of College Mennonite Church of Goshen.

Survivors include a son, Ken Schmitt and his wife, Becky, of Goshen; a daughter, Jan Orpin and her husband, Gary, of Hesston; three brothers, Erwin Bartel of Drake, Sask., Laurence Bartel of Newton and Wilmer Bartel of Lee's Summit, Mo.; three sisters, Erna Wittenberg of Vancouver, B.C., Leila Kornelsen of Saskatoon, Sask., and Myrial Wiebe of Burns; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Peter; a son, Wesley, in 1955; and a sister, Leona, in 1997.

Memorial services were held in Hesston and Goshen. Burial was in Violett Cemetery in Goshen.