Schrag, Leon (1881-1960)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1960 Aug 25 p. 6

Birth date: 1 881 May 4

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— Funeral services for Leon Schrag were held last Friday at the First Mennonite Church of Christian in Moundridge, with Rev. George Janzen officiating. Mr. Schrag, a deaf-mute and in his late 70s, was a lifetime resident of the community southwest of Moundridge.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1960 Sep 1 p. 8

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LEON SCHRAG

Leon Schrag, son of John G. and Anna Schrag, was born near Freeman, South Dakota May 4, 1881. The following year the family moved to Kansas and settled on a farm southwest of Moundridge, and on this farm he spent not only his childhood and boyhood years but it was his home for the rest of his life.

When he was just a small child he became sick with a very high fever, which robbed him of the sense of hearing and the power of speech. At the age of seven or eight years he entered the State Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb at Olathe, Kan. He made good progress in his studies and among other things also learned the trade of cobbler and baker, and became the valedictorian of his class. Having grown up on the farm he chose farming as his occupation.

In the prime of life Leon accepted Christ as his Saviour and was baptized on May 19, 1901 by Rev. Valentine Krehbiel, and became a member of the First Mennonite Church of Christian, where he retained his membership until his death. He enjoyed the study of the Bible and was regular in church attendance seven though he could not hear. This especially also for the sake of his children that they might attend the Sunday School and the church services, and learn to know, love and serve the Lord, being deeply concerned not only in their temporal, but also in their spiritual and eternal welfare.

On March 13, 1912 he was married to Eva Lois Steele, and they were permitted to share the experiences of life for a little over 48 years. The Lord blessed their home with one son and two daughters, who remember him as a kind and loving father, ever ready to do what he could for his children, and who in the declining years of life accepted with gratitude the help that his family rendered him.

In 1923 he fell from a hay stacker and suffered injuries from which he did not recover fully. From that time on his health was not the best. During the last year he was hospitalized a number of times, and on August 13 he entered Mercy Hospital in Moundridge, where he departed to be with the Lord on August 17, 1960 at the age of 79 years, three months, and 13 days. Two grandchildren preceded him in death. He leaves to cherish his memory his bereaved wife; one son Marvin and wife Bertha; two daughters, Roma and husband Philip Stucky, and Doris and husband Walter Goering; 15 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister Ida and her husband Valentine Stucky and one brother, David, and many other relatives and friends.