Schwake, Wilhelmina van der Smissen (1841-1930)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1930 Oct 15 p. 7

Birth date: 1841

text of obituary:

Mrs. Wilhelmina Schwake

Mrs. Wilhelmina Schwake, aged 89 years, six months and 19 days died Thursday evening at 9:30 o'clock at Bethel hospital where she had been taken from the Bethel Home for the Aged as a patient.

Mrs. Schwake was a sister of Sister Hillegonda of Bethel hospital who is a veteran in the service there, and also of Rev. Carl C. van der Smissen, of Berne, Indiana. She has been a resident at the Home for the Aged for several years where she has been given the tenderest care.