Sommer, Selma C. Suter (1885-1948)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Aug 19 p. 5

Birth date: 1885

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— Funeral services were conducted at the Wayland. Iowa, Mennonite church on Sunday, Aug. 8, for Mrs. Selma C. Sommer, 63, who passed away Aug. 4 during a heart attack at the University hospital, Iowa City, where she was under treatment for asthma. Her son, Otto Sommer of North Newton, went to Wayland for the funeral. Mrs. Sommer had many friends here, having visited the Newton vicinity on a number of occasions, and spent a number of weeks at the home of her son here earlier this summer.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Sep 2 p. 3, 6

text of obituary:

MRS. SELMA SOMMER

Mrs. Selma C. Sommer, 63, died in the University hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, at 10:10 p.m. on August 4. She died unexpectedly only 10 minutes after being stricken with a severe heart attack. He [sic] was in the hospital for treatment of asthma, from which she had been suffering for several years.

Born at Pandora, Ohio on May 27, 1885, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Suter. She was married to Chris Sommer September 22, 1916. He died in 1924.

Mrs. Sommer taught school for ten years at Wayland, Iowa, She later taught for short periods in several other schools.

She is survived by three children: Irvin, of Alameda, Calif.; Otto, of North Newton, Kans.; and Mrs. Harry Detwiler, of Washington Iowa. Seven brothers and sisters, Gilbert of Pandora, Edwin of Lima, O., Otto of Wayland, Iowa, Peter of Arlington, Ohio, Miss Martha Suter, Mrs. L. A. Amstutz, and Mrs. Wilbert Schumacher, all of Pandora, also survive. One brother, Homer, is deceased.

Mrs. Sommer was a member of the Grace Mennonite church, Pandora. Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday by Rev. E. S. Mullet at the Mennonite church at Wayland, Iowa, and interment was at the Eicher cemetery, near Wayland. The pall bearers and a mixed quartet which sang at the funeral were all former students of Mrs. Sommer.