Strait, Bernie Edgar (1905-1949)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1949 Aug 11 p. 3

Birth date: 1905 Nov 16

text of obituary:

BERNIE EDGAR STRAIT

Bernie Edgar Strait was born at Trinidad, Colorado Nov. 16, 1905, and passed away to the Great Beyond July 21, 1949, at the age of 43 years seven months and six days.

Funeral services were held July 25 at the Allen Reed Mortuary, Los Angeles, Calif. with the Rev. Frank T. Wedel officiating. Interment followed in Inglewood Park cemetery.

At the age of 16 he with his parents came to California. Until his entry into World War Two he operated a cleaning and dying plant in Firestone Park. In the army he served in the Italian campaign, and after his return was hospitalized and spent most of the time after the war until his death in hospitals.

In life we have the privilege of rendering service in His name to others on earth, to make other people realize what it means to be saved. Let us live so that when the Lord calls us we may be ready and may carry over the Jordan of Death a pure heart and inherit Eternal Life.

He is survived by his wife, Katheryn [sic Katherine]; two children, Mrs. Jacqueline Shaeppell and Edgar; his mother, Mrs. Joyce Strait, one brother and three sisters. His father and one brother preceded him in death. — The Family.