Tieszen, Jeanette Annabelle Miller (1886-1964)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Feb 27 p. 8

Birth date: 1886 Aug 12

text of obituary:

MRS. HENRY F. TIESZEN

Mrs. Henry F. Tieszen, (nee Jeanette Annabelle Miller), daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Miller, was born on Aug. 12, 1886 at Farmersburg, Iowa.

She attended elementary rural school of Farmersburg. She took her teacher's training at Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and Highland Park College, Des Moines, iowa. She taught school for several years in Iowa, after which she continued her teaching in South Dakota and Montana.

On Dec. 22, 1915, she was united in holy matrimony to Henry F. Tieszen. After five years of homesteading they moved to Marion, S. D. where they had resided ever since.

Mrs. Tieszen made confession of her faith in Jesus Christ in the Evangelical Church of Everly, Ia. in 1915. She united with the Bethesda Mennonite Church of Marion in May of 1950. She had a world-wide interest in the work of the church, and was a faithful teacher for many years.

Mrs. Tieszen had enjoyed a full life with good health until five years ago, when she suffered a minor heart attack. Her health gradually began to decline, and she found it necessary within recent months to be confined considerably to the family home. She passed away Jan. 11, 1964, having reached the age of 77 years and five months.

She leaves to mourn her passing her husband, Henry; two daughters, Harriet (Mrs. Emmett Botelho) of Juneau, Alaska, and Ruth (Mrs. Henry Schoon) of Boyden, Ia.; two sons, Lowell of Yankton, and Dale of Lompoc, Calif.; ten grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Erickson of Canton, Miss Ella Miller of Mason City, Ia.; Miss Norma Miller of Monona, Ia.; and one brother, Grover Miller of Monona, Ia. She was preceded in death by her parents, one infant son, and three sisters.

Burial was in the Bethesda Cemetery.

The Mennonite obituary: 1964 Feb 4 p. 75