Ummel, Adel Amstutz (1868-1947)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Jul 17 p. 3

Birth date: 1868 May 6

text of obituary:

MRS. ADEL AMSTUTZ UMMEL

Adel Amstutz Ummel, daughter of Ulrich and Marian Amstutz, was born near Berne, Switzerland, May 8, 1868, and died at her home near Ransom, Kansas, on June 29, 1947, at the age of 79 years, 1 month and 22 days.

When Mrs. Ummel was two years old, her parents started to America with her and her baby sister, who died en route. They settled at Nodaway county, Missouri, later moving to Gentry county in the same state. It was not until 1887 that they came to Kansas, making their home in the Ransom community where Mrs. Ummel has lived ever since.

On December 19, 1889, she was married to David Ummel. Of the seven children born into this home, five died in infancy. In 1898 the Ummel’s took a foster child into their home and Gertrude became as true a daughter to them as any parents could desire.

In early youth Mrs. Ummel joined the Mennonite church and through the years has been a faithful and member in the Ransom church. Governed always by the highest ideals and Christian principles, she lived an exemplary life and exerted a good influence upon all who knew her.

Mrs. Ummel was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1926 and is survived by her daughter, Rose, and son, Dave, both of Ransom and her daughter Gerture, of Salem, Oregon; six sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Johannes, Mrs. Emma Horchem, Mrs. Anna Sipe, Mrs. Mary Neyer, Mrs. Laura Huxman, Mrs. Rosa Rutschman, and two brothers, Louis and Fred, and a host of relatives and friends.

How beautiful to be with God,
When earth is fading like a dream,
And from this mist encircled shore
We lauch [sic] upon the unknown stream.
No doubt, no fear, no anxious care,
But comforted by staff and rod,
In that faith-brightened hour of death
How beautiful to be with God.

Funeral services were held from the Ransom Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon, July 2. Conducted by Rev. Theo Roth of Whitewater, Kansas, assisted by Rev. Samuel Paulding of Ransom. Burial was in the Ransom cemetery.