Unruh, Aaron (1907-1974)

Revision as of 15:00, 24 October 2023

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Jan 9 p. 7

Birth date: 1907

text of obituary:

Hutchinson, Kan. — Slippery, hazardous highway conditions in the Dodge City area were blamed for a crash on US-54 west of Kingsdown Dec. 30 that claimed the lives of a Meade couple.

Aaron Unruh, 67, and his wife Lorraine, 61, were killed when their car was involved in a collision with an oncoming auto occupied by a Lenexa family. Both were dead on arrival at the Bucklin hospital. The Lenexa couple and their daughter are recovering.

The Unruhs were members of the E.M.B. church at Meade, where double funeral services were conducted Friday forenoon, Jan. 3. Rev. John Jackson officiated.

Mrs. Unruh, the former Lorraine Schmidt, married Aaron Unruh at Carnegie, Okla. in 1937. He was born at Pawnee Rock, and farmed in the Meade community most of his life. Both leave brothers and sisters.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Jan 30 p. 8

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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Schmidt received a phone call early Saturday morning, Dec. 28, that Mr. Schmidt's father had died early that morning in the Nevada City Hospital, Nevada, Mo. He had been in ill health since last June. The funeral was held in the Mennonite Church at Walker, Mo. on Monday afternoon, Dec. 30, and the body was then taken to Goltry, Okla. where a short memorial service was held and burial was made in the Goltry Cemetery. The Schmidts lived in the Goltry area for about 42 years of their married life. Those attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Schmidt and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Koehn, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Schmidt and son, Mrs. Phillip Unruh, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and family and Mr. and Mrs. Cris Swarey.

Relatives here were saddened when the message came that Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Unruh of Meade had been killed in a head-on car accident.