Unternahrer, Noah (1918-2008)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Sep 22 p. 9

Birth date: 1918 Feb 5

text of obituary:

NOAH UNTERNAHRER

Noah Unternahrer, 90, of Parkview Home in Wayland, Iowa, died Aug. 29, 2008, at Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant. He was born Feb. 5, 1918, to Christian and Anna (Rediger) Unternahrer in Wayland.

He married Barbara Elizabeth Wenger on June 21, 1942, in Wayland.

He attended Douglas Country School. He and his wife lived and farmed in the Wayland area for more than 50 years. He was a member of Sugar Creek Mennonite Church of rural Wayland, where he had served as a trustee and Sunday school teacher. He was a member of Gideon’s International and was a board member of Iowa Mennonite School of rural Kalona. He enjoyed being a farmer, volunteering, woodworking, reading, cracking and picking out nuts, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara, of Wayland; five children, Kathryn Smith and her husband, Charles, of Nappanee, Ind., Ronald Unternahrer and his wife, Ingrid, of Stroudsburg, Pa., David Unternahrer and his wife, Janis, of Wayland, Rosetta Koerner and her husband, David, of Kalona, and Esther Amstutz and her husband, Chuck, of Orrville, Ohio; a daughter-in-law, Hortensia Unternahrer of Wayland; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Norman Unternahrer, on March 3, 2007; two brothers, Joe and Jake Unternahrer; five sisters, Hannah Roth and four others in infancy; and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church. Burial was in Sugar Creek Mennonite Cemetery.