Voth, Maria Epp (1881-1968)

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	'''MT. LAKE, MINN.''' &#8212; The funeral service for Mrs. John H. (Maria) Voth, who served as a Mennonite Brethren Conference missionary to India over a 34-year period, was held here Friday, Sept. 20.		'''MT. LAKE, MINN.''' &#8212; The funeral service for Mrs. John H. (Maria) Voth, who served as a Mennonite Brethren Conference missionary to India over a 34-year period, was held here Friday, Sept. 20.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Sep 26 p. 12

Birth date: 1881

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Retired Missionary Dies

MT. LAKE, MINN. — The funeral service for Mrs. John H. (Maria) Voth, who served as a Mennonite Brethren Conference missionary to India over a 34-year period, was held here Friday, Sept. 20.

Rev. J. H. Epp of Hillsboro, Missions Secretary for India, spoke at the funeral service.

Mrs. Voth died Sept. 16 in Platteville, Wis. where she was hospitalized. She was 87.

Mrs. Voth experienced a stroke Aug. 11 and was taken to the hospital in Hillsboro, Kan. where she had lived in Parkside Homes retirement center since 1963. On Sept. 1 she was transferred by plane to Platteville where she could be near her son Theadore. There she had another stroke which resulted in her death.

THE DAUGHTER of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Epp, she was born at Mountain Lake in 1881. She became a member of the Carson Mennonite Brethren Church in 1901 and was married to John H. Voth in 1907.

Rev. and Mrs. Voth were appointed as missionaries to India by the Conference Board of Foreign Missions and sailed to India for the first time in 1908. They returned to India three more times, terminating their service in 1942.

AMONG the first missionaries sent to India by the Mennonite Brethren Church in North America. The Voths devoted most of their efforts to the Deverakonda area, but traveled over most of the M. B. area in Andhra Pradesh state in south-central India inviting the Telegu-speaking people to accept the Christian faith.

Many Indians accepted Christ through his ministry, and today churches in Deverakonda are part of the India Mennonite Brethren Church which has 20, 148 members.

A school and a hospital were opened in Deverakonda by Rev. and Mrs. Voth who also began a monthly periodical in the Telegu language which is still being published.

Rev. Voth died in 1943 and was buried in the Carson M. B. cemetery.

SURVIVING are five children; Elizabeth, Washington, D. C.; Sarah, Mrs. Robert A. Ferris, Tulsa, Okla; Meno, in California; Theadore, Platteville, Wis.; and Matilda, Mrs. B. Durell, Toledo, Ohio.