Walter, Jacob I. (1889-1950)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1950 Nov 9 p. 1

Birth date: 1889 Nov 27

text of obituary:

S. D. Minister Died Following Accident

REV. JACOB I. WALTER WAS LEADER IN K.M.B. CONFERENCE WORK

Freeman. S.D. — Funeral services were held in Pioneer Hall at Freeman Junior College on Thursday, Nov. 2, for Rev. Jacob I. Walter, widely known minister and conference leader in the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren conference who died in Sioux Valley hospital, Sioux Falls, Monday afternoon.

Death came one week after Rev. Walter had suffered a fractured leg when caught in the power take-off of a corn picker. He would have reached his 61st birthday Nov. 27.

At the time of his death Rev. Walter was serving as assistant pastor of the Salem K.M.B. church near Bridgewater. He was a former president of the K.M.B. conference, and had participated in the 1950 session at Inman, Kans. last month as secretary of the Ministerial Committee and leader of a testimony and prayer service at the Sunday afternoon missionary program. Only a week before his death he had preached the sermon at the Walter-Kleinsasser wedding in the same hall where the funeral services were held.

Left to mourn his sudden passing are his wife, two sons, two daughters, and a number of other relatives as well as many friends.