West, Barbara Ann Stauffer (1881-1945)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1945 May 24 p. 3

Birth date: 1881 Jul 24

text of obituary:

MRS. BARBARA WEST

Barbara Ann Stauffer West, only daughter of Daniel and Rosina Stauffer, was born July 24, 1881, near Morrison, Illinois. Died in the Providence Hospital at Portland, Oregon, February 17, 1945, aged 63 years, 6 months, and 23 days.

For the past few years at times she was quite ill for a few days until during December, 1944, she gradually began to get weaker. After consulting a few doctors she went to the Providence Hospital and an operation was performed for gall stones. It was then discovered she had cancer of the liver. She lived only 12 days and passed quietly away. She was conscious through most of her illness and a few days before her death she bade the family good-bye with a smile on her face.

She bore her affliction with much patience and was greatly loved by her nurses, family, and neighbors. During her sickness she expressed a desire to go home to Glory. During the last days of her affliction she hummed three of her favorite songs and then seemed ready to go home. She loved to sing and in her younger years spent much time singing.

She accepted Christ as her Saviour in the early teens and united with the Mennonite church at Morrison, Illinois, remaining faithful to this belief until death.

In November 16, 1899, she married Bro. Harry West and they lived on a farm until the spring of 1905, when with her husband, two children and father and mother she moved to Hubbard, Oregon. She has lived in this vicinity until death.

She is survive by her husband, six children: Gladys, Mrs. Spencer Nice, La Center, Washington; Raymond, Netarts, Oregon; Zelma, Mrs. Roy Kanagy of Tillamook, Oregon; Mary, Mrs. S. D. Hostetler of Beaver, Oregon; Clarence, Sweet Home, Oregon, and Edna, Mrs. L. C. Hostetler, of Aurora, Oregon; 24 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends who mourn her departure.

Funeral services were held February 20, 1945, at the Zion Mennonite church, near Hubbard, Oregon, conducted by C. Z. Martin, Mountville, Pa., and C. I. Krophf. Text: Rev. 17:9 and I Cor. 15:19. Interment was made in the adjoining cemetery.