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Widmer, Benjamin (1848-1929)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1929 Jun 26 p. 3
Birth date: 1848 Oct 18
text of obituary:
Wayland, Iowa, June 20. — Benjamin Widmer was born in Switzerland October 18, 1848 and died at the home of his son Chriss near Wayland, Iowa, May 21, 1929 at the age of 80 years, 7 months, and 5 days. He was the youngest and last survivor of a family of fifteen children. Brother Widmer accepted Christ as his Savior in his youth and was received into the Mennonite church at Basil, Switzerland, but later transferred his membership to the congregation in the community of his mountain home and when he came to America he again affiliated himself with the same denomination in which Faith he died. In 1870 he was united in marriage with Catharine Graber. This union was blest with ten children, four of whom preceded him in death. In 1888 his wife passed away. In 1893 he came to America and in 1896 he was married to Elizabeth Conrad Graber. In 1910 she passed away. He leaves six children. John in Switzerland, Chriss and Benjamin of Wayland, Iowa; Peter of Washington, Iowa; Mrs. P. J. Alvine of Long Beach, California; Mrs. Omer Seberg of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; twenty-two grandchildren; two great grandchildren and other relatives and friends to mourn his departure.
The funeral was held at the Sugar Creek church near Wayland, Iowa, conducted by the home ministers Ellis Zook, Daniel Graber and Simon Gingerich. Text, John 11:25 and 26; Eccl. 12: 1-7.
Interment was made in the cemetery near by. — Wayland News.