Wiebe, Elizabeth Pauls (1876-1957)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 Sep 5 p. 6

Birth date: 1876

text of obituary:

— Mrs. Elizabeth Wiebe, 81, widow of the late Rev. H. V. Wiebe, died Monday evening at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Henry Bergen, in Goessel. Funeral services were announced for Thursday forenoon at the Springfield K.M.B. Church, with Rev. W. W. Harms in charge. Mrs. Wiebe, the former Elizabeth Pauls, was born in South Russia and came to the Lehigh community as a child. Following her marriage to Rev. Wiebe in 1900, they spent eight years in mission work at Elk Park, N. C. Survivors include four daughters, three sons, 25 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.