Wiebe, Elizabeth Schellenberg (1878-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Jul 22 p. 11

Birth date: 1878 Aug 3

text of obituary:

ELIZABETH (SCHELLENBERG) WIEBE

Elizabeth Schellenberg was born near Hillsboro, Kan. on Aug. 3, 1878. By the time that she was seven both her parents had died and she went to live in the home of Elder Abraham Harms.

She was converted in her youth and was baptized into the fellowship of the Gnadenau Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church near Hillsboro.

On the day after Christmas in 1898 she married Frank Z. Wiebe, a young school teacher from her home congregation. Shortly after their wedding our parents came by covered wagon to Corn, Okla., where father began teaching. Our parents' first home was north of Corn. Soon after settling there a farm south of Corn was purchased. This was their home until they retired to Corn in 1945. Father and mother transferred their membership to the Corn Menonite Brethren Church when the distance to their church near Weatheford became too great.

Father passed away in 1951 and soon thereafter mother chose to live in the Home for the Aged.

Eight children were born to our parents. One brother and sister passed away in infancy. Two brothers — Arno [sic Aron], a brother in Portland, Ore.; and Jake, a teacher at Corn — have passed away during the last five years. Henry, a builder at Corn; Alton, a teacher at Meade, Kan.; Annie, a homemaker at Oklahoma City, remain, as do four sisters-in-law — Emma, Mrs. Henry Wiebe of Corn, Edna, Mrs. Nicholas Jaeger of Portland, Ore.; Margaret, Mrs. Alton Wiebe of Meade, Kan.; and Alice, Mrs. Jake Wiebe of Corn. There are 14 grandchildren. Among them are doctors, ministers, teachers, a missionary, a builder, a nurse and homemakers. There are 30 great=grandchildren. Of mother's four sisters and two brothers, only one remains — Abraham Schellenberg of Paxton, Neb.