Wiebe, Magdalene (1883-1969)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1969 Dec 25 p. 8

Birth date: 1883

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• Funeral services for Sister Magdalene Wiebe, 86, of the Bethel Home for Aged were held Saturday forenoon at the Sister Frieda Memorial Chapel. Rev. Arnold Epp officiated. Sister Magdalene died Dec. 19 at the Home, where she had been a resident 1946. A native of Samara, Russia, she became a deaconess at Beatrice, Neb. in 1914 and a registered nurse in 1916. She was in the first group of nursing graduates to be examined by the Nebraska state board. She then became director of the Mennonite Hospital in Beatrice, and continued in that capacity until 1930. In that year she went to Winnipeg, Man. where she had a leading part in establishing the Concordia Hospital, founded to serve World War I refugees from Russia. During her term as director the hospital was moved to a more adequate building and became accredited. She resigned in 1940 due to ill health. Among her survivors are a sister, Mrs. P. D. Schultz of Wichita, and a niece, Mrs. Malcolm Wenger of Newton. She was a member of the Newton First Mennonite Church.