Wiebe, Mary Dyck (1892-1957)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 Jul 25 p. 8

Birth date: 1892 Oct 26

text of obituary:

MRS. MARY WIEBE

Mary Wiebe, nee Dyck, daughter of Abraham and Anna (Classen) Dyck, was born Oct. 26, 1892, at Beatrice, Neb. The family came to California in 1900, settling in the Adailade [sic Adelaida] district and later moving to the Willow Creek area.

In the earlier years of her life she was baptized upon her confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour in the San Marcus Mennonite church by Rev. F. F. Janzen.

On Sept. 29, 1910, she married Gustav Wiebe, and they made their home on a farm about five miles southwest of Paso Robles. To this union were born two sons and three daughters, all living.

Mother Wiebe was a great lover of flowers. She enjoyed her flower garden and found much pleasure and delight in the beauty of flowers, which spoke to her in their own language which she so well understood. She always had flowers ready for all visitors, and the sick were remembered.

She was deeply interested in missions and remembered missionaries with special gifts. Gifts were also sent to lonely, helpless, displaced ones in Europe and Asia. Only a week before her pass- [sic] a representative from the Montana mission field was here to convey to her special personal greetings and thanks from workers of that field. Though Mother Wiebe was unable to receive these greetings, since she was in a coma, the family accepted hoping to give them to her. After all, the Lord did repay that joy for such mission work.

She had many special hymns she loved to sing, many favorite Bible passages she loved to read; in fact the Bible was a living Book to her all through life, for she found much joy and comfort in it.

Mother Wiebe had been ailing for 20 years. Though not always bedfast, there were many days, even a few months at a time, when she could be around with members of her family. During these years she was a patient bearer of her affliction. She had a definite longing, especially in the past few years, that the lord might relieve her and give her the privilege to come home to Him, into the mansion he had ready for her. This longing was fulfilled Wednesday, July 10, at 2:00 o'clock in the morning in the Atascadero Hospital, while her husband sat at her bedside watching with her. her age was 64 years, eight months, 14 days.

She leaves to mourn her passing her beloved husband, Gustav Wiebe, at the home; five children, Adolph of Fresno, Mrs. Erna Wiebe of Adailade [sic Adelaida], Mrs. Hertha Heppner of Winton, William of Paso Robles; 17 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. John Hamm, Mrs. John Dueck, Mrs. W. A. McKennon, Mrs. Alfred Bergman; three brothers, Herman Dyck, John Dyck and William Dyck; and many other relatives and friends. Though they mourn, yet it is in full confidence that her longing and desire has been fulfilled, to be at home with the Lord whom she loved.

Funeral services were conducted from the First Mennonite Church at Paso Robles, Calif., Friday, July 12, with Rev. Alfred J. Schwartz and Rev. M. J. Galle officiating.