Wiebe, Velma Litwiller (1920-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Jul 9 p. 8

Birth date: 1920 Mar 12

text of obituary:

VELMA L. WIEBE

Velma L. Wiebe, 87, of Huron, S.D., died June 25, 2007, at the Huron Nursing Home. She was born March 12, 1920, to John and Phoebe (Good) Litwiller at Hopedale, Ill.

She graduated from high school in Hopedale and attended Hesston (Kan.) College. There she met her future husband, Edward Wiebe. She graduated from the Mennonite School of Nursing in La Junta, Colo., in 1946. She married Edward Wiebe July 20, 1946, in Hopedale at the home of her parents.

She served faithfully with him in ministry for more than 50 years. They served churches at GoYe Mission in Porum, Okla., at West New Hopedale Mennonite Church in Ringwood, Okla., at Mount Olivet Mennonite Church in Huron and at Bethel Community Church in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. In addition to serving with her husband, she worked as a registered nurse in Texas, California and Kansas and at the Violet Tschetter Memorial Home in Huron. She and her husband retired in 1989 in Rockford, Ill. They moved to Huron in 2005.

She enjoyed gardening, playing games, reading and singing. She was an accomplished quilter. Her children and grandchildren cherish the quilts she stitched with so much love. Her favorite Scripture was Psalm 23.

Survivors include her husband, Edward Wiebe of Huron; two sons, Gary Wiebe and his wife, Nancy, of Belvidere, Ill., and Daniel Wiebe and his wife, Doris, of Pueblo, Colo.; two daughters, Cheryl Hofer of Huron and Beth Bowers and her husband, Larry, of Highlands Ranch, Colo.; a brother, Elmer Litwiller; two sisters, Ruth Imhoff and Lyla Hartman; 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Alice, Dora and Clara; and two brothers, Clifford and Oliver.

Funeral services were held at First United Methodist Church. Burial was in the Mount Olivet Church section of the Ideal Cemetery.