Wiebe, David V. (1890-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Aug 12 p. 8

Birth date: 1890 Mar 24

text of obituary:

Retired Minister, Educator And Author Called by Death

Hillsboro, Kan. — Funeral services for Rev. David V. Wiebe, 75, a leader in the former Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Conference, were held Monday morning at the Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church here. Semi-retired in recent years, he had been active as a minister, educator, author and farmer.

Rev. Wiebe died shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, of a coronary thrombosis while transacting business in an office in Hutchinson. With him at the time of his sudden death were his wife and son David.

He was born in one of the Alexanderwohl villages, Springfield near Lehigh, Kan., on March 24, 1890, the youngest son of an 1874 immigrant couple, Peter A. and Sarah Voth Wiebe.

Among his published writings are three books, “Scriptural Basis of the Principle of Nonresistance and Christian Love,” 1940 (three editions); ”My Parents,” 1955; and “They Seek A Country,” 1959, dealing with various Mennonite settlements.

He was ordained a minister of the Gospel by the KMB Conference in 1939 and served the following churches: Bethany of Hillsboro; Springfield, Lehigh; Zion of Dinuba, Calif.; and Gnadenau, Hillsboro. For a number of years he was chairman of the K.M.B. Conference Peace and Welfare Committee. He was a member of the Mennonite Central Committee for 10 years, and attended the 1952 Mennonite World Conference as a KMB delegate.

Receiving his elementary education at the Springfield School, he attended Tabor College Academy and received the A.B. degree from Tabor in 1924. Kansas University granted him the M.A. degree in 1927.

His teaching career included eight years as principal of Zoar Academy, Inman, Kan., and at Reedley Bible Academy, Reedley, Calif. He was head of the Education Department of Tabor College for one year. During his he lifetime he farmed at Lehigh, Kan., Reedley, Calif., and Abbotsford, B.C.

Surviving are his wife, the former Martha Frantz; three sons, Raymond of Wichita, David of Fresno, Calif., and John of Emporia, Kan.; one daughter, Mrs. Constance Isaac of Shafter, Calif.; and three grandchildren.

Interment was made in the Hillsboro M. B. Cemetery.

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