Wiens, Abe (1914-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Jun 3 p. 5

Birth date: 1914

text of obituary:

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• Visitors here this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Goertz, North Newton, were Mrs. Goertz's niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Fhy of Winton, Calif. the Fhy's brought word of a highway tragedy on the Fresno Freeway near Fresno, Calif. May 24 in which Abe Wiens, 51, his wife Alma, 40, and her sister Alvina (Harbart) Schroeder, 51, wife of William Schroeder, were all instantly killed. All were of the Madera, Calif. community and active in the Mennonite Brethren Church in the Dixieland District. Ted S. Harbart, 58, brother of the two sisters, had died a few days earlier of a heart attack. The three were en route to Fresno to meet a relative who had come for Mr. Harbart's funeral when their car was hit head-on by a pick-up truck traveling the wrong direction on the freeway. The quadruple funeral service was held last Thursday at a Madera funeral chapel, with Rev. Bernard Wall, Jr. and Rev. A. P. Koop officiating. Mrs. Fhy is a sister of the surviving husband, Wm Schroeder. She and her husband, a retired railroad engineer, were en route to Virginia to visit their daughter when they learned of the tragedy and returned to California. They are now once again on the way to Virginia.