Zimmerly, Martha L. Miller (1934-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Jul 22 p. 12

Birth date: 1934 Nov 12

text of obituary:

MARTHA ZIMMERLY

Martha L. Zimmerly, 67, of Wooster, Ohio, and formerly of Orrville, died May 18, 2002. She was born Nov. 12, 1934, to Earl and Esther (Showalter) Miller in Sterling.

She was a 1952 graduate of Smithville High School and a 1956 graduate of Manchester (Ind.) College.

She married Glenn E. Zimmerly on Aug. 18, 1956, in Creston.

She was a schoolteacher at Marshallville Elementary and at Caledonia and Groveport.

She and her husband served with Mennonite Central Committee in Indonesia 1959-63 and with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Albania 1994-2001, where she served as a licensed pastor.

She was an active member of Orrville Mennonite Church. She was a volunteer with FISH and the Lao community.

Survivors include her husband, Glenn Zimmerly; a son, Miles Zimmerly Wiederkehr and his wife, Ruth Isaac, of Guelph, Ont.; a daughter, Jeanne Jantzi and her husband, Dan, of Salatiga, Indonesia; four sisters, Arlene Heiks of Ashland, Donna Rehm of Smithville, June Nettleton of Wooster and Emilie Bogner of Huntsville, Ala.; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Ruth Ann Miller, in 1996, and an infant sister, Doris Miller, in 1926.

Services were held at Orrville Mennonite Church. Burial was in Crown Hill Mennonite Church Cemetery near Rittman.