Zimmerman, Fannie Guth (1864-1947)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Nov 6 p. 3

Birth date: 1864 Feb 15

text of obituary:

FANNIE GUTH ZIMMERMAN

Fannie Guth Zimmerman, daughter of Peter and Fannie Guth, was born in Tazwell [sic Tazewell] county near Groveland, Illinois, Feb. 15, 1864, and died at the home of her son, Enoch Zimmerman, at Salem, Oregon, Oct. 21, 1947, at the age of 83 years eight months and six days.

In her early youth she was converted by accepting Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour and was baptized and joined the Defenseless Mennonite church of Groveland, Ill. Since coming to Salem, Oregon, she worshipped with the German Baptist church, the Christian Missionary Alliance and the Emmanuel Mennonite church of Pratum.

She was united in marriage to John M. Zimmerman on May 10, 1894, and they made their home near Chenoa, Illinois. He preceded her in death on May 10, 1898, after which she moved to Reno county, Kansas, near Sterling, where she lived for five years. She then moved back to Groveland, Illinois. She lived in Groveland until 1927, when she, with her son Enoch and wife Margaret, moved to Salem, Oregon. She shared her home with the aged Mary Snyder and an orphan boy, Roy McCormick.

She is survived by her son Enoch and his wife Margaret; three grandchildren, Mabel Marie, Dorothy Mae, and David John Zimmerman, and also seven step grandchildren; four sisters, Phoebe Seitz of Sterling, Kansas, Barbara Krob, Lena Oyer, and Sophia Krenzin, all of Hutchinson, Kansas; three brothers, Benjamin R. Guth, of Woodburn, Ore., Henry E. Guth of Detroit, Mich., and Aron Guth of Hutchinson, Kansas; a number of nephews and nieces and a host of neighbors and friends.

Funeral services were conducted at the Clough-Barrick Chapel Friday afternoon, Oct. 24, at 1:30 with Rev. Wilbert Regier of the Emmanuel Mennonite church, Pratum, in charge, using as his text John 11:18-36. Rev. J. H. Quiring of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren church at Dallas spoke a few words in German, using as his text Rev. 7:9-17. Burial was in Belcrest Memorial Park near Salem.