Description: Sister Frieda Kaufman sitting and reading by Christmas tree, probably in the Sisters' Home; see In the Service of the King, Dec. 144, p. 8-9
Date: December 1942
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 18.5 x 24.5 cm
Source: Bethel Sisters' Home, 1992
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Description: Sister Hillegonda van der Smissen's 50th anniversary as a Sunday School teacher; in First Mennonite Church
Date: June 29, 1919
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 27 x 17 cm
Source: Bethel Sisters' Home, 1992
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Description: Deaconesses on vacation in Colorado; left to right, Sister Elfrieda Sprunger, Sister Rose Jantzen, Sister Dora Richert, Sister Anuta Dirks. These four were ordained as deaconesses June 2, 1918. Used in Mennonite Life, March 1994, p. 9
Date: July 1918
Location: Colorado
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 25 x 18 cm
Source: Bethel Sisters' Home, 1992
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Description: Sister Frieda Kaufman (at right) and two unidentified deaconesses in the "Rosenhaus" [Rose House] located where the Sisters' Home was later built on the Bethel Deaconess Hospital grounds. Used in Bethel Deaconess Home and Hospital, 1918, p. 40. Used in Mennonite Life, March 1994, p. 8.
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 24 x 19 cm
Source: Bethel Sisters' Home, 1992
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Description: Sister Catherine Voth (left) and Sister Hillegonda van der Smissen in the Bethel Deaconess Home, before 1926. Sister Catherine is reading the Newton newspaper, the Evening Kansan-Republican. Note also the portrait of Bernhard Warkentin at upper right. Wilhelmina Warkentin, wife of Bernhard, was a major supporter of the hospital and the deaconesses. Used in Mennonite Life, March 1994, front cover.
Date: ca. 1920?
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 23 x 18 cm
Source: Bethel Sisters' Home, 1992
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Description: Deaconesses ordained June 11, 1939. Back, Marianna Enns; middle left to right, Mary Elizabeth Becker, Sara Dirks or Helena Schmidt, Helen Ruth Epp; front left to right, Helena Schmidt or Sara Dirks, Newta Newfield
Date: 11 June 1939
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
Original size: 12 x 17 cm
Source: Sister Frieda Kaufman collection, 1996
Photograher: Murphy
Description: Deaconesses at Bethel Deaconess Hospital
front left to right; Frieda Kaufman, Catherine Voth, Ida Epp, Hillegonda van der Smissen
middle left to right; Margaret Franz, Susie Quiring, Bertha Schmidt
back left to right; Lydia Goertz, Susanna Berg, Elise Wiebe, Elisabeth Harms, Katharine Eitzen, Maria Froese, Anna Janz
used in Mennonite Life, March 1994, p. 7
used in Lana W. Myers, Newton Medical Center; Merging the Past with the Future (2006), p. 52
Date: March 1911
Location: Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Hospitals - Bethel Deaconess - Newton, KS - Deaconesses
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Photographer: Murphy Studio, Newton, Kansas
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