Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1926-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1.00 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Newton Kansan obituary
The Rev. Rudolf Schmidt, 89, a retired minister of the Mennonite General Conference, and a brother of Ted Schmidt and Mrs. Mary Martens, both of Newton, died Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Sunshine Home in Buhler.
Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Buhler Mennonite Church of which he was a member. The Rev. Abe Krause will officiate and burial will be in the Buhler Municipal Cemetery.
He was born July 31, 1893, at Goessel. On June 27, 1918, he married Katie Wiebe at Goessel. She survives of the home. He had lived in Buhler since 1965.
Other survivors include three other sisters, Sara Ensz of Reedley, Calif., Anna Thiessen of Buhler and Justina Bogema of Siebring, Fla.
Friends may call at the Buhler Mortuary until 9 o'clock tonight. Memorials have been established for the church or the Sunshine Home.
note with the collection indicates he was a minister in western Kansas, Oklahoma, and Newport, Washington.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
donation
Content and structure area
Scope and content
"His papers include personal certificates of birth, marriage, and death and also military papers of World War I. Included is the correspondence with the Home Mission Board of the General Conference from June 30, 1926 to June 13, 1960, his sermons...
also diaries 1926-1952
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open for research
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- German