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This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

Box 1: notebook (record of weddings performed, etc.), diplomas, photos, printed matter, books, birthday book (Vergissmeinnicht), correspondence, C. E. Krehbiel diaries, other C. E. Krehbiel items

Box 2: subject files, correspondence

Box 3: index book (to files or articles?), subject files, sermon index, diaries (brought in March 1984 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 4: subject files

Box 5: sermons (brought in 31 Dec 1986 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 6: reel-to-reel tapes, C. E. Witness periodical (from Grace church in Pennsylvania?) (brought in 31 Oct 1994 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 7: slides, 16mm film

box 8: audio cassette, biographical interview by Jim Juhnke

listing of children aided, compiled by C. E. Krehbiel after other records were destroyed in the major Newton business district fire of 1914 http://tools.bethelks.edu/mla/holdings/indexes/other/leisy%20orphan%20list.pdf

box 1: account books, school papers, Mennonite Hilfs-Plan print ephemera, Grace Hill church print ephemera, Bethel College print ephemera, birth certificate (hers), 1924 Newtonian (Newton High School), writings (hers)
box 2: school papers, wedding guest book, photos
box 3: photos
box 4: photos, diplomas and certificates, Bethel Academy scrapbook (his)

The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.

Consists almost entirely of his diaries 1956-1985. The diaries are somewhat in the  format of scientific lab notebooks, with numerous little drawings.

Also includes some funeral papers, wills, land records, military discharge, clippings, photos, death certificates.

Includes:

• campaign flyer (he ran for county superintendent of public instruction at some point)

• pamphlets, brochures

• correspondence

• family history scrapbook (this comes from Lena Fast whose daughter Linda was Gustav Frey’s second wife, so not a Frey family scrapbook)

• music book, other books

• Wünsche

• biology lab book from Bethel College

• syllabus from Witmarsum seminary 1922-1923

• notebook/diary

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Includes a wide variety of correspondence, financial, legal, and family history materials. The focus is more on personal and family life rather than professional, except for some documentation related to his work as pastor of various churches.

The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

academic writings and notes, some kind of Policies and Procedures manual, 1996 retirement tributes
boxes 2-6: Lois Deckert diaries, correspondence, writings 1968-2009

The collection consists of a copy of the court martial of Michael J. Mandel conducted at Camp Funston in Kansas in 1919.

These papers document the ministry of Glenn W. Whitaker and are divided into four series:

Series 1: Early Ministry and Service, 1936-1981 Series 2: Photographs, 1936-1951 Series 3: Sermon Ministry, 1950-1972 Series 4: Phonograph Records, 1943-1950

This small set of papers consists primarily of Weaver family land records and the estate papers of Barbara Weaver.  Other material in the collection includes photographs of the Weaver family and homestead, clippings regarding David Samuel and Barbara Weaver, assorted documents pertaining to Weaver family genealogy, correspondence concerning property management, and documentation of donations to Hesston College and the La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing.