Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1945-1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.30 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 7 November 1918, Adams County, Indiana. Parents Clinton Soldner and Gertrude Lehman Soldner. Baptized June 1932, First Mennonite Church, Berne, Indiana. Graduated from Monroe, Indiana, High School.
Graduated from Bethel Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing, Newton, Kansas, 1942. Then was employed at Bluffton, Ohio, Community Hospital. Went to Colombia as one of the first General Conference Mennonite missionaries. Arrived 20 September 1945 in Medellin.
Left Colombia in 1970.
Served in Mexico 1972-1975.
Married Tillman Nussbaum 14 February 1976. He was a United Methodist pastor.
May 1979 they both joined the staff of United Methodist Memorial Home in Warren, Indiana.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Were sent to the MLA possibly around the time of the Gayle Funk paper in 1980. No specific documentation until 1 September 1982.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diaries, correspondence, photos, slides, scrapbook, clippings. Most or all relating to Colombia mission work.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
The slides were found in VII.A.4.o, COM slide sets and videos transferred to the archives in 2003. Moved to here in 2010.
System of arrangement
unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open for research use
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Spanish