ELISABETH REIMER

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ELISABETH REIMER After considerable suffering mother/grandma, Elisabeth Reimer widow of late Abram R. Reimer passed away at the Bethesda Hospital on Saturday January 8, 2000. She was born April 9, 1918 to Klass R. and Maria (Loewen) Penner. She was predeceased by her parents, two siblings in infancy, young brother Cornelius, sisters Margaretha, Maria, and Helen, and brothers Abram, Peter, John, and Klaas. She leaves to cherish her memory four sons and two daughters; Garnet and Betty with their daughters, Jewel and Brendan and great-granddaughters Elly and Abby, Pearl and Erwin, Ruby and Syd; Verna and Fred Klassen and their children, Keith and Amanda and great-grandson Mackenzie, Theresa and Quentin and great-granddaughters Nicole and Kyra, Jennifer and Russell; Arnold and Donna and daughters Alicia and Desiree; Allan and Sharon and sons Aaron and Austin; Anna and John Thiessen and children Rachele and Rodney; Robert and Debbie with their children Krista and Brock. She is also survived by Sister Kathrina, sisters-in-law Elizabeth Penner and Helen Penner as well as four sisters-in-law and three brothers-in-law of her late husbands family. Her father passed away before she was a year old. Later her mother married Frank Goertzen. She went to school in Blumenhof. She experienced the great influenza and Typhoid epidemics during which she lost her brother Cornelius. She was baptized upon her faith by late Bishop Peter P. Reimer. She married Abram R. Reimer on May 11, 1941 and shared fully a life of lumber camps, farming, carpentry and community service. She and her husband served as members of the Christian Child Welfare and as deacons in the Blumenort EMC. They lived on their farm in Blumenhof until Abrams passing after which she moved to Oakwood Place in Blumenort where she resided until her passing. The funeral was held at the Blumenort Evangelical Mennonite Church, Thursday, January 8 at 2:00 p.m., nephew Pastor Melvin Penner officiating with interment at the Blumenort Cemetery. We the family would like to extend a very special thank you to the nursing staff at the Bethesda Hospital for their gracious and professional care for our mother during these last two trying weeks. We do not begrudge her rest and passing yet we will miss her dearly because our lives revolved around her. Arrangements entrusted to Loewen Funeral Chapel of Steinbach 326-1351.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jan 12, 2000