Anna Ruth Baerg Koehn was born to Jacob and Maria Baerg on January 20, 1927 on the family farm north of Butterfield Minnesota. She passed away on July 27, 2015 in OKC,OK at the age of 88. She graduated from high school in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She attended Grace Bible Institute (now Grace University) in Omaha, Nebraska where she met Clifford Koehn. Prior to their marriage, she received nurses training at the Vocational School of Nursing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then on June 22, 1950 she married Clifford at her home church at Butterfield, Minnesota.
Anna Ruth and Clifford planned to go to the mission field, but because of health issues, their plans changed. Instead they entered the ministry taking their first church near Langdon, North Dakota. Because of their continuing interest in missions, four years later they moved to Seiling, Oklahoma as home missionaries to the Cheyenne Indians. In 1975 they moved to Geary, Oklahoma to pastor the First Mennonite Church. They remained in that pastorate till the church closed.
Along the way, Clifford and Anna Ruth had three children, Virginia, Ronald, and Wanda. They also feel blessed by their four grandchildren, Michael, Steven, Brian, and Renae.
Anna Ruth enjoyed quilting, crocheting, reading, making jam and spending time with her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jacob and Maria Baerg, her brother Henry and his wife Martha, brother Jacob, and sister Marie.
Her funeral will be held at the Bethel Mennonite Church in Hydro, Oklahoma on Thursday, 2:00PM, July 30, 2015 at Hydro, OK. Officiating: Rev. Bob Sprunger Interment will be in the cemetery by the Greenfield Mennonite Church, Carnegie, Oklahoma.
Memorial Donations: Global Disciples C/O Bethel Mennonite Church, 805 Peck Ave, Hydro, OK 73048
Family Visitation: Geary Turner Funeral Home, 5pm-8pm, 7-29-2015
Services entrusted to Turner Funeral Home, Geary, Oklahoma, condolences may be sent to the family at [email protected] or at our website, turnerfh.net
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Anna Ruth Baerg Koehn was born to Jacob and Maria Baerg on January 20, 1927 on the family farm north of Butterfield Minnesota. She passed away on July 27, 2015 in OKC,OK at the age of 88. She graduated from high school in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She attended Grace Bible Institute (now Grace University) in Omaha, Nebraska where she met Clifford Koehn. Prior to their marriage, she received nurses training at the Vocational School of Nursing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then on June 22, 1950 she married Clifford at her home church at Butterfield, Minnesota.
Anna Ruth and Clifford planned to go to the mission field, but because of health issues, their plans changed. Instead they entered the ministry taking their first church near Langdon, North Dakota. Because of their continuing interest in missions, four years later they moved to Seiling, Oklahoma as home missionaries to the Cheyenne Indians. In 1975 they moved to Geary, Oklahoma to pastor the First Mennonite Church. They remained in that pastorate till the church closed.
Along the way, Clifford and Anna Ruth had three children, Virginia, Ronald, and Wanda. They also feel blessed by their four grandchildren, Michael, Steven, Brian, and Renae.
Anna Ruth enjoyed quilting, crocheting, reading, making jam and spending time with her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jacob and Maria Baerg, her brother Henry and his wife Martha, brother Jacob, and sister Marie.
Her funeral will be held at the Bethel Mennonite Church in Hydro, Oklahoma on Thursday, 2:00PM, July 30, 2015 at Hydro, OK. Officiating: Rev. Bob Sprunger Interment will be in the cemetery by the Greenfield Mennonite Church, Carnegie, Oklahoma.
Memorial Donations: Global Disciples C/O Bethel Mennonite Church, 805 Peck Ave, Hydro, OK 73048
Family Visitation: Geary Turner Funeral Home, 5pm-8pm, 7-29-2015
Services entrusted to Turner Funeral Home, Geary, Oklahoma, condolences may be sent to the family at [email protected] or at our website, turnerfh.net
courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/turner.f.homes/photos/a.498025566874925.119347.492320647445417/1021337577877052/?type=3&theater
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