Father: John P. Schmidt
Mother: Lena Base Schmidt
Spouse: Alvin Ratzlaff (married 6-3-1945)
Funeral services for Elvera Schmidt Ratzlaff will be Monday, September 25, 2006, at 3 p.m. at the Mennonite Brethren Church, Fairview, OK. Visitation will be noon to 6 p.m. today at Fairview Funeral Home Inc. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc. (Paid Obit 9-24-2)
Contributor: Debbie Lee Long #39832307
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In Loving Memory of Elvera Ratzlaff
Elvera (Schmidt) Ratzlaff was born February 27, 1923 near Goltry, Oklahoma to John P. and Lena Base Schmidt and passed away September 19, 2006 at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview, Oklahoma.
Elvera was the youngest of six children. Elvera started the first grade at age five. She attended Golden Valley Grade School, a small country grade school near her home close to Goltry. While there, she competed in voice contest throughout Alfalfa County.
Elvera trusted Jesus as her Savior at a young age and rededicated her life to Him as a teenager. She attended high school at Oklahoma Bible Academy for three years. Her father passed away when she was fifteen and she transferred back to Goltry. She graduated from Goltry High School in 1940. She returned to OBA for the extended Bible study courses offered there. While at OBA, she met her life's partner, Alvin Ratzlaff. Soon he was drafted and she went to Lincoln, Nebraska to work with Back to the Bible Broadcast. While with Back to the Bible Broadcast, she sang solos, sang in the trio, and in small groups on live radio.
When not singing she worked in the office and helped with the children's programs.
On June 3, 1945, Alvin and Elvera married in the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Oklahoma. They were blessed with three children, Stan, John & Ruth. Besides the daily chores of being a farmer's wife and a mother, Elvera worked several seasons at the Longhofer Turkey Farm. She also milked cows, canned bushels of vegetables and fruit, and provided lots of meals to visiting missionaries and preachers. She enjoyed other activities including Ladies Missionary Aid at the Saron Mennonite Church at Orienta. She taught Sunday school at the Saron Mennonite Church, the Fairview Church of the Nazarene, and the Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, retiring because of declining health. She also taught Good News Clubs in Fairaview, Okeene, Aline, and Cleo Springs. She joined the Bible Memory Association and memorized approximately 100 verses a year. During her five years with Bible Memory Association she memorized whole books of the Bible, including James, I John, I Peter, Ephesians, & Philippians. Often during morning family devotions she quoted the select text.
Elvera and Alvin remained on the farm one half mile east of Orienta until May 2000, when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decided that the farmstead, which had been home for forty-three years, would be better used as an improved Highway Four hundred twelve.
Elvera and Alvin moved to the Fairview Fellowship Village for five years then into the Fairview Fellowship Home in September 2005.
She is survived by her husband, Alvin, three children, five great grandsons, two great grand daughters. Also surviving are two sisters, one brother and many nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
Elvera was preceded in death by her parents, Alvins' parent, two sister, four brothers-in-law. Alvin's sister, Delores Kroeker and son-in-law, Bruce Harms.
Officiating: Rev. Gary Janzen
Obit and Memories: Rev. Herb Epp (Nephew)
Pianist: Charlotte Kroeker (Niece)
Music: Marilyn Sundeen (Niece)
Casket Bearers: Grandsons
Scott Walker
Aaron Gillespie
Mitch Ratzlaff
Phillip Sharp
Dwane Griffiths
Jeremy Biggs
Travis Ratzlaff
Arrangements by: Fairview Funeral Home:
Chanin & Vernon Hoehn
Funeral Services 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25, 2006
Mennonite Brethren Church
Source for this bio: Funeral Memory Card
Typed by Contributor Janet Milburn #47529757
Note: Names of surviving family members not added
for privacy sake.
Mother: Lena Base Schmidt
Spouse: Alvin Ratzlaff (married 6-3-1945)
Funeral services for Elvera Schmidt Ratzlaff will be Monday, September 25, 2006, at 3 p.m. at the Mennonite Brethren Church, Fairview, OK. Visitation will be noon to 6 p.m. today at Fairview Funeral Home Inc. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc. (Paid Obit 9-24-2)
Contributor: Debbie Lee Long #39832307
___________________________________________________
In Loving Memory of Elvera Ratzlaff
Elvera (Schmidt) Ratzlaff was born February 27, 1923 near Goltry, Oklahoma to John P. and Lena Base Schmidt and passed away September 19, 2006 at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview, Oklahoma.
Elvera was the youngest of six children. Elvera started the first grade at age five. She attended Golden Valley Grade School, a small country grade school near her home close to Goltry. While there, she competed in voice contest throughout Alfalfa County.
Elvera trusted Jesus as her Savior at a young age and rededicated her life to Him as a teenager. She attended high school at Oklahoma Bible Academy for three years. Her father passed away when she was fifteen and she transferred back to Goltry. She graduated from Goltry High School in 1940. She returned to OBA for the extended Bible study courses offered there. While at OBA, she met her life's partner, Alvin Ratzlaff. Soon he was drafted and she went to Lincoln, Nebraska to work with Back to the Bible Broadcast. While with Back to the Bible Broadcast, she sang solos, sang in the trio, and in small groups on live radio.
When not singing she worked in the office and helped with the children's programs.
On June 3, 1945, Alvin and Elvera married in the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Oklahoma. They were blessed with three children, Stan, John & Ruth. Besides the daily chores of being a farmer's wife and a mother, Elvera worked several seasons at the Longhofer Turkey Farm. She also milked cows, canned bushels of vegetables and fruit, and provided lots of meals to visiting missionaries and preachers. She enjoyed other activities including Ladies Missionary Aid at the Saron Mennonite Church at Orienta. She taught Sunday school at the Saron Mennonite Church, the Fairview Church of the Nazarene, and the Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, retiring because of declining health. She also taught Good News Clubs in Fairaview, Okeene, Aline, and Cleo Springs. She joined the Bible Memory Association and memorized approximately 100 verses a year. During her five years with Bible Memory Association she memorized whole books of the Bible, including James, I John, I Peter, Ephesians, & Philippians. Often during morning family devotions she quoted the select text.
Elvera and Alvin remained on the farm one half mile east of Orienta until May 2000, when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decided that the farmstead, which had been home for forty-three years, would be better used as an improved Highway Four hundred twelve.
Elvera and Alvin moved to the Fairview Fellowship Village for five years then into the Fairview Fellowship Home in September 2005.
She is survived by her husband, Alvin, three children, five great grandsons, two great grand daughters. Also surviving are two sisters, one brother and many nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
Elvera was preceded in death by her parents, Alvins' parent, two sister, four brothers-in-law. Alvin's sister, Delores Kroeker and son-in-law, Bruce Harms.
Officiating: Rev. Gary Janzen
Obit and Memories: Rev. Herb Epp (Nephew)
Pianist: Charlotte Kroeker (Niece)
Music: Marilyn Sundeen (Niece)
Casket Bearers: Grandsons
Scott Walker
Aaron Gillespie
Mitch Ratzlaff
Phillip Sharp
Dwane Griffiths
Jeremy Biggs
Travis Ratzlaff
Arrangements by: Fairview Funeral Home:
Chanin & Vernon Hoehn
Funeral Services 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25, 2006
Mennonite Brethren Church
Source for this bio: Funeral Memory Card
Typed by Contributor Janet Milburn #47529757
Note: Names of surviving family members not added
for privacy sake.
Father: John P. Schmidt
Mother: Lena Base Schmidt
Spouse: Alvin Ratzlaff (married 6-3-1945)
Funeral services for Elvera Schmidt Ratzlaff will be Monday, September 25, 2006, at 3 p.m. at the Mennonite Brethren Church, Fairview, OK. Visitation will be noon to 6 p.m. today at Fairview Funeral Home Inc. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc. (Paid Obit 9-24-2)
Contributor: Debbie Lee Long #39832307
___________________________________________________
In Loving Memory of Elvera Ratzlaff
Elvera (Schmidt) Ratzlaff was born February 27, 1923 near Goltry, Oklahoma to John P. and Lena Base Schmidt and passed away September 19, 2006 at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview, Oklahoma.
Elvera was the youngest of six children. Elvera started the first grade at age five. She attended Golden Valley Grade School, a small country grade school near her home close to Goltry. While there, she competed in voice contest throughout Alfalfa County.
Elvera trusted Jesus as her Savior at a young age and rededicated her life to Him as a teenager. She attended high school at Oklahoma Bible Academy for three years. Her father passed away when she was fifteen and she transferred back to Goltry. She graduated from Goltry High School in 1940. She returned to OBA for the extended Bible study courses offered there. While at OBA, she met her life's partner, Alvin Ratzlaff. Soon he was drafted and she went to Lincoln, Nebraska to work with Back to the Bible Broadcast. While with Back to the Bible Broadcast, she sang solos, sang in the trio, and in small groups on live radio.
When not singing she worked in the office and helped with the children's programs.
On June 3, 1945, Alvin and Elvera married in the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Oklahoma. They were blessed with three children, Stan, John & Ruth. Besides the daily chores of being a farmer's wife and a mother, Elvera worked several seasons at the Longhofer Turkey Farm. She also milked cows, canned bushels of vegetables and fruit, and provided lots of meals to visiting missionaries and preachers. She enjoyed other activities including Ladies Missionary Aid at the Saron Mennonite Church at Orienta. She taught Sunday school at the Saron Mennonite Church, the Fairview Church of the Nazarene, and the Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, retiring because of declining health. She also taught Good News Clubs in Fairaview, Okeene, Aline, and Cleo Springs. She joined the Bible Memory Association and memorized approximately 100 verses a year. During her five years with Bible Memory Association she memorized whole books of the Bible, including James, I John, I Peter, Ephesians, & Philippians. Often during morning family devotions she quoted the select text.
Elvera and Alvin remained on the farm one half mile east of Orienta until May 2000, when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decided that the farmstead, which had been home for forty-three years, would be better used as an improved Highway Four hundred twelve.
Elvera and Alvin moved to the Fairview Fellowship Village for five years then into the Fairview Fellowship Home in September 2005.
She is survived by her husband, Alvin, three children, five great grandsons, two great grand daughters. Also surviving are two sisters, one brother and many nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
Elvera was preceded in death by her parents, Alvins' parent, two sister, four brothers-in-law. Alvin's sister, Delores Kroeker and son-in-law, Bruce Harms.
Officiating: Rev. Gary Janzen
Obit and Memories: Rev. Herb Epp (Nephew)
Pianist: Charlotte Kroeker (Niece)
Music: Marilyn Sundeen (Niece)
Casket Bearers: Grandsons
Scott Walker
Aaron Gillespie
Mitch Ratzlaff
Phillip Sharp
Dwane Griffiths
Jeremy Biggs
Travis Ratzlaff
Arrangements by: Fairview Funeral Home:
Chanin & Vernon Hoehn
Funeral Services 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25, 2006
Mennonite Brethren Church
Source for this bio: Funeral Memory Card
Typed by Contributor Janet Milburn #47529757
Note: Names of surviving family members not added
for privacy sake.
Mother: Lena Base Schmidt
Spouse: Alvin Ratzlaff (married 6-3-1945)
Funeral services for Elvera Schmidt Ratzlaff will be Monday, September 25, 2006, at 3 p.m. at the Mennonite Brethren Church, Fairview, OK. Visitation will be noon to 6 p.m. today at Fairview Funeral Home Inc. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc. (Paid Obit 9-24-2)
Contributor: Debbie Lee Long #39832307
___________________________________________________
In Loving Memory of Elvera Ratzlaff
Elvera (Schmidt) Ratzlaff was born February 27, 1923 near Goltry, Oklahoma to John P. and Lena Base Schmidt and passed away September 19, 2006 at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview, Oklahoma.
Elvera was the youngest of six children. Elvera started the first grade at age five. She attended Golden Valley Grade School, a small country grade school near her home close to Goltry. While there, she competed in voice contest throughout Alfalfa County.
Elvera trusted Jesus as her Savior at a young age and rededicated her life to Him as a teenager. She attended high school at Oklahoma Bible Academy for three years. Her father passed away when she was fifteen and she transferred back to Goltry. She graduated from Goltry High School in 1940. She returned to OBA for the extended Bible study courses offered there. While at OBA, she met her life's partner, Alvin Ratzlaff. Soon he was drafted and she went to Lincoln, Nebraska to work with Back to the Bible Broadcast. While with Back to the Bible Broadcast, she sang solos, sang in the trio, and in small groups on live radio.
When not singing she worked in the office and helped with the children's programs.
On June 3, 1945, Alvin and Elvera married in the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Oklahoma. They were blessed with three children, Stan, John & Ruth. Besides the daily chores of being a farmer's wife and a mother, Elvera worked several seasons at the Longhofer Turkey Farm. She also milked cows, canned bushels of vegetables and fruit, and provided lots of meals to visiting missionaries and preachers. She enjoyed other activities including Ladies Missionary Aid at the Saron Mennonite Church at Orienta. She taught Sunday school at the Saron Mennonite Church, the Fairview Church of the Nazarene, and the Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, retiring because of declining health. She also taught Good News Clubs in Fairaview, Okeene, Aline, and Cleo Springs. She joined the Bible Memory Association and memorized approximately 100 verses a year. During her five years with Bible Memory Association she memorized whole books of the Bible, including James, I John, I Peter, Ephesians, & Philippians. Often during morning family devotions she quoted the select text.
Elvera and Alvin remained on the farm one half mile east of Orienta until May 2000, when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decided that the farmstead, which had been home for forty-three years, would be better used as an improved Highway Four hundred twelve.
Elvera and Alvin moved to the Fairview Fellowship Village for five years then into the Fairview Fellowship Home in September 2005.
She is survived by her husband, Alvin, three children, five great grandsons, two great grand daughters. Also surviving are two sisters, one brother and many nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
Elvera was preceded in death by her parents, Alvins' parent, two sister, four brothers-in-law. Alvin's sister, Delores Kroeker and son-in-law, Bruce Harms.
Officiating: Rev. Gary Janzen
Obit and Memories: Rev. Herb Epp (Nephew)
Pianist: Charlotte Kroeker (Niece)
Music: Marilyn Sundeen (Niece)
Casket Bearers: Grandsons
Scott Walker
Aaron Gillespie
Mitch Ratzlaff
Phillip Sharp
Dwane Griffiths
Jeremy Biggs
Travis Ratzlaff
Arrangements by: Fairview Funeral Home:
Chanin & Vernon Hoehn
Funeral Services 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25, 2006
Mennonite Brethren Church
Source for this bio: Funeral Memory Card
Typed by Contributor Janet Milburn #47529757
Note: Names of surviving family members not added
for privacy sake.
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