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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Mendel, Mary Elizabeth Hillerby OBITUARY OF MRS. E. T. MENDEL
Funeral services for Mrs. E. T. Mendel, who died at her home in Emporia last Wednesday morning, Jan. 29th, were held from the First Methodist church of Emporia at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Following is the obituary read at her funeral by Rev. O. E. Allison, the pastor:
Mrs. Mendel was the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Hillerby. She was born September 29, 1867, in Paris, Ill. She was the daughter of the late John P. and Jane Hillerby. Mrs. Mendel went to Parsons in 1901 and came to Emporia in 1908.
R She was married to E. T. Mendel on September 19, 1899, in Jacksonville, Ill. She was a member of the W. C. T. U. and the First Methodist church. Throughout her life she had been active in church work. Before her marriage, she was a children's evangelist. In more recent years she was active in children's work in the Grace Methodist church, where she was superintendent of the primary department of the Methodist Sunday school and later became the teacher of the young women's class.
Mrs. Mendel is survived by her husband; a daughter, Miss Ruth
Mendel, of the home; a son, Collins Wirt Mendel, of Emporia; a sister, Mrs. Charles Hooper, of Jacksonville, Ill., and a brother, Carl S. Hillerby, of South Pasadena, Calif. A son, John Valentine Mendel, died in infancy.
Rev. E. E. Satterlee of this city is cousin of the Mendels and he and Mrs Satterlee attended the funeral
Friday.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jan 29 1936.
by Lorna Marvin
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