Funeral Services for Mary Kliewer, 90, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, February 1, 2008 at the Mennonite Brethren Church of Fairview. The Reverends Brad Penner and Leonard Vogt will officiate. Burial will follow in the South Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.
Visitation will be Wednesday and Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm at the funeral home and before the service at the church.
Mary Weis Kliewer was born April 13, 1917, to Adolph and Minnie Weis in their home of Fairview, Oklahoma. She died at the Fairview Fellowship Home on January 28, 2008.
Mary grew up on her family's farm helping with house chores and farm chores. She especially enjoyed playing outside and riding horse. She graduated 8th grade from the Roscoe School. The family attended the North Mennonite Brethren Church where she received Jesus Christ as her savior, at age 15, and was then baptized. She married Edwin Waldo Kliewer, August 11, 1935, at the South Mennonite Brethren Church where they began their involvement in church activities. She sang in the Church Choir and Ladies Chorus, served on the Dining Hall Committee, taught Sunday School and Daily Vacation Bible School, cooked at Church Camps, and quilted and embroidered at the Women's Missionary Society. Her hobbies at home were doing hand work of all kinds, cut work and quilting. She loved being involved in the East Fairview Home Demonstration Club where she also held several offices. She also enjoyed keeping people in her home from visiting choirs and missionaries.
Edwin and Mary worked side by side farming for 44 years. They enjoyed traveling together, especially to Germany to meet six of Mary's cousins from Russia whom she had just found. The most important trip to them was to Israel. They shared about the things they had learned and had seen for many years afterward.
Mary Weis Kliewer is survived by her immediate family, including her daughters, Twyla Ann and Rita Jean and their husbands, respectively, LeRoy Pederson and Don Dick: her grandchildren Garth and Jody Pederson, Michael and Patrice Conrath, Larry Michaels, and John Corillo; and her great grandchildren, Samuel, Anna, and Nicholas Pederson, Sharayah, Adelyn, and Landon Conrath, Edwin, Kendra, and Travis Michaels.
Mary's husband, Edwin Waldo; her brothers. Otto Weis, Leonard Weis, and Walter Weis; her sisters, Olga Martens and Elsie Goosen, preceded her in death.
Memorials may be made to MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) with Fairview Funeral Home Inc., acting as custodian.
Condolences may be made at www.fairviewfuneralhomeinc.com .