KOCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-12 published
SMITHSON,
Minna
Marion (née
RUMPEL)
In Kitchener, on Thursday, April 10, 2003. Born August 14, 1912,
Minna was in her 91st year. She and her parents, Walter George
RUMPEL and Marion Louise
KOCH had all been born in old Berlin
(Kitchener). After all these years, Minna has finally gone dancing
with Jake, her best friend, companion and husband John Robertson
SMITHSON who died 41 years ago in Kitchener. She will always
be fondly remembered as a loving mother of Sydney Ann
SMITHSON
of Cambridge and John Thomas
SMITHSON and his wife
Elly of Vancouver,
British
Columbia; as a devoted sister of John Walter
RUMPEL of
Kitchener; as an enthusiastic aunt of David John
RUMPEL and wife
Renie of Waterloo, Reverend Sidney
SMITHSON and his wife
Elizabeth
of London, Mary
SMITHSON of Oakville; as a loving aunt to several
nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews in Ontario and British
Columbia. For many years, Minna had been a teacher in the Kitchener
schools and since the death of her husband had been a member
of Saint John's Anglican Church. The family wishes to extend special
thanks to her companions and Friends that have cared for her
over the last years at her home and also to her nurses in The
Frank and Glady Voisin Intensive Care Unit/Coronary Care Unit,
Saint Mary's General Hospital, Kitchener. The family will receive
Friends at the Ratz- Bechtel Funeral Home and Cremation Centre,
621 King Street West, Kitchener, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Sunday.
Funeral services with family and Friends will be conducted at
The Church of Saint John The Evangelist, 23 Water Street North,
Kitchener at 11 a.m. on Monday with Reverend Sid
SMITHSON and
Archdeacon Neil
CARVER officiating. As expressions of sympathy,
the family would appreciate donations to the Saint John The Evangelist
Anglican Church Building Fund or to the charity of your choice.
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