[or-roots] Ada Kauffman Obit. wife of Ezra Burkholder

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Gospel Herald Obituary - June 1937

Gospel Herald Obituaries - June, 1937

Burkholder.- Ada, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Kauffman; was born March
5, 1875, in Lancaster Co., Pa.; died at Woodburn, Oreg., May 10, 1937; aged
62 y. 2 m. 5 d. Death was due to pneumonia. In April, 1896, she was united
in marriage to Ezra Burkholder who preceded her in death Sept. 3, 1933.
Surviving are three sons and six daughters: Lester, Fred, Earl, and Grace
Emmert of Molalla; Vera Wickwire, Ida Wickwire, and Ruth Carless of Oregon
City; Nettle Lepinsky of Canby; and Gladys of Portland-also sixteen
grandchildren and three brothers: Harvey Kauffman (a twin to the departed)
of Los Altos, Calif.; E. H. Kauffman, Hartford, Conn.; A. H. Kauffman,
Chicago Ill., once a missionary to Palestine. She embraced Christianity in
her youth and united with the Bethel congregation March 13, 1921, and
remained faithful until death. She passed in an early hour just after Mother
s Day.
"Tell mother I'll be there, in answer to her prayer,
This message blessed Saviour to her bear, 
Tell mother I'll be there,
Heav'n's joys with her to share,
Oh, tell my darling mother I'll be there."
Funeral services at the Hopewell church, conducted by F. J. Gingerich and H.
A. Wolfer. Interment in the adjoining cemetery.


Nancy
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