Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 11 January 2000 18:00
Nellie Toews Wiens, 97, retired Tip Top Creamery employee and Salem Home Nurse Aide, died Jan. 7 at
Nellie Toews Wiens, 97, retired Tip Top Creamery employee and Salem Home Nurse Aide, died Jan. 7 at Parkside Homes.
Services were held Jan. 12 at Hillsboro United Methodist Church, with Pastor Larry Parrish officiating. Burial was at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Cemetery.
She was born Oct. 11, 1902 to Gerhard B. Toews and Helena Hiebert in rural Hillsboro.
On July 29, 1925 she was married to George L. Wiens, who predeceased her.
Survivors include a son Delton W. of Monmouth, Ore.; a daughter, Marilyn R. Ensz of Hillsboro; sisters, Anna Toews Krauss of Kearney, Neb., and Luella Funk of Shafter, Calif.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial funds have been established for Parkside Homes and Hillsboro United Methodist Church.
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