DEATHS

AND OBITUARIES

Esther Pankratz

Services for Esther Louise Loewen Pankratz, 94, who died Sunday, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.

Pastor Jeremy Matlock will officiate. Committal service will be 10 a.m. Friday at the church cemetery.

Relatives will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro.

Born Feb. 2, 1932, in Sterling to Solomon and Katherine (Schellenberg) Loewen, she accepted Christ during a revival meeting led by D. Edmond Hiebert on Nov. 15, 1945, at Hillsboro M.B. Church

She was baptized June 8, 1946, by J.W. Vogt and joined the church.

She married Harold Pankratz on June 1, 1951, and worked at a food store, the AMPI creamery, a furniture factory, and a flower shop. She later worked in physician G. George Ens’ office for 19 years. After he retired, she learned to be a licensed practical nurse and worked at Salem Hospital in surgery and central services for 16 years.

Sisters Ruby Sutton and Dorothy Weber and brother Kenneth Loewen preceded her in death.

Survivors include children Cheryl Olsen, Glen Pankratz, and Mylene Serpan; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.