Individual Notes

Note for: Samuel Heinrich QUIRING, 15 FEB 1911 - 26 APR 2002 Index

Occupation:   Pastor

Religion:   ME

Individual Note:
     Retired Minister, Samuel Quiring, 91, died April 26, 2002. He is
survived by three sisters, Helen Sawatzki, Esther Dick and Marie
Clevenger, his wife Dorothy of 66 years, four children, David (wife
Virginia), Sharon Christianson (husband Norman), Dennis, Sandra Faw
(husband Stanley), seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by brother, Henry, sisters Anna Quiring,
Sarah Penner, Tina Quiring, Betty Clevenger and one infant son,
Steven. He was born in Mountain Lake, MN, February 15, 1911. He
was a Baptist Minister in Washington for over 40 years. Memorial
service will be held Tuesday, April 30 at 2 PM at Grace Baptist
Church, 2507 Vassault Ave N., Tacoma. Pub Date: 4/28/2002

Tacoma News Tribune

Individual Notes

Note for: Tina QUIRING, 20 FEB 1912 - 30 JAN 2002 Index

Occupation:   Missionary

Religion:   ME

Individual Note:
     ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Mission Network/Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission) - Tina
Quiring, a mission worker in Congo from 1950 to 1977, died Jan. 30 in Mountain
Lake, Minn. She was 89.

Born Feb. 20, 1912, to Rev. Henry H. and Anna (Schultz) Quiring in Mountain
Lake, she was one of three sisters who eventually found their way to Africa
under the sponsorship of the former Commission on Overseas Mission of the
General Conference Mennonite Church and what was then the Congo Inland Mission,
now Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission.

COM, together with the GCMC Commission on Home Ministries and Mennonite Board of
Missions (Mennonite Church) now is part of Mennonite Mission Network in the USA.

After a year in Belgium studying French, she spent her first two terms in Djoko
Punda, dividing her time between a girls school and a two-year training program
for young men preparing for service in village schools as Christian teachers.

In 1960, Quiring's service in the Congo was interrupted by the violence of
political independence. As soon as it was considered safe for women to return,
she was among the first to go back. She located in Tshikapa, a government and
commercial center. From 1962 until her retirement, her work there focused on the
distribution of Christian literature through a network of bookshops.

She was known to the Congolese as "Mama Tina." People who learned to know her
remember her for her sense of humor and punctuality. Quiring always was busy and
enthusiastic about her work. She firmly believed in the importance of African
believers having God's word written in their mother language.

Quiring graduated from Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School in
Minneapolis in 1936. She also received a bachelor's degree from Goshen (Ind.)
College in 1948. She taught in the Bible department of the Mountain Lake Bible
School and at the Berean Academy in Elbing, Kan., before her service in Congo.
Upon retirement, she made her home in Mountain Lake with her sister, Anna, who
also had served in the Congo. Quiring continued to type manuscripts in the
Tshiluba language for use in the theological education by extension program in
Congo.

She is survived by a brother, Samuel H. Quiring of Tacoma, Wash.; three sisters:
Helen Sawatzky and Esther Dick, both of Mountain Lake, and Marie Ruth Clevenger
of Lima, Ohio; and 25 nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her
parents; two brothers, Henry and Cornelious; and three sisters, Sarah Penner,
Anna Quiring and Elizabeth Clevenger.

Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth QUIRING, 28 MAR 1913 - 8 JUN 1988 Index

Religion: ME

Individual Notes

Note for: Esther QUIRING, 25 AUG 1915 - Index

Religion: ME

Individual Notes

Note for: Marie Ruth QUIRING, 12 JAN 1918 - Index

Religion: ME

Individual Note:
She was married to Garwin C CLEVENGER on MAR 18 1989 in Rosemont Alliance,
Lincoln, Nebraska.

Individual Notes

Note for: Henry Rudy JANZEN, 26 MAY 1917 - Index

Occupation: Farmer

Religion: ME