Fern Evangeline Beese

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• Name: Fern Evangeline Heckendorn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95580
• Residence: 1955, Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Fern — Rev. Clayton Bergey Heckendorn. Clayton (son of Menno Heckendorn and Elizabeth Bergey) was born 2 Dec 1899, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1991; was buried , Bridgeport Memorial Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: William Beese
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35190

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BEESE, WILLIAM ERNST

Rev. Beese, PH. B. , BD, was born January 21, 1872, in Carrick Township, Bruce County, ON and died Tuesday, June 11, 1957 at Morriston, after a lengthy illness, in his 86^th year. Rev. Beese was prominently identified with the Canadian Council of Churches during his ministerial career. He was licensed to preach by the Canada Conference in April 1955 at South Cayuga. He was ordained deacon at Tavistock in 1899 and received his elder's ordination in 1901. He took a three year course at North Central College and Seminary in Naperville, Illinois and also took some seminary work under Professor S. L. Umbach. Later, he took several correspondence courses. His first appointment was as assistant pastor at the Chesley mission in 1897. Then, he served a year at Rockingham. In 1899, he was sent as the first missionary of the Evangelical Church to the Canadian northwest. He was stationed at Winnipeg but he also preached at Neudorf, Rosthern and other points. After five years in the west, due to ill health, he returned east. He then served the following fields: Morriston, Toronto, Hespeler, Sebringville, Pelham, Hamilton, Tavistock and then, Hamilton again. He served fifty-one years in the active ministry. For thirteen years, he was Superintendent of the Hamilton and Hamilton-Ottawa Conference. In 1934, he was elected president of the Hamilton Ministerial Association and in 1946 was elected First Vice-President of the Canadian Council of Churches. He retired from active service in 1948 and has since lived in Morriston. On June 14, 1899, he married Barbara Miller of Milverton. To this union, were born two sons and two daughters. One daughter, Lorinda Elizabeth, died in Winnipeg. Mrs. Beese died August 9, 1955. He is survived by two sons, Carl W. of Morriston; Willis E. of Niagara Falls; one daughter, Fern E. (Mrs. Rev. C. B. Heckendorn) of Chesley; two brothers, E. E. Beese of Winnipeg; Edgar A. Beese of Waterloo; one sister, Mrs. S. H. Holtzman of Hamilton; and four grandchildren. In 1946, he retired at Morriston, where he resided until his death. McLanaghan-Wall Funeral Home. A memorial service was held at the Morriston Evangelical United Brethren Church at 2: 30 on Thursday. Rev. A. S. Caughell, pastor of the Morriston Church presided. Rev. E. Pletch offered the prayer and Rev. E. F. Dorsch preached. Interment Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. Rev. G. F. Barthel presided. Pallbearers were: Rev. Earl E. Pletch, Rev. George Sim, Rev. Mervyn E. Reuber, Rev. John V. Dahms, Rev. John Huether and Rev. J. Henry Goetz


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A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

Wilhelm married Barbara Miller 14 Jul 1899, Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario. Barbara was born 28 Jul 1878, Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario; died 9 Aug 1955; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Beese
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37985

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BEESE, BARBARA (Nee Miller)

Wife of Rev. William E. Beese, of Morriston, Tuesday afternoon, August 9, 1955, following a lengthy illness. She was 77 years old, having been born in Milverton, ON on July 28, 1878. Mrs. Beese had been a resident of Morriston for the past seven years and formerly resided in Hamilton. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller. On June 14, 1899, she married Rev. Beese in Milverton. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Carl W. Beese of Morriston; Willis Beese of Niagara Falls, ON; one daughter, Fern (Mrs. Clayton B. Heckendorn) of Bridgeport; one brother, Jacob W. Miller of Lockport, NY; one sister, Melinda Miller of Kitchener; also four grandchildren. Funeral services conducted by Rev. G. F. Barthel were held Thursday at 2: 30 at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home in Kitchener. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-178389
• Immigration: 1850, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1872, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Naturalization: 1875, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

William — Elizabeth Reinhardt. Elizabeth was born 27 Nov 1849, , Ontario, Canada; died 1 Nov 1920; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Beese
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-178390
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35188
• Occupation: 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason

Charles — Dorothea. Dorothea was born 1802, , Mecklenburg, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Dorothea Beese
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35189