Rev. Abraham Reist

1893 - 1984  (90 years)

• Name	Abraham Reist
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	2 Dec 1893	May City, Osceola, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-8604
  Died	28 Aug 1984	Edmonton, , Alberta, Canada
  Person ID	I8604	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Elias Brubacher Reist,   b. 28 Jul 1863, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 May 1957, Albany, Linn, Oregon, USA  (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Annie Auker,   b. 7 Jan 1864, , Juniata Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 Oct 1926, Sheridan, Yamhill, Oregon, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Married	21 Oct 1889  [2]
  Family ID	F8984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Reist, Abram & Alma Snider.jpg https://www.gameo.org/index.asp?content=https://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/R4579.html

  
  

• Notes

  Reist.- Abram, son of Elias and Mary (Aucker) Reist, was born in May City, Iowa, Dec. 2, 1893; died in Edmonton General Hospital, Edmonton, Alta., on Aug. 28, 1984; aged 90 y. On July 26, 1918, he was married to Alma Snider, who survives. Also surviving are one son (Lewis), 3 daughters (Gladys-Mrs. Harry Stauffer, Francis-Mrs. Clarence Spicer, and Bessie-Mrs. James Earl), 13 grandchildren, and 27 great-grandchildren. He was ordained to the ministry on May 26, 1919, and served various Mennonite churches in Alberta. He was a member of the West Zion Mennonite Church, where funeral services were held on Sept. 1, in charge of Gordon Buschert and C. J. Ramer; interment in West Zion Cemetery Gospel Herald - Volume 77, Number 40 - October 2, 1984, page 698 ___________________________ Abram Reist: minister of the Clearwater Mennonite Church at Reist, near Youngstown, Alberta, the West Zion Mennonite Church near Carstairs, Alberta, and the Mount Calvary Mennonite Church at Westward Ho, Alberta, was born on 2 December 1893 near May City, Iowa, and died at Carstairs 28 August 1984. He married Alma Snider in 1918. They were the parents of four daughters and one son. Abram Reist's family moved from May City, Iowa, to South Haven, Michigan in 1893, and then, six years later, to northern Michigan. In 1910 the family moved again, this time to a new region of the Canadian prairies near a new railway being built from Saskatoon to Calgary. They, with a small group of friends and relatives, established the new community of Reist, located near Clearwater Lake about ten kilometers north of the nearest railway shipping point at Youngstown, Alberta. The group did not have a minister, but began a Sunday School and organized itself as a new Mennonite congregation named the Clearwater Mennonite Church. In the summer of 1914 Abram Reist found work on a farm in the Didsbury area, and began to attend the Sunday School and worship services of the West Zion Mennonite Church. Here he was converted and baptized, but then returned to Reist/Youngstown. In 1918 he visited his former home in Michigan where he married Alma Snider who accompanied him back to Reist/Youngstown. He was ordained on 26 May 1919 as a minister in the Clearwater congregation. The Mennonite settlement at Reist/Youngstown broke up in 1924, due to prolonged drought. Abram and Alma Reist moved first to the High River area where they rented a farm, but after a year they relocated to the Carstairs area to serve the West Zion congregation during a time when their pastor, Henry J. Harder, was away. Reist continued to serve as Harder's assistant until 1948 when he took over the leadership of the Mount Calvary Mennonite Church at Westward Ho. He continued to serve there until his retirement in the mid-1960s when the Reists again returned to Carstairs where they lived until his death in 1984 and her death three years later. Written December 2003 by TDR Page created 2004 by SJS ©1996-2006 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] News - Gospel Herald, October 2, 1984 - obituary of Abraham Reist. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, Obituary of Elias B. Reist - May 28, 1957.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Dec 1893 - May City, Osceola, Iowa, USA Died - 28 Aug 1984 - Edmonton, , Alberta, Canada  = Link to Google Earth