Old Order Mennonite Memoirs

The wheels of the van went round and round all along the road. Although my traveling companions and I spent the hours and miles visiting, laughing and singing together, it was a sad occasion which bid us on a trip to Union County on Tuesday evening. At the viewing of my maternal second cousin, Erla Martin Zimmerman, age 51, we shook hands with her husband Aaron and five of her six motherless children. As did the other callers (of which there were over 900) we waited patiently for our turn in the calm evening of October's first day. The extended family members were seated in a huge half circ...