Women with a Mission

The Women's Missionary Society - 1938 
President - Miss Clara Greding

Front Row (Seated left to right)- 

Mrs. August Schaefer, Mrs. Anna Urich, Mrs. Anna Koch, Mrs. Cass Dibling, Lillian Klein Gerstenlauer, Inez Herold, Anna Klein, Clara Greding, Mrs. Mary Perry, Mrs. Lizzie King, Mrs. Anna Kinzer, Mrs. William Rhoda, Mrs. Philip Stelzer, Miss Sophia Hoff, Mrs. Bertha Holtkamp.  

Second Row (Standing left to right)- 

Mrs. Otto Gehm, Mrs. Lena Hart, Mrs. Anna Jerold, Mrs. Fred Snook, Mrs. Emma Weller Metheny, Mary Headapohl, Mrs. Mollie Weber, Miss Lena Stelzer, Mrs. Enos Burkholder, Mrs. Carl Rhoda, Miss Gretchen Albert, Mrs. Phillip Dinkel, Mrs. Anna Walker, Mrs. Katherine Steiner, Mrs. Thiesing, Mrs. Martha Garmhausen. 

Charity Begins at Church

     
     The Women's Missionary Society was organized on November 7, 1904 by Rev. Paul H. Land, with the pastor's wife serving as the first president. 
     Other charitable groups such as the Nettie Snook Society formed in 1931, and the Girls Missionary Guild united in lending their support to the Women's Missionary Society. 

The Women's Missionary Society - 1963
President - Miss Martha Shaefer
Vice President - Mrs. Donald Coon
Secretary - Mrs. Ralph Burkholder
Treasurer - Mrs. Marvin Bucher

Front Row (Seated left to right)-

Mrs. John McNett, Mrs. Richard Vitz, Miss Martha Schaefer, Mrs. Ralph Burkholder, Mrs. Marvin Bucher, Mrs. Donald Coon, Miss Anna Klein, Mrs. Calvin Rable.

Second Row (Standing left to right)-

Rev. Richard P. Vitz, Mrs. Donald Crosson, Mrs. Roger Page, Mrs. Robert Nusbaum, Mrs. Donald Herold, Mrs. Douglas Hadding, Mrs. G.E. Herold, Mrs. Richard Dole, Mrs. Carl Rhoda, Mrs. Daniel Anthony, Mrs. William Kreher, Mrs. Lillian Gerstenlauer, Mrs. Lydia Stilgenbauer, Mrs. Grover Neumann, Mrs. Arnim Woll, Mrs. Ben Green, Mrs. Martha Garmhausen.