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SHE RECITES BIBLE CHAPTERS - SHARP AT 90
[Article from Wenatchee (Washington) World, Friday, 7 January, 1972, P. 6.]
In her room at Highline Nursing Home, Mrs. Beatrix Mumma shows a recently-completed afghan to her young visitors, Patty Black, left, and Diane Regehr. This afghan, 41/2 by 6 feet, took three weeks to make but Mrs. Mumma told the girls she was "ashamed to say" it took that long because she's produced others in less time. The girls are among Free Methodist youth who have been visiting nursing home residents, and who were impressed with Mrs. Mumma's many sewing projects and ability to recite several chapters of the Bible.
Her memory for biblical passages has impressed Free Methodist youth who visit perky Mrs. Beatrix Mumma at Highline Nursing Home.
They remember one time during prayer a Biblical phrase a visitor used triggered her memory for the rest of the chapter. Mrs. Mumma says she can quote four New Testament chapters and 17 Psalms, but hat she has problems mixing some of the verses up now that she's getting older.
She will be 90 on Feb. 16--a birthday she shares with several relatives. Her memory work, though, has made its impression on the Free Methodist youth--whose church group has been visiting residents at the Eastside nursing home. Their Church emphasizes scriptural memorization. How did she memorize so much? "I used to put a Bible on my sewing machine," she says.
Ever busy with sewing and crafts, she says she still manages to reread the Psalms and New Testament four times a year. Craftwork of all sorts brightens the walls of her room. Afghans she's made are now in homes from Montana to Georgia. A baby item she made ended up in India, where a woman sent it to a missionary.
Friends say that Mrs. Mumma is not only serious about her Bible reading, but that she also makes sure a portion of earnings from needlework and crafts goes to missions and to worship services at the nursing home.
Not a native of this area, Mrs. Mumma came west from Nebraska, living in Omak and Oroville, and attending the Free Methodist Church there. She lived in King's Gardens 1955-1962 before coming to East Wenatchee.
KATIE MUMMA - Obituary
Katie B. Mumma, 92, East Wenatchee, died in a local convalescent center early Sunday morning following a sudden illness.
She was born on Feb. 16, 1882, at Tobias, Neb., and lived her early life there. On Sept. 12, 1900, she was married to Fred K. Mumma in Daykin, Neb. They farmed in Western Nebraska from 1910 to 1924 when they moved to Lost Springs, Wyo.
In 1928 the family came to Oroville, farming until about 1946 when they semi-retired and moved to Redmond.
Mr. Mumma preceded her in death in 1959. Mrs. Mumma moved to East Wenatchee in 1962.
Mrs. Mumma was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.
Surviving are two sons, Clyde F. Mumma, East Wenatchee, and Fred F. Mumma, Kirkland; one daughter, Mrs. E.F. ((Velma) Nelson, Oroville; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Houck, Nebraska; four grandchildren, one step-granddaughter; ten great-grandchildren, three step-great-grandchildren, and fifteen great-great-grand-children.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by six brothers, one son, one daughter, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services are announced by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
FUNERAL NOTICE
MRS. KATIE B. MUMMA--Funeral services will be conducted in Telford's Chapel of the Valley Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock with Mr. Paul Yeager officiating. concluding interment services will follow in Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bellevue at 3:30 p.m. Arrangements are by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
Obituary and funeral notice from Wenatchee (Washington) World, 14 October, 1974.