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Hannah Inez Kliewer
December 8, 1918 - July 5, 2008
Funeral Services for Hannah Inez Kliewer, 89, will be at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at the Mennonite Brethren Church of Fairview. The Reverends Brad Penner and Paul Bartel will officiate. Burial will follow in the South Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc. Viewing will be from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at Fairview Funeral Home Inc.
Hannah Inez (Martens) Kliewer was born December 8, 1918 to Dan and Anna (Just) Martens in a farmhouse a few miles northwest of Balko, Beaver County, Oklahoma. She died in the Fairview Fellowship Home July 5, 2008.
Among the many who celebrate her life and mourn her passing are the members of her immediate family, including her daughters Donna Beth and Marcia Anne and their husbands, respectively, Paul Wiebe and John Richard Shewey; her grandchildren Keith and Jill (Gohdes) Wiebe, Catherine Ann (Wiebe) Gingerich, Andy and Kerry (Langhofer) Shewey, Stan and Rebecca (Wichert) Shewey, and Dale and Shawna (Collom) Shewey; her great grandchildren Jacob Wiebe and Ryn Wiebe, Nathan, Matthew and Hannah Beth Gingerich, Clay and Grant Shewey, and Kierra, Vance and Kyra Shewey; her sister Mary Helen (Martens) Hein; and her two sisters-in-law Mabel (Schultz) Martens and Viola (Kliewer) Martens.
Her husband of 69 years, Herbert Anton Kliewer, preceded her in death in December, 2007. Other members of her immediate family who preceded her in death were her grandson-in-law Kenneth Gingerich, her sister Alice and her brothers Henderson and Harry.
Inez lived with her family on their farm in Beaver County through her early years, eventually attending three different elementary schools in the area. During one period, she rode the four miles between her home and school (sometimes alone) on her horse. During another period, when she was in Grade 3, she lived during the week with only her slightly older brother and sister for support and comfort in a largely empty farmhouse near the school they were attending together.
Inez and her family experienced the hard times of the “dust bowl” up close and personally -- the loss of crops, the shortages, the dimming of dreams and the “layers of dust everywhere”, during one particularly difficult stretch seeing her brother Henderson leave, with their blessing, for what promised to be a better life in California.
In 1935 the Martens family moved from Beaver County back to a farm west of Fairview, where they had lived before Inez was born. Inez graduated from high school in Fairview in 1936. She and her family attended the South Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, where she was baptized and became a member at age sixteen. And it was here that she met her husband-to-be, Herb Kliewer, whom she married April 24, 1938. Inez and Herb started their married life together on their farmstead a mile south of the Kliewer family farm four miles south and a mile east of Fairview. They built the Don-Mar Motel in Fairview in 1950, and then ran it for just over ten years. They then bought and managed the Coast to Coast store on Main Street for a number of years before Herb turned once again to something he really liked to do, this time to the building of Behlen steel farm, commercial and other buildings.
Busy as she always was alongside Herb in their work together, Inez was also involved independently in various civic endeavors, for instance for thirty-five years as a member of the Fairview Home Demonstration Club and for many years as a volunteer at the Fairview Hospital. Inez sang in her church's choir and belonged to its Women's Missionary Society. She taught one or another of the church's children's Sunday school classes for many years. In unity with her husband Herb, she was at all times faithful in her support of her church and its purposes both locally and around the world.
Mainly, Inez was a homemaker, and she made a wonderful home for her family in its various stages over the years. She had a fine eye for aesthetic quality, she liked to travel and to wonder about the differences of our world. She always looked to people and relationships, finding the remarkable grace with which she lived her life in the strengths and continuities of her people, her family, her church and her community.
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