Annie Funk

Annie Clemmer Funk ( born April 12, 1874 in Bally, Pennsylvania, USA, † April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic during the sinking of the Titanic ) was an American missionary.

Life

Annie radio was the daughter of James Bechtel radio (1845-1929), the wealthy owner of a flour mill and deacon of the Mennonite Church of Bally, and his wife Susanna " Susan " Funk, born Clemmer ( 1845-1913 ). Their ancestors were themselves emigrants from Germany, the end of the 18th century settled in Bally. Annie was the youngest of six children.

After the School in West Chester, Pennsylvania visiting radio graduated from the Mennonite school in Northfield (Massachusetts ). After graduating radio began in the ghettos of Chattanooga (Tennessee ) and Paterson (New Jersey) to work, but always dreamed of being a missionary.

This was in 1906 a reality in December when it was sent as the first female Mennonite missionary to India. In Janjgir - Champa, they should work in the coming years, where they have a school for 17 girls was opened in July 1907 she also taught. They also learned Hindi.

A telegram, which she received in late March 1912 and which stated that her mother was seriously ill, radio prompted to begin the journey back to Bally. By train they drove up to Bombay, booked the Persian and reached to her Marseille in France. By train and ship reached Liverpool. Originally, it was to go on board the Haverford to America, but due to the coal strike, she was forced to rebook on the Titanic. On the Haverford originally a first-class passenger on the Titanic radio was now passenger of the Second Class. On the Titanic, she celebrated her 38th birthday. On the night of 15 April 1912, she was lying in bed when the collision occurred with the iceberg. It arrived on the boat deck and was just about to board a lifeboat, as a desperate mother came running with their children. Annie radio stepped aside, leaving this to the last place in the boat. Your compassionate behavior cost them that night life, one of the few women of the Second Class. Her body, if recovered, was never identified.

Appreciation

In memory of her school in India, which she had founded was renamed Annie Funk Memorial School. The attached at the school plaque honors Annie C. Funk life's work with the following words: " She was coming home on her first furlough, When Death overtook her in the wreck of the steamship Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland Her life was one of service in. the spirit of the master - not to be ministered unto but to minister ".