HILLSBORO FREE PRESS, 29 March 2000
Obituary of ABRAHAM B. EITZEN
Services for Abraham B. Eitzen, 101, farmer, were held March 11 at Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, Fairview, Okla., with Gary Janzen officiating. Eitzen died March 8.

He was born Sept. 24, 1898, to Daniel A. and Helena Bekker Eitzen on a farm near Hillsboro. On Oct. 29, 1922, he was married to Rubena Hein, who predeceased him.

Survivors include four sons, Kenneth and wife Norma Jean, Wesley and wife Lauretta, Gene and wife Stella Jane, and Robert and wife Jane, all of Fairview; a son-in-law, Wes Braun of Topeka; a sister, Helen Seibel of Hillsboro; 24 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Transcribed and Contributed by Janice Reading