Anna Grace (Wiens) Flickinger  |1922-2022| 

Anna Grace (Wiens) Flickinger, 100, died peacefully September 28, 2022, in Inman. Anna Grace was born September 11, 1922, to Martin and Nettie (Vogt) Wiens in rural Inman. She married Virgil Flickinger on August 10, 1949, and they shared 37 years of marriage before his death in 1986.

Education and service were important to Anna Grace. She taught first grade in various schools in Kansas before she and Virgil spent two years volunteering with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) doing relief work in Europe from 1950-1952. They spent a year in Naples, Italy, and another year in Germany, briefly in Berlin, but mainly in Kaiserslautern.

Together they raised their family in Inman, where Anna Grace was active in church and community activities and organizations, as well as driving a Kindergarten bus route for Inman Grade School, and working at Pleasant View Home as a CMA.

She enjoyed reading, quiltmaking, music, travel, and genealogy “in that order”.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Virgil; parents, Martin D. and Nettie (Vogt) Wiens; sisters, Hilda (Wiens) Wiens and Kathrien (Wiens) Wedel; and brother, Ervin J. Wiens.

Surviving are her children, Carol Flickinger (Roger Juhnke) of Newton, Jim Flickinger of Newton, Jean (Russ) Gaeddert of Hutchinson, and Nancy (Jeff) Friesen of Inman; grandchildren, Adam Gaeddert (Rebecca Woodruff), Sam (Keila) Gaeddert, Jake (Rebecca) Friesen, and Jared Friesen; and great-grandchildren, Clara and Eleanor Gaeddert, Jackson and Wesley Gaeddert.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, October 1, 2022 at Bethel Mennonite Church. Private graveside services will be held at Inman North Cemetery. Visitation will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Friday, September 30, at the church, with family present from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.