Janet H Schneidermann

George, IA Janet H. Schneidermann, age 89 of George, IA died Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at the Good Samaritan Center in George, IA. Funeral service will be 10:30 AM, Monday, January 19th at First Baptist Church, rural George, with Rev. Steve May officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday, Jan. 18th with the family receiving friends from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Jurrens Funeral Home of George. Janet Schneidermann was born Nov 4, 1919 to Tom and Jessie (Krull) Schneidermann at Little Rock, IA. She spent her childhood in the Little Rock area and attended country school there. She was somewhat of a Tom Boy loving the outdoors and playing with her younger brother Harm whom she loved dearly. At the age of 17 she put her faith in Christ as her personal Savior. The following year she felt called to serve Christ in some type of full time work. She enrolled in Northwestern Bible School at Minneapolis, MN where she attended four years. While there she committed her life to serving the Lord full time, as a missionary. At the age of 26, in 1946 she left Iowa and began the journey of a lifetime. She took the train from Sheldon, which eventually took her to New York City, New York. She had been accepted by Sudan Interior Mission to become a missionary in Africa. In New York she along with one other female missionary, boarded a freighter ship bound for Nigeria, Africa. They spent 6 weeks on this ship before arriving at the coast of Africa. She attended language school at Minna, Nigeria then was sent up country to Gashua, Nigeria where she spent the next almost 40 years spreading the gospel to anyone who would listen. She lived on a compound with several other missionaries. They would travel from there to outlying areas. Later when due to government unrest and religious uprisings the Mission asked her to leave the area for her own safety. She then moved to Tofa, Nigeria where she taught Bible in a Training School. On the week ends she would travel on the bus into Kano to share the Gospel with those traveling on the bus with her. She remained at Tofa until the Spring of 1999 when SIM requested she come back to the US. She was then 80 years of age. She had spent over 50 years of her life in Africa. A land she had adopted as her home and her people. She always said my children are in Africa and some day you can meet them when we all get to Heaven, as she was faithful in leading them to the Lord. After returning to America she settled in Sibley at the Sr Citizens Apartment. There she continued her mission work as she went door to door giving out literature and witnessing. On October 1, 2003 she became a resident of Country View Manor where she lived until a fall in Sept of 2005 caused her to break her hip. After surgery and a week in the Sioux Valley Hospital she was transferred to the Alzheimer Unit at Good Samaritan Center, George, IA. where she remained until the Lord took her Home early Thursday morning, Jan 14 at the age of 89. What a reunion she is having today! Janet is survived by one sister, Wanda Johnson, brother in-law Arlyn of George and one sister-in-law Marilyn Schneidermann of Sibley, as well as a host of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Jessie, one sister, Helen, and three brothers, Harm, Floyd, and Kriene. Please designate memorials to: Gideons or Good Samaritain Society in George.