Inventory of the C. N. and Helen Hiebert Papers,
1919-1983
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Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the C. N. and Helen Hiebert Papers, 1919-1983
Record Group No.: M66
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies
Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, California
Contact Information:
- Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies
- Fresno Pacific University
- 1717 S. Chestnut Avenue
- Fresno, California, 93702
- Phone: (559) 453-2225
- Fax: (559) 453-2124
- Email: kennsrem@fresno.edu
- URL: http://sunthree.fresno.edu/affiliation/cmbs
- Processed by:
- Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies staff
- Encoded by:
- Gabriela A. Montoya
© 1999 Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: C. N. and Helen Hiebert Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1919-1983
Record Group No: M66
Creator:
Hiebert, C. N. (Cornelius N.), 1881-1975
Hiebert, Helen, 1893-1983
Extent: 3.3 linear ft.; 7 sound tape reels; 2 sound tape cassettes
Repository:
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies (Fresno, Calif.).
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], C. N. and Helen Hiebert Papers, M66, Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Fresno, Calif.
Biography
Cornelius N. Hiebert was born 24 March 1881 near Mountain Lake, Minnesota, to Nicholas C. and Mary Wiens Hiebert. He attended
public schools in Mountain Lake from 1888 until 1901 and in 1902 began work as a Bible colporteur and evangelist.
During 1921-1922 Hiebert attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Shortly after completing his work there he and his wife
Tina moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he became the pastor of the North End Mennonite Brethren Church (today known as Elmwood
Mennonite Brethren Church). The Hieberts left the North End church in 1941 and he worked as an evangelist for several years
after that.
In 1942 Tina Hiebert died. The following year C. N. Hiebert married his late wife's sister, Helen Harms. She was born 24 May
1893 near Lehigh, Kansas, and was later a member of the Medford (Okla.) Mennonite Brethren Church. Helen attended Tabor College
in Hillsboro, Kansas, and taught school for twenty-six years after completing her studies there.
From 1948 to 1950 the Hieberts ministered in South America among Mennonite settlers there and from 1952 to 1954 as missionaries
to Germany under the Mennonite Brethren Board of Foreign Missions. Between overseas assignments and after their return from
Germany the Hieberts lived in Hillsboro, Kansas.
After his retirement from active ministry, the Hieberts moved to Reedley, California in about 1956. C. N. Hiebert died in
Reedley on 26 January 1975; Helen Hiebert died there on 2 March 1983.
Additional information about C. N. and Helen Hiebert may found in a book written by his daughter Esther Hiebert Horch entitled,
C. N. Hiebert Was My Father (Winnipeg: Board of Publications of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, 1979).
Scope and Content
This record group contains sermon outline notes, class notes, autobiographical material, clippings, annotated Bibles, sound
tape reels and sound tape cassettes, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and other material relating to C. N. and Helen Hiebert.
Organization and Arrangement of the Collection
This record group is organized into two subgroups:
Title: I. C. N. Hiebert Papers, 1919-1975;
Title: II. Helen Harms Hiebert Papers, 1948-1983.
Languages Appearing in the Collection
Some sermon outlines are in German Gothic script.
Series 1: C. N. Hiebert Papers
Children's sermon outline notes
List of persons baptized and married, 1919-1941
Obituary and funeral sermon for Tina Harms Hiebert, 1942
Autobiographical material
Funeral program and obituary, 1975
80th birthday celebration, 1961
Memorial service in Winnipeg , 1975
Series 2: Helen Harms Hiebert Papers
Box Box 7
South America diary and scrapbook, 1948-1950
Box Box 8
Diary: "Our Work in Europe From 1952 to 1954," 1952-1954
"The Story of My Father, David Harms," 1968
