May 11, 2008  

CASTORLAND, N.Y. —  Lorenna Moser, 82, died Sunday morning at Lewis County Residential Healthcare Facility where she had resided since June. 

A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Naumburg Mennonite Church with the Revs. Titus Mast and Myron Roggie, pastors, and Julius Moser, retired pastor of Croghan Mennonite Church officiating. Burial in the Croghan Mennonite Cemetery will be private. 

Calling hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the church. Arrangements are with the Adirondack Funeral Home, Croghan. 

Born Feb. 11, 1926, in Copenhagen, daughter of Andrew and Emma Widrick Moser, she attended Copenhagen rural schools. 

She married Nelson Moser on Oct. 8, 1947, at the Lowville Mennonite Church. She and Nelson operated a dairy farm on the Number Three Road in Copenhagen.  

She was a member of the Naumburg Mennonite Sewing Circle, the Faithful Workers Sewing Circle at Lowville Mennonite Church, taught Sunday school and summer bible school and was active in many other church activities. She enjoyed embroidering. 

Besides her husband of Castorland, she is survived by three sons and their wives, Philip and Jane, Salisbury, Pa.; Dennis and Valerie, Castorland; Beryl and Ann, Grantsville, Md.; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Rosanna, Potsdam; Loretta, Lowville; Rebecca and Harlan Widrick, Lowville; and Priscilla and Sandy Lyndaker, Croghan; two brothers and their wives, Elmer and Kathleen, Castorland, and Elton and Maxine, Copenhagen; two sisters and their husbands, Florence and Wilbur Jantzi, Lowville, and Sharon and Delvin Mast, Grantsville, Md.;19 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, and cousins. 

A brother, Ellis Moser, and two sisters, her twin Loretta and Irene Zehr, died before her.

In place of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, Pa.; Naumburg Mennonite Sewing Circle, c/o Naumburg Mennonite Church, or Friends of Lewis County Hospice, Lowville.

Information provided by Adirondack Funeral Home, Croghan, and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.