{"id":106413,"date":"2025-06-26T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/06\/26\/ethel-wiens\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:05:19","modified_gmt":"2027-12-13T05:05:19","slug":"ethel-wiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/06\/26\/ethel-wiens\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Wiens"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ethel Lillian Wiens, 94, wife of Frank C. Wiens, died June 5, 2025, at the Good Samaritan  Home in Mountain Lake, Minn.<br \/>\n\t  She was born April 25, 1931, in Lustre to Dietrich M. and Kathrine (Franz) Olfert at her parent\u2019s homestead. She finished  country grade school and attended Lustre Bible School. She then attended high school at Lustre Academy  and graduated from Salem  Academy. She later attended  and graduated from Grace Bible Institute.<br \/>\n\t  She was a student of Scripture,  writing many acrostic studies using  Bible  verses. She underlined her  Bible  in assorted colors to outline subjects like \u201cWhat God said\u201d, \u201cWhat do I need to do about it\u201d, \u201cGod\u2019s Promises\u201d, etc. She wrote greeting cards using the person\u2019s name with an acrostic of each letter of their first name accompanied by a  Bible  verse or phrase with that letter.<br \/>\n\t  She accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and committed her life to the Lord at a revival  meeting, was baptized and became a member of the Mennonite Brethren Church. After her marriage, she became  a member of the various  churches where she and her husband served.<br \/>\n\t  On June 17, 1952, she married  Frank C. Wiens, her high school sweetheart whom she met at Lustre Bible Academy. To this union, four children were born: Judith Perez (Quito,  Ecuador), James Wiens (Volgograd, Russia), Dr. Glenn Wiens (Grand Forks, N.D.) and Gary Wiens.<br \/>\n\t  She was a faithful pastor\u2019s wife, companion and prayer warrior in the pastorate and various missionary ministries.  She supported her <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106582,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106413\/revisions\/106582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106413"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=106413"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=106413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}