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Annie Funk
Annie Clemmer Funk (12 April 1874 15 April 1912) was an American Christian missionary, who was one of the 1500 people who perished onboard ''Titanic''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.titanic-titanic.com/annie_clemmer_funk.shtml )〕 Since 1906, she was a missionary in the Janjgir-Champa district in Chhattisgarh, India. She was on her way to visit her ailing mother.
==Early life==
Annie Funk was born on 12 April 1874 in the small town of Bally, Pennsylvania. Her ancestors, who settled there in 1700s, were Mennonite emigrants from Germany. Miss Funk attended the State Normal School at West Chester.
Her home congregation, the Hereford General Conference Mennonite Church, where her father was a deacon for 25 years, nurtured her interest in missions from childhood. She attended the Northfield Bible Training School in Northfield, Massachusetts that D. L. Moody had begun. After graduation, she worked with the immigrants in the slums of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Paterson, New Jersey. She dreamt of being a missionary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/annie-clemmer-funk.html )〕
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