This is a note from the newsletter “China Inland Mission Monthly Notes”, published in Shanghai, Volume Thirty-Seven, No. 2, February, 1931.
“Mrs. H. Pfannemuller”
We much regret to announce the death of our sister Mrs. Pfannemuller on January 28, at 11.30 p.m. from pneumonia.
Mrs. Pfannemuller, as Miss Ida Halbach, arrived in China from Germany on April 4, 1899, and first labored for nearly three years in the province of Chekiang. On her marriage to Mr. Pfannemuller early in 1903 she was transferred to Nanfeng, Ki., where she labored with her husband with little interruption until her death.
Her life was marked by a steady and faithful continuance in well-doing. She was always ready and willing, either for service or for the endurance of hardship. Her kindness and hospitality, also, will never be forgotten by those who stayed in her home; and all who have known her will mourn her loss.
Her health broke down under the strain of the recent Communistic disturbances in Kiangsi, where both she and her husband had narrow escapes, and their passages home for furlough were booked through this office for February 3. They were looking forward to re-union with their friends in Germany after an absence of many years. They arrived in Shanghai on January 12, a few days after which Mrs. Pfannemuller was taken ill. Only on January 24 did the illness seem serious enough to necessitate the cancelling of the passage. But her passage had been booked by an Unseen Hand for a better country; and she left us for a better furlough, and a better re-union. Her works follow her. We commend the sorrowing husband, son, and relatives to the prayers of all in the fellowship of the C.I.M.