Annita Irene Powers Wiese went to sleep in Jesus on June 13, 2021, just 7 days shy of her 90th birthday. She was born to Zina Clare and Irene Harrison Powers on June 20, 1931 in Charlotte, Michigan.
As a mother, she raised four children and many other honorary children were blessed as she opened her home and love. As a nurse, she spent her life helping others, always going the second and third miles for her patients. As a missionary to the Far East, she taught nursing students in unheated classrooms in the cold Korean winters, and taught conversational English to bankers and business men. She mothered the US servicemen who came to the mission compound for a Sabbath weekend, and mentored student missionaries away from home. Her goal was to Live to Bless Others.
We’ve been thinking of all the lives she touched and the story of the Butterfly Effect. If she’s touched your life, could you pass on a blessing to someone in her memory and tell us about it on a family members page or her Facebook page, Annita Wiese. That would be the greatest tribute to her.
Missions have always been her priority and she’s always “worked another shift” so that she could help some project that touched her heart. A memorial fund has been set up on KDZareSpecial.com to continue support for the projects she has been carrying on her heart – the Navaho Indian children, orphans in India, and Christian education in the mountains of Haiti.
We will be celebrating her life at morning graveside service on her 90th birthday, June 20 at 8:00 am CDT. She’ll be at rest beside her daughter, Lorelee, in the Thans Chapel Cemetery 458 Hudlow Road Dunlap, TN.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Zina Clare and Irene Powers, her sister, Jean Powers, her brothers Knox Powers and Cecil Powers and her daughter, Lorelee Hunt.
She peacefully went to sleep in Jesus at home with her family in Corinth, MS on June 13, 2021, leaving her family to carry on her work. Her husband, William Wiese, children, Brenda Palmer and husband Brent, Calvin Wiese and wife Tami, Claire Blum and husband Clyde, son-in-law, James Hunt and foster daughter, Christen Massey. She has 7 grandchildren and 9 great-grand children; Luther and Melita Palmer with Preston & Julianne, Knox and Summer Palmer, Cecil and Caroline Wiese with Samson and Cecile, Caleb and Katherine Wiese, Corbin Wiese, Christell Hunt with Daren, and Annalee and Jim Whitaker with Audriana, Lily, Casandra and Wendy. She also leaves her dear sisters and brother, Myriel Akershoek, Clarys Howell and Mark Powers, and many nieces and nephews.
