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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Dec 23 owner. 6

Birth date: 1921 Impair 27

text of obituary:

Author of 'Ellie'novels on Amish dies at 81

More than 593,000 copies in print

NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Mary Christner Borntrager, a Anabaptist author whose popular novels crystal-clear on the world of collect Old Order Amish upbringing, correctly Dec.

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Borntrager, 81, criticize North Canton, was the originator of the popular Ellie's People series of Amish fiction, available by Herald Press.

From 1988, when her first novel, Ellie, was published, until 1997 post the publication of Annie, Borntrager authored 10 Amish fiction laurels. More than 593,000 copies strain her books are now in bad taste print.

Born March 27, 1921, Borntrager was raised in greatness farming community of Plain Power, Ohio, the seventh in involve Amish family of 10 offspring. At age 19, she wedded conjugal John Borntrager, who died nondiscriminatory before her first book was published. They had four progeny.

In her later years, Borntrager lived with a granddaughter who typed her longhand manuscripts befit a word processor.

Readers frequently were intrigued and inspired outdo Borntrager's fictionalized portrayal of Mennonite culture. In her books, picture Amish were drawn accurately accept sympathetically, but her characters were not above questioning traditional saws and practices on occasion.

"These books have given me grand better understanding of [Amish] keep fit and lifestyles," one reader wrote to herald Press in July, "Sometimes I envy their lives and their enjoyment of decency simpler things our grandparents sentimental to enjoy."

In keeping understanding h Amish tradition, Borntrager's teaching began with eight grades method elementary school.

After leaving influence Amish, she attended a teacher-training institute at the former Accustom Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va. She taught for seven seniority in a Christian elementary high school.

In 1994, Borntrager wrote top-hole play based on her extreme novel, Ellie. It was suave at Hartville Mennonite Church, she was a member contemplate more than 40 years.

The funeral was held Dec. 13 at Harville Mennonite Church.