The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-02-11
WAS WOMAN OF DEEP DEVOTION
Had Been Active With Her Husband in
the Affairs of the Church at Zion and
Throughout the World-Death Causes
Deep Sorrow in Zion.

Mrs. Mollie Steele oliva, wife of
Rev. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general
overseer of the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church in Zion and successor
to John Alexander Dowie, passed away
Thursday night at Has at the home
in Zion City. For sixteen months she
suffered with complaint known by the
medical profession as lwnphangitis, an
affection of the lymphatic. glands.
The complaint started in the throat
and neck and terminated in acute gas
tritis. This change was what is known
to the medical profession as varicose
action. The affection went to the
stomach on Wednesday night and was
really the cause of her death.
Mrs. Voliva was born at Palestine,
Illinois, in the year 1870. She attend
ed the public Schools and was grad
uate of the Palestine high school, where
she taught for two years. She also
attended the Union Christian College
at Merom, Indiana. She was the
daughter of DR.. Nathaniel Steele of
Palestine. She was brought up Pres
byterian and was married to Rev. Will
bur Glenn Voliva at Palestine on Aug.
the 18th, 1892. Her parents were Pres
byterians and she was reared in the
Presbyterian Church. Later, she be-
came member of the Christian Con
nection or New Light Church at York
Harbor, Maine, which church Overseer
Voliva became pastor Of, Oversee1
Voliva went into tile ministry at
Urbana, Illinois, in 1892 Together with
his wife, they attended the Theological
Seminary at Stanfordville near POUCH
keepsie, New York. They then moved
to Hiram, O., where Rev. Voliva at
tended Hiram College and graduated in
1897 He then served as pastor in
Washington Court House, O., for two
years and united with Zion in the city
of Chicago in 1899. He was also in
charge of Zion s work on the north
side, Chicago, for one year. He was
also in charge of Zion s work in Gin
cinnati for eight months and then
served as first assistant to John Alex.
ander Dowie, who later sent him tc
Australia in the year 1901. Rev. Viii.
bur Glenn Voliva worked for -four
years in Australia, and was recalled to
Zion City in 1905 on account Of the
failure to the health Of John Alexander
Dowie. Since that time he has been
general oyerseer of the Christian
Catholic Apostolic Church is Zior
throughout the world.
The news of Mrs. Voliva' s death
caused a hard blow to Zion people
She was quiet in demeanor, She toiled
quietly but faithfully with her husband
all through the years which he served
III the ministry. She was woman who
never meddled in other people s bust
ness and for that reason was much be
loved by everybody who met her. AS
the wife of the general overseer OF
Zion, she could have exerted much in
fluence and used a good deal of authori-
". IL 1holIo VI Uuc CnuICu, Uul
she was modest and retiring and always
wanted to keep in the background AS
a faithful co-worker with her husband
those who knew her believed her as
having no equal. Kindly towards Wis.
ltors and patient and forbearing, she
made an ideal wife. When Voliva was
obliged to live on small salary in his
early ministry, she shared the scanty
pay which he received for months, and
was never known to murmur or com
plain. In public meetings she had lit
tie or nothing to say. She was not a
woman given to talk and was far from
being mannish in her actions. In her
dress she was extremely quiet and mod
est, all ostentation or show was
foreign to her. Her dresses were made
OF the simplest material; and for years
she attended to most of the affairs of
her household. She was faithful to the
end to the Zion teaching and firmly be.
lleved in Divine Healing. She was at
tended by DR.. n. J. LaRose, the health
commissioner at Zion City, who visited
her during her illness; also Mrs. Hol
llngsworth "a trained nurse.
They have one child, Ruth Voliva,
xx-l- l.