Sister Fanny Mettelmann and her husband housed the missionaries of the Swiss German mission in the 1930's in Kiel, Germany. They were active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brother Mettelmann was killed in 1944 as the allies bombed Kiel. After the war, Sister Mettelmann immigrated to Bedford, (Star Valley) Wyoming where she lived with Lisette Fluckiger. After Lisette passed away, Sister Mettelmann moved into the small house of Merryanne Heimann, mother of Gretel Fluckiger. There she lived with Merryanne, another faithful saint from Kiel, and was taken care of by Gretel Fluckiger and her family until her death in 1973.
Merryanne Heimann's granddaughter, Verna and her husband met the son of a Swiss-German missionary (Alvin Carpenter) who had lived with the Mettelmann's. Alvin's son Don, shared his father's history and the following quote from his journal, "While in Kiel the missionaries lived at Brother and Sister Mettelmann's. They were very good Church members and did much to help us."
Sie ist verheiratet mit Wilhelm Metelmann.
Sie haben geheiratet am 17. Oktober 1899 in Kiel, Landeshauptstadt Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein , sie war 21 Jahre alt.Quelle 1
Fanny Wilhelmine Butenschön | ||||||||||
1899 | ||||||||||
Wilhelm Metelmann |