Annie Funk: A Life that Made a Difference

Using special chalks, lighting and music, Bob Gerhart, of Bally, PA, will draw a portrayal of the life of pioneer missionary Annie C. Funk and her journey on the Titanic’s maiden voyage. Miss Funk had numerous connections to southeastern Pennsylvania. A Mennonite missionary, Annie C. Funk was a second class passenger on the ill-fated White Star Line’s newest and largest ocean liner. Miss Funk was enroute from India to Bally, Pennsylvania after serving six years as a missionary teacher. Her destination was her parents’ home near Clayton, three miles north of Bally. Annie Funk had celebrated her thirty-eight birthday on board the Titanic, just two days before the Titanic grazed the iceberg late on the night of April 14. In less than three hours the ship that was considered by many to be “practically unsinkable” had sunk!

The forty-five minute inspirational chalk presentation will take the viewer back to Miss Funk’s Pennsylvania homestead and then to her missionary activity in India before concluding with her journey on the ill-fated Titanic in 1912.