Menno-Friendly Benefit Association (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Menno-Friendly Benefit (Beneficial) Association was a mutual burial aid association organized about 1908 in the First Mennonite Church (GCM) of Philadelphia to serve General Conference Mennonites in the Philadelphia area. Up to 1 January 1944, it had paid $28,500 in benefits. Its assessment rate in 1953 was 50ยข per month. It aided members in times of disability and death.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 585; vol. 4, p. 1105. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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