in 1984 in which he defended traditional Mennonite beliefs against the influences of Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Retirement Widmer retired from his work at Christ Seul in 1984, turning his editors desk over to his son-in-law from his second marriage, Pierre Lugbull. In 1993 his second wife Christianne Buy died. As his health deteriorated, Widmer withdrew as Ancien from the Montbéliard church in 1997. He died in Montbéliard in 1999 at the age of 87. Notes French Mennonites 1912 births 1999 deaths Mennonite ministers 20th-century Anabaptist ministers