Notes

Surname ListsSurname Lists    SearchSearch    PrintPrint    Login - User: anonymousLogin    Add BookmarkAdd Bookmark

Matches 2001 to 3000 of 7350

      «Prev 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 ... 8» Next»

   Notes   Linked to 
2001 This couple had a total of 7 children. Mary Friesen
 
2002 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2003 Source: Brotherfield Book pg 60 and 61 Mathilda Friesen
 
2004 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2005 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2006 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2007 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2008 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2009 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2010 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2011 Source name page 300 Waldheim book Robert James Friesen
 
2012 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2013 One record says he was born 1 Oct 1923. Rudolf Friesen
 
2014 Bethesda-Henderson Book II p. 411: baptized by Abraham W. Friesen. Bethesda-Henderson Book II p. 458: married by Abraham W. Friesen. Rudolph J. Friesen
 
2015 CSW 15; PL 296; B144. The Sommerfelder record says she was born 29 Feb 1849, but 1849 was not a leap year. Homesteaded NE14-40-3W3. Sara Friesen
 
2016 Married by Cornelius L. Friesen. One record says she was born at Jansen, Nebraska. Sara J. Friesen
 
2017 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2018 S. S. Frisia; Arrived New York, New York Susanna S. Friesen
 
2019 The Buhler records and her Zionsbote obituary say she was born 26 Jan 1855. Her obituary says she was born in Mariental, South Russia. The obituary also gives marriage date of 28 June 1871.
Her daughter Maria's entry in the Corn records incorrectly calls her mother "Maria." 		Susanna S. Friesen
 
2020 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2021 obit-A Garden City resident since 1917, moving from Jansen, he was a farmer. Theodore W. "Ted" Friesen
 
2022 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2023 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2024 1996 leben sie in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. William Dietrich Friesen
 
2025 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2026 Canada Anna Froese
 
2027 Hebron Kirchenbuch p. 324: buried in Hebron cemetery. Bernhard P. Froese
 
2028 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2029 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2030 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2031 Hebron Kirchenbuch p. 445: "MB". Says she was born 12 Jun 1902. She died of colon cancer. Emma Frances Froese
 
2032 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2033 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2034 GRANDMA #14710. She had nine children with Isaac harms. All but the last born in Russia. Katharina Froese
 
2035 One family record says she was born in 1835. Her first name is given as Maria and her age is given as 36 on the ship passenger list in 1875, both of which are apparently incorrect. Katharina Froese
 
2036 S. S. State Of Nevada; Arrived New York, New York Katharina Froese
 
2037 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2038 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2039 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2040 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2041 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2042 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2043 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2044 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2045 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2046 Mother died when he was 12 days old so raised by grandmother and later by stepmother.
1923 Attended schools in Bingham Lake and Windom.
1960 Farmed in Mountain Lake, MN for 23 years 		Orlando Fuller
 
2047 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2048 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2049 P476 Georgen Funck
 
2050 P480 Hans Funck
 
2051 P477 Hinrich Funck
 
2052 P478 Jacob Funck
 
2053 P481 Liscke Funck
 
2054 P8, P475 "Church Records" p. 2: "Steffer Funck is the first one of this name in our congregation. He came from another group but became devoted to our religion. He was married twice. By his first marriage, he had two sons who are Nos. 476 and 477. His first wife's name and origin are not known. The other wife was named Trincke Swelers, and her origin is not known. She died April 4, 1733 at the age of 60. Four children were born to this marriage: Nos. 478, 479, 480 and 481. His residence during both marriages was at Schoensee. Steffer Funck
 
2055 "Church Records" p. 18: "Before baptism he made his home (on the other side) where he also married; but one of his daughters, Sarke, number 484, later joined our congregation." P479 Tohms Funck
 
2056 (A-482) _____ Funck
 
2057 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2058 His n.s. birth date was 15 Nov 1912. Joined Bergthal Church in 1937. 7 children. Abram A. Funk
 
2059 Mexico Abram A. Funk
 
2060 Horndean, Manitoba Abram H. Funk
 
2061 Mexico Abram H. Funk
 
2062 One record says he was born in Alexanderkrone, Molotschna and that he married JE on 26 Oct 1918.
Joined M B Congregation in 18th year. An Abram H Funk is shown on Alexanderthal 1917 map on same yard as Goossen. No Heinrich is listed. Abram served in alternative service in Russia in WWI as Army cook and guard from 1914-1917. Abe, Justina and 4 of the children went to Mexico and then Canada. Isaak immigrated later on his own. 		Abram H. Funk
 
2063 Baptismal date is not given in the Bergthal Book, but 1941 is the date given for joining the Bergthal Church. Aganetha "Neta" Funk
 
2064 Mexico Aganetha "Neta" Funk
 
2065 Her age is shown as 19 on the 1900 census for Stutsman county, ND. She was born in 1881 not 1880, only 3 months after her father's first wife katharina Adrian had died. -md Aganetha "Nettie" Funk
 
2066 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Agnes Funk
 
2067 She isn't listed on the Vaderland ship passenger list, but must have immigrated then as the rest of her family is listed on the passenger list. Agnes Funk
 
2068 Birth Source: Vote, Betty (b.1944) email dated 4 May 2001 Birth Source: Duerksen Family Sheets genealogy chart and diary Death Source: Vote, Betty (b.1944) email dated 4 May 2001 Death Source: Wall Family Genealogy Immigration Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need , page 295. Cliff Wall reports Anna died giving birth, and that, "She was born in Crimea where she married Henry Wall". Check death year 1880 or 1882? Anna Funk
 
2069 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2070 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Anna Funk
 
2071 She lived in Alexanderthal, Molotschna. Anna Funk
 
2072 She was found dead in the field--perhaps a heart attack. Anna Funk
 
2073 She was raised by Jakob Buhler (1899-1981, #429271) and Helena Hiebert (1902-1999, #429297). Anna Funk
 
2074 THE JAMESTOWN SUN March 5, 1948 Page 1

Mrs. Jacob Thiesen, Woodworth Pioneer, Dies Today At Noon

Mrs. Jacob Thiesen, Jamestown, who with her husband took up a homestead in Lowery township 51 years ago, died at Trinity Hospital at 11:25 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Thiesen was born at Marion, S.D., September 15, 1879. She receiv ed her education there. Mr. and Mrs. Thiesen were married in Napoleon in 1897. Mr. Thiesen died August 8, 1945 and Mrs. Thiesen made her home on the farm until coming to Jamestown last fall to make her home with her son Ben at 113 Fifth Street Southeast. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. They were the parents of 12 children. Surviving are the following sons and daughters: Ben, Jamestown; Aaron and David, Carrington; Henry, Edmunds; Daniel and Mrs. William Siebold, Sykeston; Mrs. Eli Wentland and Mrs. Normal Moores, Freewater, Ore.; Mrs. Wil liam Hinger, Pettibone; Mrs. Everett West, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. Minnie Bar tlett, Milwaukee, Ore.; 20 grandchildren; and the following half brothers and sisters: Mrs. John Sperling, Woodworth; Mrs. Willard Wentland, Chicago; Mrs. Julius Kurtz, Mrs. John Rowe, and Mrs. Jacob Huengardt, Sykeston; Irvin Funk, Des Moines, Iowa; Henry and David Funk, Mrs. Elmer Billof f, Shafter, Calif. Funeral arrangements have not been made. The body is at the Daly-Peters on Funeral Home.

March 8, 1948 Page 3
Funeral Services For Mrs. J. Thiesen Set
Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob Thiesen will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Short services will be held at the Daly-Peterson Funeral Chapel preceedi ng the church services. Rev. R.A. Necker, pastor of the church, wi ll be in charge.

March 12, 1948 Page 3
Last Rites Held For Mrs. Jacob Thiesen Thursday Afternoon. Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob Thiesen were held at the Seventh Day Adve ntist church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Richard Necker, assisted by Rev. W.K. Chapman, was in charge of t he services. Mrs. Necker played as the friends gathered at and left the church and was accompanist for Laverne Opp, Millarton, who sang "Wonderf ul Morning." Rev. I.E. Anunsen was accompanist for Mrs. Necker and Mr. Opp who sang "Be Thou Near" and "Sweet Be Thy Rest." Burial will be made in the family lot in the New Home Cemetery. Pallbear ers were Ernest Haas, Solomon Schroeder, Willis Biloff, Roger Hinger, Clar ence Loewen and Arthur Spurling. Here from out of the city were Arthur Thiesen, Carrington; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thiesen, Edmunds; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thiesen and Linda, Sykeston; Ro ger and Shirley Hinger and Glenn and Gladys Siebol, Sheyenne River Academ y, Harvey and Marjorie and Valerie Seibold, Fargo.

from Marvin Dirksen:
They had a great big barn. Next to their acreage was a lake two miles lo ng and 1/2 mile wide. People would go and hunt ducks.

GM v4.16 #494389 		Anna Funk
 
2075 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2076 Died of Tuberculosis Barbara Funk
 
2077 His age is incorrectly given as 11 in the Hamburg indirect passenger list in 1876. His age is incorrectly given as 11 in the Celtic passenger list in 1876. Benjamin Funk
 
2078 S. S. Celtic; Arrived New York, New York Benjamin Funk
 
2079 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2080 One of 3 children in coffins unearthed by Willis Seibold in 1995.

Daniel's Sister Lillian Funk Wentland said he was 5 at death. 		Daniel Funk
 
2081 GRANDMA #399460
Birth Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need , page 295Birth Source: Vote, Betty: email dated 22 Apr 2001 Birth Source: 1880 US Census, Kansas, Harvey County Death Source: Vote, Betty; e-mail on 27 Apr 2001. In the 1880 U. S. Census he is listed in Turner Co., Dakota Territory. Abraham Adam Dirksen's family tree note #11 states, "David Funk was a cousin to my mother Sarah Funk." confirming that his father Heinrich Funk was the brother of Peter P Funk. 1873-74 Molotschna School Registers Funk (Heinrich) David age 12. Alexanderthal 12 DAVID 62 Henry F, Anna Russia Jan 16, 1924 New Home R57-72Immigration Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need , page 295Marriage Source: 1900 US Census, North Dakota, Stutsman County, North Dakota Marriage Source: 1880 US Census, Dakota Territory, Turner County. A letter from his grand neice and daughter-in-law Ellen Kurtz Funk says he died in 1922. Bette Vote says he died in New Home, ND but there is no marker with his name. His second wife Nettie, and three children, were the probable occupants of graves accidently uncovered in 1995 by Willis Siebold on section 10 Lowery township, Stutsman Co, ND. George Barron of Jamestown, ND wrote a lot about the circumstances. Ellen Kurtz Funk wrote that two of the children died of diptheria, and that Nettie and the third child died during childbirth. -md
Information on Lizzie's commitment papers in 1922, (probably supplied by h usband Henry), indicated that David Funk died about two years ago "at t he age of 60 or 65." If he was born in 1848, he would have been 72 at h is death. If he were 60 or 65 at death, his birth date would have been 18 55 or l860.

Death certificate gives his birth as April 29, 1861, and death date as Jan uary 16, 1924.

from 1880 Turner County census
David Funk19Married before census yearRRP Agganeta14 (difficult to read;RRR
probably 19) Anna9/12DakRR Anna Funk63Mother/WidowPPP

1885 Dakota Census
David Funk24FarmerRRG Aganehta24RRPol Anna67Mother/WidowGGG Anna5DakRR Aganetha4DakRR Elisabeth2DakRR Sarahl/12 AprDakRR

From 1910 Stutsman County Census Enum Dist 220 Sup Dist 1 Sheet 14 May 17, 1910
David Funk49 Married 3 times/23 yrsRRG Farmer, General, O.A. O.M.F. 133 Immigrated 1876, NA Speaks English Marie42Married once/23 yrsRRR 11 children, 8 living Immigrated 1879, NA Speaks German Sarah25SDRR David22Laborer on farmSDRR Mary20SDRR Maggie11NDRR Lillian9NDRR Alma6NDRR Henry4NDRR Alice2NDRR Erwin2/12NDRR

from Woodworth Rustler 1986 Page 24
CHURCHES
New Home Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Several years before the turn of the century a group of about 30 Seventh-d ay Adventists and their children met in a sod house located on Secti on 10 of Lowery Township, and as their number grew they moved from this s od house to a larger sod house located on the northwest quarter of Secti on 14 of Lowery Township. This was homesteaded by Cornelius D. Unru h. In January of 1901 they organized as a church with David Funk, S r. as elder. The charter members were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bohl, Mr. and Mr s. Henry Dirksen, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dirksen, Mr. and Mrs. John Dirksen, M r. and Mrs. David Funk, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. John Hiebert, Mr. and Mrs. Pet er Hiebert, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Heinrichs, Mr. and Mrs. John Rau, Mr. and M rs. Frank Richert, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. George Sperli ng, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sperling, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stern, Mr. a nd Mrs. Jacob Thiesen, Mr. and Mrs. David Toews, Mr. and Mrs.Daniel Unru h, Mr. and Mrs. John Voth and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wall.

In 1903 a plot of land was acquired on the southwest corner of the southea st quarter of Section 2 in Lowery Township and a church building was erect ed with William Wentland in charge as carpenter.

A parochial school was operated by the New Home Seventh-day Adventist Chur ch from 1901 to 1905 with Fred Specht and Anna Olson as teachers. In 19 17 to 1918 the school was again in operation and taught by Jacob Richar ds and also in 1923 to 1924 when it was taught by Harry Wentland.

The records show a membership of 149 in 1933. In 1937 a group from the Ha wksnest area withdrew their membership to form a congregation of their o wn known as the Pleasant Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The church building was remodeled in the early 1930's and again in 195 2. On April 7, 1953 the church building and all its contents were destroy ed by fire. Plans were made to rebuild with Waldemar Gottfried in char ge as carpenter, the congreation met in the new building for services on D ecember 5, eight months after the fire. In 1982 this building was remodel ed to provide more space.

At present the membership is 61, and officers are as follows: Head Elde r, Lawrence Stolz; Head Deacon, Russell Rexin; Clerk, Mr. Lawrence Stol z; Treasurer, Merlyn Gottfried. The church operates a Community Service O rganization of which Mrs. Jake Bohl, Jr. is the leader. 		David Funk
 
2082 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania David Funk
 
2083 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2084 S. S. Nederland; arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elisabeth Funk
 
2085 GRANDMA #547033 Elisabeth "Lizzie" Funk
 
2086 I have merged her with GRANDMA #60202. Here is record of the birth of Elizabeth Funk ELISABETH FUNK Markushoff Church Records Female Birth: 10 AUG 1817 Jankendorf, Westpreussen, Preussen Church Record of the Mennonite Gemeinde at Makcushof, Prussia. On microfilm at Fresno Pacific University Archives. tiff 75, also LDS records --[my notes] a daughter born Aug 10, 1817 to Paul Funk-no name given. I believe this is "our" Elizabeth Funk. Also Elizabeth Funk [With Franz Wall] would have been 31 years old when daughter Elizabeth Wall was born. She is only one listed. That seems pretty unusual. There must have been others. Maybe Peter Wall and Franz wall married the same sister like the Dirksens did--and the dates are wrong. That would be easy when you see the copied, typed, etc records passed down. Or the wrong children are assigned to them.

By placing this Elisabeth Funk here, Cliff Wall's assertion that her orphan children (including his great-grandfather Peter) were sent to live with uncles in Alexanderthal is supported by their having two uncles Peter and Heinrich Funk (at #12) there. -md

One record says she was born 24 May 1845. The Busau Mennonite Church Records, V. 1, pages 23 and 52, give her parents as Gerhard Wall (b. 8 Feb 1824) #62445 and Elizabeth Giesbrecht (b. 7 Oct 1824) #7224. However, family records from descendents of Elisabeth Wall #133580 indicate that her parents died when she was one year old and that she was adopted by her uncle Gerhard Wall (b. 8 Feb 1824) #62445. Her two brothers were raised by relatives in Alexanderthal (Funk brothers Peter and Heinrich). She transferred from the Busau Church to the Rueckenau Church. Busau Church Book Vol. 1, p. 52 states she was baptized at a location that starts with "Friede".

Elisabeth Funk #485021 and Franz Wall #495088 have then, yet to be ID'd. Here is record of the birth of Elizabeth Funk: ELISABETH FUNK Markushoff Church Records Female Birth: 10 AUG 1817 Jankendorf, Westpreussen, Preussen. Church Record of the Mennonite Gemeinde at Makcushof, Prussia. On microfilm at Fresno Pacific University Archives. tiff 75, also LDS records --[my notes] a daughter born Aug 10, 1817 to Paul Funk-no name given. I believe this is "our" Elizabeth Funk. -ks 		Elizabeth Funk
 
2087 Information on Family Page from Marvin Dirksen

From 1885 Dakota Territory Turner County census:

Jacob Durkson45?FarmerRussiaGermanyGermany wife Elizabeth39RussiaRussiaGermany? d. Anna14RussiaRussiaRussia s. Jacob 9DakotaRussiaRussia s. Cornelius 6DakotaRussiaRussia s. Abraham 3Dakota RussiaRussia s. David 5 mos.DakotaRussiaRussia

Emigrated 1876 or before


from Marvin Dirksen:

Left Holland, went to Switzerland and then to Russia.

She told her daughter that she would die by 8:00 the next morning. Lou is Dirksen believes it was from a strangulated hernia. 		Elizabeth Funk
 
2088 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elizabeth Funk
 
2089 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2090 Also #909794, which should be deleted. -md Ervin Funk
 
2091 The Bartel book says she was born 1879 as does her Zionsbote obituary. Her husband's Christian Leader obituary incorrectly says she died in 1939. Eva Funk
 
2092 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2093 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2094 Died in jail. Heinrich Funk
 
2095 From Kathy Sperling, "Heinrich Funk was married to Maria Heinrichs. They had one daughter and four sons. Then a daughter was added from 1873-74 Molotschna School Registers. She may have died young since she was not listed in family history. One son Abram H Funk was married to an Aganetha Toews and later he married a widow Justina Epp Toews. They immigrated first to Mexico in 1925 to escape Russia and then came to Canada in 27 Feb 1927 to the Horndean, Manitoba area. Other children of Heinrich and Maria Funk were Henry, Peter, Jacob, Tina (Katharina) and also a Maria Funk One child or aunt was able to immigrate to Paraguay in 1830.

"Perhaps Heinrich had died already by 1917 as he is not listed on the map of 1917 Alexanderthal. He was still alive in April 1913 --Vorwaetsr. Both Heinrich and Maria must have been dead by 16 Feb 1923 as they did not get a food draft when Peter and Witwe Goossen did. One son emigrated to Paraguay according to grandson Abram Funk.  		Heinrich Funk
 
2096 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Heinrich Funk
 
2097 Village councillor in 1848, Huebert's Molotschna Atlas p.106. Name spelled Fusch on ship's list. The Funks and their children's families all came to Brotherfield (sec 20) on the Vaderland in 1876. His brother Peter came to Kansas on the Vaderland in 1877.

Death Source: Duerksen Family Sheets genealogy chart and diary Notes: In the 1847 Molotschna Colony Voters List he is listed at Alexanderthal #12.Immigration Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need : a Scrapbook about Mennonite Immigrants from Russia, 1870-1885 Birth Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need : a Scrapbook about Mennonite Immigrants from Russia, 1870-1885 Birth Source: Vote, Betty (b 1944) family group sheet sheet sent 27 April 2001 Birth Source: 1835 Molotschna Colony Census Death Source: Vote, Betty (b 1944) family group sheet sheet sent 2 May 2001 Marriage Source: Duerksen Family Sheets genealogy chart and diary 		Heinrich Funk
 
2098 St. John, New Brunswick Heinrich Jacob Funk
 
2099 Born Feb 10 1894 on his death certificate. He was survived by one sister. Led to the Lord by Henry Goossen his cousin. Heinrich P. Funk
 
2100 St. John, New Brunswick Heinrich P. Funk
 
2101 S. S. Montroyal; Arrived St. John, New Brunswick Helena Funk
 
2102 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Helena Funk
 
2103 She likely died young as she apparently had a younger sister Lena born after 1877 in Goessel, KS. Is it possible these two people are the same and that Lena Funk (#21533) was actually not born in Goessel, but was instead born in S. Russia?
Helena Funk was a minor child of Peter Funk when he died and she was alive in 1886. Only three children of Peter Funk and Maria are listed on the 1880 Federal census--Marion County. Helena died after 1886 and -bef Jun 1893 as she was involved in the minor proceedings of her father Peter Funk's estate. She was most likely Born in South Russia as she is listed as immigrating with her parents as you have listed. 		Helena Funk
 
2104 Cliff Wall reports they had two chldren. -md
 		Henry Funk
 
2105 On the 1920 census living with brother David. Henry Funk
 
2106 St. John, New Brunswick Isaak Abram Funk
 
2107 Is this the brother that emigrated to Paraguay? Jacob Funk
 
2108 One of 3 children in coffins unearthed by Willis Seibold in 1995.
See http://www.brotherfield.com/documents/digging_bones/
Death date from http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi
Sister Lillian Wentland thought he was 7 at death. 		Jacob Funk
 
2109 baptisms --Thiensdorf/Markushof, West Prussia 1791 FUNK Hans son Paul village:Kirschhorst 1789 FUNK Hans daughter Zarke Kirschhorst

Also: LDS-- PAUL FUNCK Sex: M Event(s): Misc: 26 Jun 1734
Mennoniten, Orlofferfelde, Westpreussen, Preussen Parents: Father: HANS FUNCK http://www.familysearch.org Kirchenbuch1772-1899Mennoniten Gemeinde Orlofferfelde (Kr. Marienburg Authors Mennoniten Gemeinde Orlofferfelde (Kr. Marienburg) (Main Author) Notes Mikrofilm aufgenommen von Manuskripten in Weierhof. Parish registers of Orlofferfelde, Westpreu_en, Germany; now OrlowskiePole (Nowy Dwsr Gdansk), Gdansk, Poland. Salt Lake City : Gefilmt durch The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968

Physical 1 Mikrofilmrolle ; 35 mm. Film or fiche number 0555793

0072156 Paul Funk Birth Film/fiche search results Kirchenbuch, 1751-1892 Mennoniten Gemeinde Markushof (Kr. Marienburg) 		Johann Funk
 
2110 S. S. Hungaria; Arrived New York, New York Katharina Funk
 
2111 Death date from http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi

One of 3 children in coffins unearthed by Willis Seibold in 1995.
See http://www.brotherfield.com/documents/digging_bones/ 		Lena Funk
 
2112 Kathy Sperling, "Maria Funk was able to immigrate to Paraguay in 1830". Maria Funk
 
2113 Paraguay Maria Funk
 
2114 2 Children died in Russia, a daughter Meka is in Germany Marichen Funk
 
2115 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2116 Alexanderthal, Molotschna, South Russia Paul Johann Funk
 
2117 He was given a certificate of transfer by the Markushof Church in August 1819 when he left Jankendorf, Prussia with his family for Russia. He settled in Alexanderthal, Molotschna, South Russia in 1819 (P. Rempel, p. 145, 156). In the 1835 Molotschna Census he is listed at Alexanderthal #12.
Info from DakotaDirksens.com (Mike Dirksen) 		Paul Johann Funk
 
2118 Alexanderthal, Molotschna, South Russia Paul Paul Funk
 
2119 In the 1835 census, he is listed at Sparrau #36, and is said to have come to Russia in 1819, and to have moved to Sparrau in 1833 from Alexanderthal, probably at the time of his marriage. The entry for Alexanderthal #12 states that he moved from there to Sparrau in 1833. His o.s. birth date was 23 Apr 1803 per the Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, p. A61a. Paul Paul Funk
 
2120 birth date from 1873-74 Molotschna School Registers: Peter Funk
 
2121 Alexanderthal, Molotschna, South Russia Peter P Funk
 
2122 Peter Funk #528582 is on the ship list with this family but is not yet identified.

Birth Source: Mennonitische Rundschau Birth Source: Records of the Markushof Mennonite Church, 1776 - 1911 Birth Source: 1835 Molotschna Colony Census Death Source: Mennonitische Rundschau Notes: Peter migrated from Prussia to Russia at a young age and was together with his family a member of Gnadenfeld Mennonite Church--in note from Jacob Duerksen (b.1875) to Esther Gaede Lepp (b 1906) dated 1929. Peter reached age of 70 years and 25 days-figured birth day date from that. Need further Sources to show father as Paul Funck. LDS has genealogical index of a Peter Funck born 31 Jan 1815 Markushof, Prussia to a Paul Funck. On 1880 Marion county Fed census for Branch township there is a daughter Mary age 18 and a 2nd Mary listed as step-daughter to Peter and Maria --age 11 Father born in Russia--who could she be?Immigration Source: Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828 Immigration Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need : a Scrapbook about Mennonite Immigrants from Russia, 1870-1885 Marriage Source: Alan Peters' Compiled Family Histories 		Peter P Funk
 
2123 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Peter P Funk
 
2124 1885 census Dakota Territory Turner County lists Sarah (1 month) born April in Dakota. Ellen Funk, second wife of Ervin, said Sarah lived with her family for a year.
1910 Census. Lillian Thiessen wrote, "Sarah Funk is on the census and she is 25 years old and born in 1885 in South Dakota, the daughter of Wife #2 Nettie Voth and David Funk. Wife #3 Mary Fast Funk, Mother: Their first child is David Funk Jr. born in 1888 in SD and then Mary Funk 1889 in SD. The rest of the children were born in North Dakota. I believe the children that died from diphtheria in 1899-1900 were born to Mary Fast Funk because there is a gap of 10 years between Mary Funk born 1889 and Maggie Funk 1898. Lena Funk 1896 and Daniel Funk age 1 year 1900 were listed ND Vital Statistics.
Report by George Barren, page 21 of Stutsman Co. Cemetery Book: Jacob Funk age 7, may also be David Funk’s child. 1900-7 years=1893 and fits in that gap of years. He was not listed on the ND Vital Statistics.
 		Sara Funk
 
2125 Cliff Wall reports that Sarah was a cripple who lived with John and Nettie Rau. -md Sara Funk
 
2126 Birth Source: Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need , page 295Birth Source: Vote, Betty; e-mail on 27 Apr 2001 Birth Source: Dirksen, Marvin, submitter: World Family Tree Vol 26 #320 Death Source: Vote, Betty; e-mail on 27 Apr 2001 Death Source: Dirksen, Marvin, submitter: World Family Tree Vol 26 #320. Sarah's son Abraham Adam Dirksen wrote in 1958, "One time when we were in Shafter, John Unruh (#409012), told me that his father Daniel Unruh (#346859), and my mother, Sarah Funk Dirksen, were cousins." Actually, it was Sarah's uncle Heinrich Funk #60203 who married Daniel Unruh's sister Anna #60239. So it was her cousins David Funk , Elisabeth Funk Wall and Elisabeth Funk Dirksen who were first cousins of Daniel D. Unruh. Notes (dated about 1929) from Esther Gaede Lepp (b 1906) has Sarah Funk as mother to Sarah Duerksen Richert. She was on 1900 Stutsman Co Fed census ND with Jacob Dirksen, husband. Mother of 10 children, 6 living in 1900 from census. Her age is incorrectly given as 40 on the Vaderland passenger list in 1876. Lorhrenz - The Mennonite Church says a group left the MB Church about1880 and 76 more left in 1886 (because of internal difficulties) and joined the Adventists. Guenther says Maria Guenther left for SDA in1886. Documents written by Heinrich Adrian and Elder Loewen of the Brothersfield MB church, and by L. R. Conradi, the Adventist Evangelist who proselytized the Brothersfield congregation are posted at http://www.dakotadirksens.com.
Birth date from Marvin Dirksen

Death Date from Jamestown Daily Alert May 18, 1917

WOODWORTH

Rustler: Mrs. Sarah Dirksen died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hiebe rt in this city Tuesday morning, death being caused by chronic myocarditi s. She lived in the New Home neighborhood and came down last Sunday f or a visit at the Hiebert home. Funeral services were held at the Adventi st church near New Home Wednesday afternoon and interment made in the N ew Home cemetery. Deceased is survived by several sons and daughters, a nd was the widow of the late Jacob Dirksen who passed away a few months ag o. 		Sarah Funk
 
2127 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sarah Funk
 
2128 The Baltzer Genealogy says she was born 23 Dec 1878, and died 8 July1950.The Krause Genealogy gives the same dates. WARKENTIN SUSIE b.12/12/1877 Mother- BALTZER father- FUNK F born KANSAS died FRESNO CO> d. 07/06/1950 72 yrs In 1920 the Peter J. Warkentin family moved to Dinuba, California. Here they joined the Zion K.M.B. Church. On January 17, 1937, Peter J. suffered a stroke and passed away January 29, 1937, Mrs. Jacob (Krause) Warkentin passed away in July of 1950. They were wonderful parents and showed their children how to serve the Lord. Susanna Funk
 
2129 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2130 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2131 Married in Friedensruh, Mol which was evidently where her father had moved to or perhaps Wilhelmina and her first husband has been living in Friedensruh when he died. Anyway later her father and stepmother are shown living in Friedensruh as the birth place of one of their children. She had one brother living still in Russia when she died according to obituary. She had a total of 13 children, 9 died in infancy. Her Zionsbote obituary does not mention a first marriage.

Married in Friedensruh, Mol which was evidently where her father had moved to or perhaps Wilhelmina and her first husband has been living in Friedensruh when he died. Anyway later her father and stepmother are shown living in Friedensruh as the birth place of one of their children. She had one brother living still in Russia when she died according to obituary. She had a total of 13 children, 9 died in infancy. Her Zionsbote obituary does not mention a first marriage. 		Wilhelmina "Minnie" Funk
 
2132 S. S. Pisa; Arrived New York, New York Wilhelmina "Minnie" Funk
 
2133 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2134 The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Liebenau #5, the home of his father. I cannot locate his birth record in the Tragheimerweide records. David Heinrich Gaeddert
 
2135 His new style birth date was 1 Oct 1851. The old style date of his first marriage was 5 June 1875. The Reedley records say that the date of his second marriage was 8 Nov 1896, and that he died on 22 Jan 1921. The David Karber submission says his second marriage occurred on 6 Jan 1897. Abraham B. Gaede
 
2136 S. S. Oder; Arrived New York, New York Abraham B. Gaede
 
2137 S. S. Leipzig; Arrived New York, New York Abraham G. Gaede
 
2138 One source says she died in 3 Nov 1897, which is likely incorrect since she isn't listed on the Leipzig passenger list with the rest of her family. Agatha Gaede
 
2139 One record says her surname was Franz. Agneta Gaede
 
2140 He was a medical doctor. Alvin Walter Gaede
 
2141 The Gaede book calls her Anna Marie and gives her death date as 12 May. Anna Ruth Gaede
 
2142 Bertha and Wilbert were both killed in an auto collision leaving five children to be raised by grandparents.
 		Bertha Gaede
 
2143 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2144 died at 11 months David A. Gaede
 
2145 Parents were in Russia on Missionary work. David C. Gaede
 
2146 S. S. Leipzig; arrived New York, New York David Gerhard Gaede
 
2147 S. S. Oder; arrived New York, New York David P. Gaede
 
2148 The Duerksen book says she was born in 1904. Edna M. Gaede
 
2149 The Christian Leader says he was married on 18 Apr. He and his wife were medical missionaries in Alaska for many years. Elmer E. Gaede
 
2150 The Reedley records say that she was born 19 Feb.
Obit - Hillsboro Star-Journal - 8-8-2001: Esther Rosalie Gaede Lepp, 94, died July 3, 2001, in Fresno, Calif. Born Feb. 18, 1906, in the Ebenfeld community, she was the daughter of Abraham and Anna (Duerksen) Gaede. She grew up on a farm near Hillsboro. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior at the age of 11 and was baptized and became a member of the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church in rural Hillsboro. She graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1924. She taught elementary school for five years in Ingalls and Florence. After attending Tabor College and graduating from the University of Kansas, she taught high school physics and chemistry for two years in Ionia, Ks. In 1931, she married Henry Lepp in the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. They lived in Amarillo, Texas, from 1931-1941 and moved to Bakersfield, Calif., in 1941. In 1969, they moved to Fresno, Calif. She was a homemaker and mother and enjoyed teaching Sunday School, working as a Scout leader, coaching music lessons, and attending Bible study fellowship. Survivors include daughters, Naomi Ruth (Edwin) Wiens of Fresno, Calif., Esther Elaine (David) Karber of Long Beach, Calif., and Lois Sharon (Curtis) Funk of Wheaton, Ill.; grandsons, Jonathan Wiens, Joel Wiens, Loren Wiens, Tim Karber, Jeremy Funk and Nathaniel Funk; granddaughters, Carolyn Warkentine, Gail Neufeld and Julianne Funk Deckard; and 11 grand- children.

Obit - Christian Leader - Sept. 2001: LEPP, ESTHER GAEDE, Fresno, CA, a member of Bethany MB Church of Fresno, was born Feb. 18, 1906, to Abraham and Anna Duerksen Gaede in the Ebenfeld community near Hillsboro, KS and died July 3, 2001, at the age of 95. On Aug. 22, 1931, she was married to Henry H. Lepp, who predeceased her. She is survived by three duaghters, Naomi and husband Ed Wiens of Fresno, Elaine and husband David Karber of Long Beach, CA, and Lois and husband Curtis Funk of Wheaton, IL, nine grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. 		Esther Rosalie Gaede
 
2151 obit-He was a farmer and owned and operated Jerry's Paintin' Place. Gerald Lane "Jerry" Gaede
 
2152 Immigrated first to Hillsboro, Kansas, then moved to Moundridge, Kansas and later to Weatherford, Oklahoma. His n.s. birth date was 22 May 1846. The Kuban Census of 1869 says that he was listed at Liebenau #14 in the 1858 Census.

Immigrated first to Hillsboro, Kansas, then moved to Moundridge, Kansas and later to Weatherford, Oklahoma. His n.s. birth date was 22 May 1846. The Kuban Census of 1869 says that he was listed at Liebenau #14 in the 1858 Census. 		Gerhard Gaede
 
2153 S. S. Leipzig; Arrived New York, New York Gerhard Gaede
 
2154 S. S. Leipzig; arrived New York, New York Gerhard Gaede
 
2155 There were no children of this marriage. Harold Gaede
 
2156 A pdf download of Edwin Gaede's Heinrich Gaede Genealogy.

He was residing in Liebenau in 1862 per the Molotschna school registers.12 Children born-3 died in infancy according to Jacob Gaede Family History-- also came to Liebenau at age 7 and lived there 36 years after marriage until moving to Taurian region in Kuban in 1872. 		Heinrich Gaede
 
2157 S. S. Leipzig; Arrived New York, New York Heinrich Gaede
 
2158 S. S. Leipzig; arrived New York, New York Heinrich G. Gaede
 
2159 She was engaged to be married at the time of her death. Helena Gaede
 
2160 She married Charles Stoessel. Hulda Gaede
 
2161 S. S. Oder; arrived New York, New York Jacob P. Gaede
 
2162 Newton Kansan - 3-10-2002: EMPORIA -- Lacey JoAnn Mott of Admire and Jason Robert Gaede of Emporia were married during a 2 p.m. Jan. 5, 2002, ceremony at First United Methodist Church in Emporia. The Rev. Norton C. Ritter officiated. The bride is the daughter of Phillip and Jami Mott of Admire. The groom is the son of Fred and Sharon Gaede of Emporia. Special guests included grandparents of the groom Robert and Elvera Gaede of Newton. Maid of honor was Jo Jo Percy. Best man was Matt Howell. Bride's attendants were Jessica Diller and Amanda Whitaker. Groomsmen were James Bechtel and step-brother of the groom Jason Butler. Flower girl was Kelci Arreola. Ring bearer was brother of the bride Tharon Mott. Candle lighters were Heather Kuhn and step-sister of the groom Jamie Butler. Ushers were Steve Dawson, Clif Proehl, Jesse Rider and brother of the bride Trevor Mott. Organist was Paul Moore. Guest book attendant was Sheila Wells. Special attendant was Robyn Heinz, sister of the groom. Wedding party attendant was Marla Hedberg. A reception was in the Best Western Rawhide Room in Emporia. A rehearsal dinner was at the Best Western Hospitality House in Emporia. The bride is a 2000 graduate of Northern Heights High School and is employed by Wal-Mart in Emporia. The groom is a 2000 graduate of Emporia High School and is a sophomore at Emporia State University majoring in marketing. He is employed by Wal-Mart in Emporia and is a sports writer for the ESU Bulletin. Jason Robert Gaede
 
2163 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2164 One record says he was born 14 Jan 1885. Johann H. Gaede
 
2165 He was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Krause (#14534) after his mother's death. John E. Gaede
 
2166 They also took in a foster daughter Ruth Heidebrecht #76199 who was a daughter to Katie's cousin--Mary Krause Heidebrecht #38344 Katie E. Gaede
 
2167 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2168 The Reedley records say that she was born 3 Nov. Malinda Ann Gaede
 
2169 S. S. Leipzig; arrived New York, New York Maria Gaede
 
2170 He was a physician. Menno Simon Gaede
 
2171 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2172 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2173 creative - bought the local Allis-Chalmers tractor & implement dealership and then added a Packard car dealership to the business. When they sold the dealerships, they operated the only bowling alley in Iola, and Noah became an independent oil operator. Noah H. Gaede
 
2174 He was 21 at the time of the 1864 Kuban listing, which states he resided in Liebenau, and was listed at Liebenau #14 in the 1858 census. Peter Gaede
 
2175 S. S. Oder; arrived New York, New York Peter Gaede
 
2176 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2177 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2178 S. S. Leipzig; arrived New York, New York Sara Gaede
 
2179 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2180 The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Liebenau #5. The passport record states he came to Russia from Klein Lubin, Prussia. Heinrich Heinrich Geddert
 
2181 David & Anna had 7 children, 2 sons & 2 daughters died. Surviving are 1 son & 2 daughters. Anna Gerbrandt
 
2182 The Reedley records call her "Esther Lois." The Dinuba records call her "Esther Marie" and say that she was born 15 Feb. The Gaede book says she died 6 Aug. She used the given name Lois. Esther Lois Gerbrandt
 
2183 Ordained minister - church planter for MB churches near Reedley, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sacramento and Capitola CA, in Denver and Burlington, CO, in Lincoln, NE and OKC, OK. Worked for Tabor College at one time. Ediger book says he was born in Winkler, Manitoba. Another source has birth year as 1905 (Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church Register [1893-1926]; Christian Leader, 1 Nov 1983, p23).
The Wiens book says he was born 1904 and married on 13 May. 		John J. Gerbrandt
 
2184 Funeral Bulletin - In Memory of Otto Gerdes Funeral services - 10:30 a.m. - Saturday, June 11, 1988 - Mennonite Brethren Church - Mt. Lake, MN Clergyman - Pastor Roger Engbrecht Tributes - Arlene Derksen, Arthur Gerdes Ministry in Music - Jim Lewis, Stan Rempel, Henry L. Dick, Harry Rempel, "Face to Face", "Safe in the Arms in Jesus" Soloist - "My Tribute" - Marvin Gerdes Organist - Mrs. Wava Wiens Casket bearers - Steven Gerdes, Michael Gerdes, Laurel Gerdes, Scott Gerdes, Jon Gerdes, Paul Gerdes, James Gerdes Honorary Casket Bearers - Leander Bargen, Abe N. Dick, John C. Wiens, Leonard Suderman, Henry L. Dick, David A. Tieszen Interment - Mountain Lake Cemetery, Mt. Lake, MN Arrangements by: Eifert Funeral Home, Mt. Lake, MN

Otto Gerdes - 1897-1988
Otto Gerdes, son of Gerd and Lumka (Ostercamp) Gerdes, was born in Aplington, Iowa, on February 27, 1897. He received his education in country schools in Iowa and Minnesota. At age 11, Otto moved with his parents to the Mountain Lake, MN, area.
Otto was baptized upon confession of his faith on July 22, 1917, at the Carson Mennonite Brethren Church in Delft, MN. He later transferred his membership to the Mennonite Brethren Church in Mountain Lake. This is where Otto served as church treasurer and also on the Board of Trustees.
On October 15, 1925, at Frazer, Montana, Otto was united in marriage to Nettie Beier. They were married a total of 62 years. After their marriage, they farmed near Mountain Lake until 1968, at which time they moved to town. Even after moving to town, Otto continued to help Marvin on the farm.
Over the years, Otto served on the Mountain Lake Co-Op Creamery Board, and on the District 80 West School Board.
On Tuesday afternoon, June 7, 1988, Otto passed away at the Mountain Lake Community Hospital. He attained the age of 91 years, three months, and eleven days.
Survivors include his wife, Nettie; one daughter and her husband, Arlene and Clarence Derksen of Butterfield, MN; two sons and their wives, Arthur and Peggy Gerdes of Seattle, WA, Marvin and Yvonne Gerdes of Mountain Lake, MN; seven grandchildren, Steven, Michael, Laurel, Scott, Jon, Paul and James Gerdes; one sister-in-law, Marie Gerdes of Delft, MN. Otto was preceded in death by his parents, one son, Raymond in 1958, one brother and one sister.
Blessed be his memory. 		Otto Gerdes
 
2185 His first name is incorrectly given as Frans in Brothers in Deed, but review of the NY arrival list microfilm for the City of Chester reveals that it was probably actually given as Froni. Freni Gering
 
2186 Married in double wedding. Freni Gering
 
2187 S. S. City of Chester; arrived New York, New York Freni Gering
 
2188 Tragheimerweide records, page 252: died age 4. Anna Gertzen
 
2189 The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Lichtfelde #6, the home of his father. Heinrich Abraham Gertzen
 
2190 S. S. Moravian; arrived Quebec, Quebec Agatha Giesbrecht
 
2191 S1A152 says she was born June 31. SUV120 says she was born Feb. 12. Agatha Giesbrecht
 
2192 Had 4 daughters and 6 sons, 1 son died in infancy. Anna W. Giesbrecht
 
2193 Born or resided in Kronsthal (Chortitza), Russia (Ratzlaff, 1995a, p. 1). In an Ancestor Chart prepared in an unknown year by Alberta Ratzlaff, Aron's father is said to be Herman Giesbrecht who died about 1847 in Russia. They are listed in the Dalmeny (Ebenezer) MB church book available in the Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg. One record says he died at Alexanderheim, Pavlograd, South Russia. Aron Giesbrecht
 
2194 The Giesbrechts' had 11 children. They moved to British Columbia in 1934. Daniel Giesbrecht
 
2195 Had step-son Jacob Johann Peter Friesen listed in the Nikolaifeld transfer data for Yazykovo Colony. Gerhard Giesbrecht
 
2196 Joined Bergthal Church in 1934. Helena Giesbrecht
 
2197 Canada Jacob A. Giesbrecht
 
2198 He is buried in Shafter Memorial Park Cemetery. He had a total of 14 children with Elisabeth Krause.
Aberdeen says he was son of Gerhard Giesbrecht and Margaretha Wiebe, born 25 May 1856. 		Johann Gerhard Giesbrecht
 
2199 Mountain Lake 1878 p. 70: baptized by Heinrich Regier. Maria Giesbrecht
 
2200 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2201 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2202 Lonetree p. 262 gives her first name as Elma and her birth date as 3 May 1902, which is probably wrong. Lonetree p. 394: baptized by H. J. Mininger. Lonetree p. 458 gives her first name as "Elina". Elma Giesel
 
2203 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2204 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2205 His first wife was Anna Miller. She was a sister of his second wife. Jacob J. Glanzer
 
2206 Mennonite Weekly Review - 1-11-2001: Jennie Francis Glanzer was born Feb. 1, 1921, at Carpenter, S.D., to Math P. and Kate (Gross) Glanzer. She graduated from Willow Lake High School in 1939, attended Gen- eral Beadle College and taught country school in Beadle County for three years. On Dec. 26, 1942, she married Arnold Schmidt at Marion, S.D. They farmed at Marion, Dolton, and for almost 50 years near Parker. She was a member and for many years a Sunday school teacher at Bethesda Mennonite Church, Marion. Jennie enjoyed cooking and baking and especially loved to share her raisin-filled cookies and mulberry jam with guests and visi- tors. She was famous for sending birthday cards with $2 bills to her grandnieces and grandnephews. After a courageous 14-month battle with cancer, she died Dec. 8, 2000, at her home near Parker, at the age of 79. Survivors include her husband, Arnie; two sons, Daryl and his wife Judy Dodd of Fort Worth, Texas, and Delwin and his wife Jane of Parker; a daughter, Jeanine and her husband Marvin Spomer of Worthington, Minn.; four grand- children, four great-grandchildren; a brother, Wilson; and three sis- ters, Alma Glanzer, Rozella Glanzer and Wanda Polly. She was preceded in death by a brother, Elard. Jennie Frances Glanzer
 
2207 She is listed in the Gnadenau records as the foster child of the Johann M. Fasts. The Gnadenau church records say she was born 15 Sept. All family records, however, indicate she was born 5 Sept. She is buried at Ebenfeld M. B. Cemetery. Clara Hermina Ernestine Glied
 
2208 She had a total of 19 children, 10 predeceased her. She was a midwife in hospital in Mountain Lake. One record says she died 22 Apr 1923. Alvina Gloeckler
 
2209 He immigrated on the same ship as Carl Gloeckler #26650 and was likely related to him in some way, probably as his son. He went from Mountain Lake, Minnesta to Rosthern in 1900. Johann Gloeckler
 
2210 S. S. Holsatia; arrived New York, New York Johann Gloeckler
 
2211 S. S. Holsatia; arrived New York, New York Karl Gloeckler
 
2212 there are four more children. See GM #26650. -md Karl Gloeckler
 
2213 S. S. Hammonia; arrived New York, New York Laura Gloeckler
 
2214 One record says she was born 3 Mar. Susanna Gloeckler
 
2215 Harvey, North Dakota Magdelena Goehring
 
2216 She had a total of 12 children. One died in childhood. Magdelena Goehring
 
2217 Rosemary Slater says she was born 4 Aug 1908 and that she married 13 Jun 1926. The dates shown come from her obituary. Inez Elizabeth Goentzel
 
2218 The Patricia Smith submission says he died in 1956. Jacob M. Goering
 
2219 He resided in Rehhof, Stuhm, Prussia at the time of his baptism. Abraham Goertz
 
2220 Tragheimerweide records, page 252: died age 48Y8M12D. See his first wife's note!
Page 135: surname is Goerz. Pages 42 and 186; Gertz. Page 46; Goertzen. 		Abraham Goertz
 
2221 One record says she was born in 1716. Anna Goertz
 
2222 One record says she was born in 1914. Clara J. Goertz
 
2223 One record says he was born 26 Apr 1900.
Born in Kansas. Grew up on farms in Saskatchewan and Kansas. His father had large farm and ranch in western Nebraska and served as a minister. Was board member of Paxton Mennonite Brethren Church and treasurer of the Berean Bible Church in Ogallala,NE. He also served for several years as commissioner in Keith County, NE. 		Cornelius P. Goertz
 
2224 His o.s. birth date was 24 Jun 1863. His age is given as 8 on the ship passenger list in 1874, which is incorrect, and his first name is given as "Friedr". The Hamburg departure lists give his first name as "Died", however. One record says he died 19 Aug 1940. Dietrich Goertz
 
2225 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Dietrich Goertz
 
2226 Her first name on her daughter's death certificate looks something like "Licei." Elisabeth Goertz
 
2227 She resided in Rehhof, Stuhm, Prussia at the time of her baptism. Elisabeth Goertz
 
2228 1st Menn Newton memb. rec. p. 65: joined 1st Menn 6 Feb 1938.
Lehigh 1900 p. 187: "Austritt u. Ursache: Durch Attest". 		Eva Goertz
 
2229 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2230 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Heinrich Goertz
 
2231 Her age is given as 7 on the ship passenger list in 1874, which is incorrect. Helena Goertz
 
2232 His age is given as 3 on the Stuttgart passenger list in 1893, which is apparently incorrect. One record says she was born 9 Apr. Her old style birth date was 28 Mar 1888. Both the Zionsbote and Christian Leader obituaries say she was born 9 Apr 1888 in South Russia. According to the Christian Leader obituary, she had three sons (one of whom predeceased her) and two daughters. Helena Goertz
 
2233 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Helena Goertz
 
2234 S. S. Stuttgart; arrived New York, New York Helena Goertz
 
2235 He lived with his family in Canada (1983). Jakob Goertz
 
2236 His o.s. birth date was 31 May 1858. (one year off) Johann Goertz
 
2237 One record says he married Katharina Neufeld on 16 Jan 1881. That is clearly impossible, as she died before that. Could there be an error in the year? Johann Goertz
 
2238 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Johann Goertz
 
2239 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Johann Goertz
 
2240 One record says he was born at Childstown, South Dakota. John D. Goertz
 
2241 One record says she was born 31 Dec 1879. Julia Goertz
 
2242 Her o.s. birth date was 7 Nov 1860. Her age is given as 9 on the ship passenger list in 1874, which is incorrect.She had a total of 15 children, 7 died in childhood. Katherina Goertz
 
2243 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Katherina Goertz
 
2244 She resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of her baptism. Maria Goertz
 
2245 Tabor memb book p. 81 gives a birth date of 17 Mar 1889.
Lehigh 1900 p. 40 gives birth date of 17 Mar 1889. p. 277 gives her place of baptism as "First Mennonite, Caddo Co., Okla." by Michael Klaassen. Transferred to Lehigh 23 Nov 1912 from Tabor. p. 187: "Aufnahme: d. Attest, Nov. 23, 1912". 		Maria Goertz
 
2246 His o.s. birth date was 6 Apr. Peter Goertz
 
2247 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Peter Goertz
 
2248 One record says he was bonr 17 Jun 1886. Peter was a Minister. The Goertz' to Crowfoot, AB for 12 years., to Lindbrook, AB. They had 6 sons & 6 daughters. 1 son & 1 daughter died in infancy. Peter P. Goertz
 
2249 He resided in Boenhoff, Prussia at the time of his baptism. The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Lichtfelde #6. Abraham Abraham Goertzen
 
2250 One record says she was born 1 Jun 1887. Agnes "Nettie" Goertzen
 
2251 Emmaus No. 2 p. 228 gives a birth date of 24 Jul 1919. "Received: January 16, 1977". Alvina Goertzen
 
2252 Another child was born to him who died in infancy. David H. Goertzen
 
2253 they had two children. David L. Goertzen
 
2254 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2255 They had three children. Emil Goertzen
 
2256 Married in Elm Creek Mennonite Brethren church. George Goertzen
 
2257 Mountain Lake 1878 p. 8: "Joined MB Church". Heinrich Goertzen
 
2258 S. S. Kenilworth; Arrived New York, New York Heinrich Goertzen
 
2259 They had three children, see his birth reference. Henry Goertzen
 
2260 Mountain Lake 1878 p. 8: baptized by Gerhard Neufeld. His n.s. birth date was 8 Oct 1870. Isaac Goertzen
 
2261 S. S. Strassburg; Arrived New York, New York Isaac Goertzen
 
2262 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2263 1984 Phoenix, AZ. Jenny Goertzen
 
2264 Bethesda-Henderson Book II p. 430: baptized by Abraham W. Friesen. Milton A. Goertzen
 
2265 "Durch nochmalige Taufe zur Mennoniten Bruedergem. uebergetreten. beide 1893" p. p382 spells his name Goertz. So does p. p482. p. p482: baptized by Jakob Buller. p. p564: married by Heinrich Goertz. Peter H. Goertzen
 
2266 S. S. Cimbria; Arrived New York, New York Peter H. Goertzen
 
2267 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2268 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2269 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2270 Kronsthal, Chortitza, South Russia Elisabeth Goerz
 
2271 One record says her given name was Sarah.
She resided in Zieglershuben, Prussia at the time of her baptism. 		Elisabeth Goerz
 
2272 Ebenfeld, Marion County, Kansas Franz A. Goerz
 
2273 He was from Friedenstein in the Crimea at the time of his immigration in 1873 per the diary of Tobias B. Unruh (#103897). He immigrated on the same ship as
Mountain Lake p. 10: "ist 1883 nach Kansas gezogen". He was (re)baptized 7 Jun 1896 at Hillsboro, Kansas. He had 7 children, a daughter, Elisabeth, died in childhood. 		Franz A. Goerz
 
2274 Tragheimerweide records, pages 118,126,318 and 340: surname is Goertz. Jacob Goerz
 
2275 He resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of his baptism. Jakob Goerz
 
2276 Tragheimerweide records, page 238: died age 63.
Pages 12, 176 and 179: surname is Goertz. Page 182: Goertzen. Pages 63, 64, 66, 67 and 206: Gertz. 		Johan Goerz
 
2277 First Hillsboro 1885 p. 252: "Ausgetreten nach Newton." p. 324: baptized by J. S. Hirschler. Maria Goerz
 
2278 S. S. Holsatia; arrived New York, New York Maria Goerz
 
2279 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2280 She resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of her baptism. Sara Goerz
 
2281 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2282 His o.s. birth date was 20 Mar 1875. In 1898 he took out a homestead in Waldheim, Saskatchewan. Dietrich D. Goerzen
 
2283 S. S. Strassburg; Arrived New York, New York Dietrich D. Goerzen
 
2284 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2285 First Hillsboro 1914 p. 257: baptized by P. H. Richert. p. 227 gives a baptism date of May 1917 (no specific day). "Aufnahme: d. Att. v. Tabor Apr. 1918". Says she was born 17 Feb 1898. Martha Goerzen
 
2286 One record says he was born 11 Aug. His age is given as 9 on the ship passenger list in 1874, which is incorrect.
At the time of his marriage to Agnes Loewen, he was a widower with 3 children. 		Peter Goerzen
 
2287 S. S. Cimbria; Arrived New York, New York Peter Goerzen
 
2288 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2289 Tragheimerweide records, page 243: died age 53.
Page 181: surname is Goetze. 		David Goetz
 
2290 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2291 Christian Leader - January 2003:
GOLBEK, JACOB J., Reedley, CA, a member of Reedley MB Church, was born Aug. 5, 1912, to Peter and Anna Golbek at Alva, OK and died Oct. 29, 2002, at the age of 90. On Sept. 17, 1937, he was married to Esther Elrich, who predeceased him. He is survived by one son, Ron and wife Tina of Kingsburg, CA; one daughter, Joanne of Squaw Valley, CA, five grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren. 		Jacob Joel Golbek
 
2292 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2293 S. S. Braunschweig; Arrived Baltimore, Maryland Peter Golbek
 
2294 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2295 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2296 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2297 daughter of Francis Marion & Hattie Louise Mead Gookins Charlotte Louise Gookins
 
2298 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2299 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2300 Winnipegosis, Manitoba Justina (Thiessen) Goosen
 
2301 One record says she married 5 Mar 1905. Margaretha Goosen
 
2302 2nd marriage Peter Franz Goosen
 
2303 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2304 Source name waldheim book pg 203. and pg 209,210 Abraham D. Goossen
 
2305 Abram was killed in a car-train accident only 11 months after moving to Ontario. Source name and marriage Waldheim Book pg 207. One record says she died 29 Aug 1949. Abram H. Goossen
 
2306 p. p373: "Aufnahme: mit Attest 1891 v. J. S. Hirschlers Gem. Hillsboro; 1909 13 Dezember mit Bedauern aus unseren Gemeindeverband entlassen" p. p473: baptized by J. S. Hirschler of Hillsboro. First Hillsboro 1885 p. 251 gives a baptism date of 15 Sep 1889. "Attestiert". p. 324: baptized by J. S. Hirschler and accepted into the Alexanderwohl Church in 1891. One family record says she was born in 1864. Aganetha Goossen
 
2307 Saskatchewan Agnetha "Agnes" Goossen
 
2308 She and her husband were missionaries in China from 1916 to 1922. Agnetha "Agnes" Goossen
 
2309 Source Gossen lists place of birth as Marion, South Dakota. Anna H. Goossen
 
2310 He was a minister. His name is given as "Friedr" on the ship arrival list in 1874, but as "Died" on the Hamburg departure lists. His o.s. birth date was 19 Jan. Diedrich D. Goossen
 
2311 S. S. Silesia; arrived New York, New York Diedrich D. Goossen
 
2312 Source name and marriage Waldheim Book pg 207 Eva Goossen
 
2313 One family record calls him "Jacob." Could this be his father's name? Occupation: Worked for a Blacksmith and for the railroad in South Dakota. worked as sheriff at Yankton So Dakota. Buried at Brotherfield Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery west of Waldheim. Franz J. Goossen
 
2314 p. p507: baptized by Jacob Buller. p. p576: married by C. C. Wedel. He isn't listed on the Vaderland ship passenger list, but must have immigrated then as his parents are listed on the passenger list. One family record says he was born 17 Dec.
also farmer and inventor church affiliation - Alexanderwohl. They raised a foster child, Anna Hiebert (1911-1958). 		Franz M. Goossen
 
2315 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2316 Hannah suffered with severe arthritis most of her married life. Birth page 207 Waldheim Book. BirthPlace: pg 207 Waldheim Book Hannah Goossen
 
2317 One family record says he was born 29 Nov. He moved to Schwesterthal, Crimea in 1862. He was a minister at the Salem M.B. Church near Waldheim, Saschawean. He and his wife were baptized and joined the K.M.B. Church on 19 June 1884. Heinrich A. Goossen
 
2318 S. S. Silesia; Arrived New York, New York Heinrich A. Goossen
 
2319 Another source has birth date as 15 Jul 1880 at Alexanderthal, Molotschna and marriage date as 24 May 1905. He was a minister. Lived at Atexanderthal, Mol before migrating to Canada and then lived first in Winnipeg, Manitoba--(Can. Men. Board of Colonization notes) But apparently went first to Mexico and then to Canada according to scan of early church records. One record says he died at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Heinrich H. Goossen
 
2320 Mexico Heinrich H. Goossen
 
2321 One record gives his birth date as 2 Feb 1916. Another source has birth date as 2 Jan 1916. Heinrich H. Goossen
 
2322 Winnipeg, Manitoba Heinrich H. Goossen
 
2323 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2324 New style birthdate is 8 June. Jacob C. Goossen
 
2325 One family record says he was born in 1824. There is some question about his birth date, and clarification is needed to verify that this is the correct Jakob Goossen. One record says he was born in Friedensdorf, Molotschna, South Russia. Jakob Goossen
 
2326 S. S. Nederland; arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jakob Goossen
 
2327 In 1926 the family immigrated to Canada, settling near Manitou, Man. He attended Winkler (Man.) Bible School . Jakob H. Goossen
 
2328 Birth date may also be listed as 21 Oct 1876 (Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church Register [1893-1926])
Agnes Unger was a Niece and a foster daughter #401805.

Gerhard and Tiene Goossen came to Canada on October 28, 1925. This is from the Derksen family Bible and I think that is when they arrived at the Plum Coulee train station in Manitoba. 		Katharina Goossen
 
2329 S. S. Quebec; Arrived Quebec, Quebec Katharina Goossen
 
2330 This marriage had six children. Katharina Goossen
 
2331 One record says she died 29 Dec 1978. Maria Goossen
 
2332 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2333 Source Hand written notes of Elizabeth Plett Gossen Verbal Interview with her Children Henry and Gordon at the Gossen Reunion Aug. 1990. Residence She lived in Abbotsford British Columbia Sarah Goossen
 
2334 Stayed in Russia 3 sons, 2 daughters Susie and 2 daughters were sent to Siberia and died there of starvation. Susie Goossen
 
2335 Susie and Bernhard were married at Salem Mennonite Bretheren Church, north west of Waldheim. Died at Outlook & District Pioneer Home. Funeral Services at Salem Mennonite Church, Waldheim. Interment at Salem Cemetery. Susie Jane Goossen
 
2336 Hutch News - 11-4-1999:
Jake and Tabea Born will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 6) at Presbyterian Manor, 1200 E. Seventh. Tabea Goossen and Jake Born were married Sept. 26, 1929, at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Lustre, Mont. Their children are Myrtice and Roy Schultz of Hinsdale, Mont.; Floyd and Bertha Born of Elbing; Norma and LeRoy Goentzel of Denver; and Bill and Helena Born of Wasco, Calif. They have 14 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Newton Kansan - 11-4-1999: Jake and Tabea Born will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.
Tabea Goossen and Jake Born were married Sept. 26, 1929, at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Lustre, Mont.

Their children are Myrtice and Roy Schultz of Hinsdale, Mont.; Floyd and Bertha Born of Elbing; Norma and LeRoy Goentzel of Denver; and Bill and Helena Born of Wasco, Calif.

They have 14 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Hutch News - 7-22-2005: NEWTON - Tabea Born, 96, died July 21, 2005, at Newton. She was born Aug. 20, 1908, at Marion, S.D., the daughter of Diedrich and Elizabeth Unruh Goossen. A resident of Newton, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church. On Sept. 26, 1929, she married Jacob Born at Lustre, Mont. He died in 2001. Survivors include: two sons, Floyd, Newton, and William, Bakersfield, Calif.; a daughter, Norma Goentzel, Denver; two brothers, Edwin Goossen, Billings, Mont., and Elmer Goossen, Minneapolis, Minn.; a sister, Irene Saari, Duluth, Minn.; 13 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Myrtice Schultz.

Newton Kansan -PUBLISHED: Friday, July 22, 2005: Tabea Born, 96, homemaker, died Thursday (July 21, 2005) in Newton. Local survivors include a son, Floyd Born and wife Bertha of Newton. 		Tabea Goossen
 
2337 Sons missionaries in South America Maria Martha Gosen
 
2338 A narrative describing the Frank Guenthers is in the ND centennial book "Tale of Three Cities". Source name in will of Franz Gossen in possession of John B. Gossen Family Register: Type written page in papers of Elizabeth Plett Gossen Remained in South Dakota. Her parent's family is described in the Waldheim book on pg. 210. Aganetha "Nettie" Gossen
 
2339 S. S. Nederland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Aganetha J. Gossen
 
2340 An Anna Gossen is referenced in Waldheim book pg. 203 born same year, but to different parents. Anna Gossen
 
2341 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2342 One record says he was born in 1919. Burt Oscar Gossen
 
2343 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2344 Buried at Frazer Cemetery, Vancouver Source Waldheim book pg 175 Elsie Gossen, Who married Alex Murray in 1948 had two children and two grandchildren Kathy and Doug, and Lived in Vancouver, B.C. she died of Cancer in1975. Elsie Lorraine Gossen
 
2345 He and Louise had 3 children. Ernie Gossen
 
2346 Buried at Brotherfield Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery west of Waldheim. Frank Gossen
 
2347 His n.s. birthdate was 4 Feb. The immigration record says his given name was Gertrude. Gerhard J. Gossen
 
2348 One record says he was born 18 Apr 1929. Harvey Clifford Gossen
 
2349 Burial Source: Adolf Reimer, ein treuer Bote Jesu Christi unter Deutschen und Russen. Notes: His n.s. birth date was 14 Sep 1843.He was a blacksmith. I think he and his wife emigrated to Canada around 1924 and lived in Manitoba but have not found records. --According conversations with Esther Gaede Lepp and Elfreda Penner Fast.1 son and 2 daughters young died at the time of many sicknesses. Then were blessed with 5 more daughters and 1 son. from H H Goossen diary. Alexandertal School census 1883-84 Goossen (Heinrich) Anna10,Katharina 8. --b Abt 1874 and 1876 April 1913 Vorwaerts has Heinrich Goossen as very weak...most of the time he must remain in the room; they still have the farm.Marriage Source: Anna Funk Heinrich Gossen
 
2350 "Arrived from South Dakota in 1906 with one daughter Nettie and eight boys" Quote from Waldheim Book pg. 214. Heinrich J. Gossen
 
2351 S. S. Nederland; arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Heinrich J. Gossen
 
2352 Helena was baptized in a Mennonite Church.
Two girls were named Helena one died and they gave the name to the next girl born after her death. The birth order conflicts with what is written in the will of Franz Gossen and what is written in the personal notes of Elizabeth Gossen. 		Helena Gossen
 
2353 Buried at Brotherfield Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery west of Waldheim. Jacob F. "Jack" Gossen
 
2354 The obituary of Ruth Goossen gives additional children: Mrs. Arthur Moir, Mrs. Frank Froese, Mrs. Ed Purdy, Mrs. Norman Singer, and Ted. Lived in Montana. John D. Gossen
 
2355 "Church Book" p. 82a: transferred from Margenau on 3 May 1873. Note that her marr. date to Johann Boese is the same as Elisabet Ratzlaff's. Ratzlaff's entry in "Church Book" does not point to Johann Boese but to her other husband. This makes me wonder if Ratzlaff was ever married to Boese. Justina Gossen
 
2356 hand written notes by Elizabeth Plett Gossen in German translated by Beth Ewert Gossen compiled by A. O. Black 1988. Will of Franz Gossen names the children and gives husbands names. marriage: Brotherfield Book pg. 24. Migration: Brotherfield book pg. 24 says moved to Kansas sisters Justina and Anna married brothers Cornelius and Abraham Loewen Had Phone central per Mabel Gossen Dirks. Justina Gossen
 
2357 S. S. Vaderland; arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Justina Gossen
 
2358 Her Zionsbote obituary says she was born in 1905. She had a second son who died in infancy.
Married Frank Loewen source Mabel Dirks 1990 Source information from family register from Helen Boldt Reunion 1990 also birth place death place and date from photo copy of hand written page given to me by Helen Bolt #22 (filed under Jacob George) 		Martha G. Gossen
 
2359 He and Mary had 3 children. Orville Aaron Gossen
 
2360 Stayed in Russia -5 sons and a daughter who died at age two. Daniel, Heinrich, Abram, Jakob, and Adolf Youngest died and 4 arrested only one survived and made it to freedom. 2 adopted daughters--Tina and Marichen See page 32 of the booklet. --(on Adolf Reimer) At the bottom of the page it mentions an Abram Funk, who was Sarah G. Reimer's cousin (Vetter in German). It says he lived on the same yard as she did. Heinrich Goossen quotes what Abram Funk has to say about Sarah not emigrating to Canada when she had the opportunity. She stayed in Russia because her two oldest sons were involved in an evangelistic mission to the Russians. Sara Gossen
 
2361 Brotherfield says she was born 16 Jan 1882. Susanna Gossen
 
2362 Canada Susanna Gossen
 
2363 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2364 Name and birth information from the article in Marion history book.

The church record books shows a Johann F. Fogt married to Anna Ratzlaff (b orn Oct. 23, 1853) 		Anna Graber
 
2365 The Patricia Smith submission says she was born at Freeman, South Dakota. Anna Graber
 
2366 Farmer/Coop manager Arthur H. Graber
 
2367 One record says she was born 22 Jul 1914. Florence Arleen Graber
 
2368 S. S. City Of Richmond; Arrived New York, New York Katherina Graber
 
2369 S. S. City of Richmond; arrived New York, New York Maria Graber
 
2370 S. S. City Of Richmond; Arrived New York, New York Maria Graber
 
2371 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2372 Daughter of Adam Gramm. Rose Gramm
 
2373 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2374 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2375 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2376 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2377 She lived at Bottineau, North Dakota Celi Graumann
 
2378 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2379 Some sources give death date as 6 Dec. Ferdinand J. Graumann
 
2380 He lived at Harvey, North Dakota. Gene Graumann
 
2381 She lived at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Janell Graumann
 
2382 She lived at Glen Ullin, North Dakota.

One record suggests that she is married to a man with the last name "Krebs." 		Karen Graumann
 
2383 Christian Leader - December 2002:
FRUEH, LUELLA, of Vinewood Community Church of Lodi, CA, was born Jan. 17, 1917, at Harvey, ND, and died Sept. 20, 2002, at the age of 85. In 1937, she was married to Herbert Frueh. She is survived by three sons, Marlowe of Reedley, Richard "Lefty" and Doug, both of Lodi; one daughter, Becky Holley of Lodi; siblings, Robert Graumann of Kansas, Rosella Kessler of Reedley, CA, Marvin Graumann of North Dakota, Glenn Graumann of Reedley, Donald Graumann of Kansas, Carolee Derksen of Kansas and Roger Graumann of Fresno; 10 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. 		Luella Graumann
 
2384 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2385 He was a dentist. He lived in Harvey, North Dakota. Robert C. Graumann
 
2386 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2387 He lived at Baxter, Minnesota. Tom Graumann
 
2388 Died Dec 2?, 1915 Viola Graumann
 
2389 1999 Maplewood, MN David Grefe
 
2390 Daughter of Adam Grenz and Mary Barrett. Paulena Grenz
 
2391 S. S. Teutonia; Arrived New York, New York Abraham Groening
 
2392 The Wiebe book says he was born 11 July 1866. Abraham Groening
 
2393 She was either an adopted or a foster daughter. The names of her birth parents are not given. The Saskatchewan Vitals birth record for her son Victor calls her "Anna Ratzlaff" so that may be the surname of her birth parents. One record says she died 9 Dec. Anna Groening
 
2394 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2395 Hutch News - 8-10-2004: HILLSBORO - Francis J. Groening, 89, died Aug. 8, 2004, at Hillsboro Community Medical Center Long Term Care Unit. He was born July 10, 1915, at Lehigh, the son of Frank U. and Anna Fleming Groening. A Hillsboro resident, he had worked in the sand and gravel business. He belonged to Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. On Nov. 25, 1943, he married Martha Wiens at Meade. She died in 1992. Survivors include: three daughters, Connie Hendrickson, Hillsboro, Sheryl McDaniel, Holton, and Gala Liebelt, Satanta; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, with Pastor Dave Plett presiding. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hillsboro Memorial Chapel. Burial will be Thursday in Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to Celebrate Hope in care of the chapel.

Newton Kansan - 8-8-2004: HILLSBORO -- Francis J. Groening, 89, sand and gravel business owner, died Sunday (Aug. 8, 2004) at Hillsboro Community Medical Center Long Term Care Unit. He was born July 10, 1915, to Frank U. and Anna (Fleming) Groening in Lehigh. He married Martha Wiens Nov. 25, 1943, in Meade. She preceded him in death in 1992. He was a member of Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Survivors include: three daughters, Connie Hendrickson of Hillsboro, Sheryl McDaniel of Holton and Gala Liebelt of Satanta; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Viewing will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hillsboro Memorial Chapel. Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Mennonite Church in Hillsboro with Pastor Dave Plett officiating. Burial will be in Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Memorials have been established with Celebrate Hope in care of the funeral home, 401 S. Washington Street, Hillsboro, KS 67063. 		Francis J. "Junior" Groening
 
2396 The Gnadenau church records say he was born 1 Sept 1834. Those records also indicate that he and his wife had an adopted son, Abraham Schellenberg, born on 27 Sept 1876 (see his record.) The Wiebe book indicates they had another adopted child, whose name is not given. His surname is given incorrectly as "Groming" on the ship arrival list in 1874 in Brothers in Deed, but is given correctly as Groening on the Hamburg departure list per review of the NY arrival list microfilm for the Teutonia. Franz Groening
 
2397 His 2 wives were sisters. Franz F. Groening
 
2398 S. S. Teutonia; arrived New York, New York Franz F. Groening
 
2399 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2400 Migrated to the US from Belowesh, South Russia in 1876. He was formerly Lutheran. One record spells his surname Grose. He immigrated from Catharinaslavsky, Russia, per the Hamburg departure lists. Karl Gross
 
2401 S. S. Wieland; arrived New York, New York Karl Gross
 
2402 Saskatchewan Alfred Grunau
 
2403 Some sources give birthplace as Neu Chortitza, Baratov, South Russia.

Some sources give birthplace as Neu Chortitza, Baratov, South Russia. 		Alfred Grunau
 
2404 Daryl was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 14. His death was due to accident. Daryl Lyle Grunau
 
2405 One record says she died 3 Feb 1978. Helena Grunau
 
2406 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2407 Okeene, Oklahoma Peter C. Grunau
 
2408 One record says he was born 19 Aug 1946. Rodlyn Lee Grunau
 
2409 The Grunau book says she was born 15 July.
Fairview Republican - 12-21-2006:
Funeral services for Rosella Thomas, 93, were Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, at the Trinity Mennonite Church in Hillsboro, KS. Pastor Dave Plett and Pastor Marvin Hein officiated. Burial followed at the South Fairview Mennonite Brethren Cemetery, Fairview. Services were performed by Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro, KS.
She was born July 15, 1913, to J. C. Grunau and Minnie Hein Grunau in Isabella, and passed away, Dec. 10, 2006.
She married Jacob Thomas on Oct. 1, 1933, at Fairview. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by one son, James and Betty Thomas, Hillsboro, KS; five daughters, Loretta and Archie Heide, St. Catherine's, Ontario, Shirley and Waldo Neufeldt, Roswell, GA, Nevonna and David Schroeder, Oklahoma City, and Betty Turner, Marietta, GA, and Jaylene and Jim Gudenkauf, Broomfield, CO; one brother Clifford and Polly Grunau, Perryton, TX; two sisters, Ruby Suderman, Hillsobro and Wilma Evert, Elk Grove, CA; 16 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband and one brother.

Hutchinson News - 12-12-2006:
HILLSBORO - Rosella Thomas, 93, died Dec. 10, 2006, at Parkside Homes, Hillsboro.
She was born July 15, 1913, in Isabella, Okla., the daughter of J.C. and Minnie Hein Grunau. A resident of Hillsboro, she was a homemaker.
She belonged to Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.
On Oct. 1, 1933, she married Jacob Thomas in Fairview, Okla. He died.
Survivors include: a son, James, Hillsboro; five daughters, Loretta Heide, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, Shirley Neufeldt, Roswell, Ga., Nevonna Schroeder, Oklahoma City, Betty Turner, Marietta, Ga., and Jaylene Gudenkauf, Broomfield, Colo.; a brother, Clifford Grunau, Perryton, Texas; two sisters, Rudy Suderman, Hillsboro, and Wilma Ewert, Elk Grove, Calif.; 16 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, with Pastors Dave Plett and Marvin Hein presiding. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Friday in South Fairview Mennonite Brethren Cemetery, Fairview, Okla.
Memorials may be sent to the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church Building Fund or Tabor College, in care of the funeral home.

Newton Kansan - PUBLISHED: Tuesday, December 12, 2006
HILLSBORO - Rosella Thomas, 93, died Sunday (Dec. 10, 2006) in Hillsboro.
Survivors include a son, James Thomas, and sister, Ruby Suderman, both of Hillsboro.
Service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Mennonite Church in Hillsboro.
Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday at South Fairview Mennonite Brethren Cemetery in Fairview, Okla.
Family will receive guests from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro.

Christian Leader - March 2007:
THOMAS, ROSELLA MAE, Hillsboro, KS, of Hillsboro MB Church, was born July 15, 1913, to J. C. and Minnie Grunau near Isabella, OK and died Dec. 10, 2006, at the age of 93. On Oct. 1, 1933, she married Jacob Thomas, who predeceased her Aug. 21, 1973. She is survived by one son, James and wife Betty of Hillsboro; five daughters, Loretta and husband Archie Heide of St. Catharines, Ont., Shirley and husband Wally Neufeltdt of Roswell, GA, Nevonna and husband David Schroeder of Oklahoma City, OK, Betty Turner of Marietta, GA, and Jaylene and husband Jim Gudenkauf of Broomfield, CO; one brother, Clifford and wife Polly of Perryton, TX; two sisters, Ruby Suderman of Hillsboro, and Wilma Ewert of Elk Grove, CA; sister-in-law, LeOra Grunau of Hillsboro, 16 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. 		Rosella Mae Grunau
 
2410 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2411 This is the father of Arlene Guenther (1919-1923) who died in Shafter, CA and was buried on the family farm south of town.
When neighbors became upset about burials there (more than one) the graves were exhumed and moved across the street (and railroad tracks) to the new Shafter Cemetery on land donated for the purpose. Her sister Vernel Migdat described (2002 to Mike Dirksen) looking in the casket before they buried her again, and seeing that her pretty white dress still looked nice. 		Abraham Cornelius Guenther
 
2412 She died in Shafter, CA and was buried on the family farm south of town. When neighbors became upset about burials there (more than one) the graves were exhumed and moved across the street (and railroad tracks) to the new Shafter Cemetery on land donated for the purpose. Her sister Vernel Migdat described (2002 to Mike Dirksen) looking in the casket before they buried her again, and seeing that her pretty white dress still looked nice. Arline Mae Guenther
 
2413 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2414 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2415 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2416 Source listed place of birth as "Blumenstein, Ukraine, Russia" Cause of Death: Died after having prostate surgery. Was visiting in Sask. Mabel Gossen Dirks remembers being away from home and having to return for the Funeral of Kornelius with some figuring John Beth and Mabel decided it was about 1932 and a son Herb was with Kornelius. Cornelius (C.C.) Guenther
 
2417 In the 1880 U. S. Census he is listed in Township 100, Turner Co., Dakota Territory. He had a total of 13 children with Eva Duerksen, 2 predeceased him. Cornelius F. Guenther
 
2418 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2419 Cause of Death: phneumonia after 6 weeks Darrell Lee Guenther
 
2420 St. Paul, MN Dean Guenther
 
2421 Cause of Death: Cancer Delia Luella Guenther
 
2422 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2423 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2424 Cause of Death: Car Accident Edward Kenneth "Eddie" Guenther
 
2425 I assume she died young because she had a younger sister of the same name. Elisabeth Guenther
 
2426 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elisabeth Guenther
 
2427 Birth Source: Gossen, Robert K.; Family Records Birth Source: Sperling, Kathy. email to Mike Dirksen dated Sept 2004. Death Source: Sperling, Kathy. email to Mike Dirksen dated Sept 2004. Notes: Bob Gossen says he was born 23 Jan 1912. Bought the Mary Wall farm on section 10 in New Home, Lowery Township, Stutsman Co, ND where Willis Seibold uncovered four coffins in 1995. Sold it about 1953 and moved to OR for a year. Returned to Jamestown, ND, where he drove the school bus and Gert worked at Penny's.

10 Jan 2008 email son Jerry Guenther,

"Ref the farm Section 10. My grandfather, C. C. Guenther (Cornelius) made a homestead on the East half of Section 10. This was about 1899. I believe the West half or possibly the Northwest Quarter was the homestead of the Wall family. Looking at old maps the Peter's family owned 80 acres at some point but I am not sure how that fit in. My grandfather purchased this land from the Wall family. I am not sure your e mail address is the same. I can send you a copy of the orginal contract between Mary Wall a widow and C. C. Guenther in on September 29, 1905.

"This is the farm I grew up on which was purchased by Willis Siebold. There is a long shelter belt of Box Elder Trees by the homestead.. This was planted by my grandfather. About 100 feet from the shelter belt is one lone Box Elder Tree. My father always thought and was told a member of the Wall family was buried beneath that tree. He seemed to think it was Mary Wall, however I do not believe that is true. So, the Wall farm was purchased by Cornelius Guenther, then Willis Siebold and he recently sold this farm to a young farmer named Rexine.

"Now to the East half of Section 10. As I wrote my grandfather was the homesteader of this half section. In about 1932 he gave it to my Uncle William Guenther. Uncle William sold it to my father in about 1940. In 1976 my father, Emil passed it on to me. I still own that farm where the 4 coffins were found in 1995.

"The story behind the discovery of these coffins is as follows. The road leading from County Road 30 to the Siebold farm needed to be upgraded. I gave permission to Willis Siebold to take the dirt needed from a hill located on my farm. This was in 1995. He was in the process of moving this dirt to fill his road when he discovered the coffins. On the date he discovered them I was in Jamestown, North Dakota. The following morning I drove to my farm and met Willis at the site of the coffins. We decided to notify the state of his finding.

"There has been a lot of speculation on who these four people were. A Mr. Banen, I believe came to a conclusion of who they were with help from the Mrs. Lawrence Stolz whose parents were pioneers in the New Home area. She felt they part of a family who belonged to the Seventh Day Advent Church and that was a cemetery as the Wall's lived nearby. She seemed to think the Wall's were the original owners of that half section. This theory does not fit the facts as I know them. My grandfather was the original homesteader. He was a child of Cornelius Franz and Eva Guenther. This family never left the Minonite Church so why would the Seventh Day Advents chose his land as a Cemetery. No person other than a Guenther has ever owned that piece of land.

"After my father sold the West half of Section 10 to Willis Siebold, he purchased 480 acres of land on Section 9. This was in 1954. He farmed from 1954 from Jamestown, North Dakota. He farmed 800 acres of section 9 and 10. In the 1970s her operated the Guenther Motel in Jamestown and continued farming. In the summer my mother operated the motel and Dad farmed. He sold the motel in about 1980 and went into semi retirement. It was only from about 1972 to 1977 or so he drove school bus. My father was a very astute businessman and a very good farmer. My family did move to Oregon for about six months in September, 1953 returning to North Dakota in March 1954. My mother did work for J. C. Penny in Jamestown for many years.

"Frank Gossen was my great grandfather as I am sure you know.. I believe the correct spelling for Goossen is Gossen. I am checking with a Gossen Cousin on this as Frank was her grandfather and she is a Gossen. There may also have been two spellings of the name. . Frank or Franz is the correct name. He did have one son named Jacob. I cannot remember what his father's name was. I will see if I can get that info for you on Jacob.

Jerry Guenther
gguenther1@aol 		Emil Clifford Guenther
 
2428 from "Then and Now Parker 1879-1979" in Freeman library

Lived in Huron, frmed near Iroquois 		Emma Guenther
 
2429 He was residing in Blumstein in 1862 and 1874 per the Molotschna school registers. He immigrated from Blumstein, bound for Yankton, SD per the Bremen departure lists. In the 1880 U. S. Census he is listed in Township 100, Turner Co., Dakota Territory. Franz Guenther
 
2430 Nettie and Helena married brothers Kornelius and Frank. These two sisters did not migrate to Canada with the rest of the family in 1898/9. A narrative describing the Frank Guenthers is in the ND centennial book "Tale of Three Cities". Franz (Frank) Guenther
 
2431 S. S. Strassburg; arrived New York, New York Franz (Frank) Guenther
 
2432 Died at the age of 9. George Cornelius Guenther
 
2433 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2434 Cause of Death: Brain Tumor Gordon John Guenther
 
2435 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2436 Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrhage Herbert John Guenther
 
2437 CLiff Wall reports there were 5 children. -md Jacob Cornelius Guenther
 
2438 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2439 children as listed in Remembering Our Heritage. -cw John Cornelius Guenther
 
2440 Leo died in infancy at the age of one month and three days. Cause of death was pneumonia Leo Dean Guenther
 
2441 Her age is given as 7 on the ship passenger list in 1884, which is incorrect. Batch 5007908 Sheet 1 Source 1553366. Margaretha Guenther
 
2442 Her Zionsbote obituary says she was born 15 January. She had a total of 8 children, 3 predeceased her. Maria Guenther
 
2443 Born between Cornelius and Frank. Died age 10 months in Parker SD. Mary Guenther
 
2444 Born between Cornelius and Frank. Died age 10 months in Parker SD. Mary Guenther
 
2445 Born between Cornelius and Frank. Died age 10 months in Parker SD. Mary Guenther
 
2446 from "Then and Now Parker 1879-1979"

Mary and Carl Wright farmed south of Parker before moving to Mt. Pleasan t, Iowa 		Mary Guenther
 
2447 Mike Dirksen says she was born 17 Dec 1897. Cause of Death: cancer Buried at Acacia Park Cemetery Mathilda Belle Guenther
 
2448 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2449 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2450 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2451 He was a Chiropractor in Shafter, Ca. -cw Peter Cornelius Guenther
 
2452 Estherville, Iowa Richard Guenther
 
2453 Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage Theadore "Ted" Guenther
 
2454 Mike Dirksen says he was born 9 Aug 1903. Wiliam and Eva were married in a rural church near Bowden. William Guenther
 
2455 Born and died at birth. Unknown place in family order. _____ Guenther
 
2456 Born and died at birth. Unknown place in family order. _____ Guenther
 
2457 Born and died at birth. Unknown place in family order. _____ Guenther
 
2458 I assume she died young because she had a younger sister of the same name. Elisabeth Gunther
 
2459 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2460 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2461 Cliff Wall reports last name as Gutsmiller. Mary Gutzman
 
2462 Christian Leader - July 2003:
HAAG, CAROL JEAN, Bakersfield, CA, of Heritage MB Church, Bakersfield, was born March 11, 1942, to William James and Hulda Edna Ratzlaff Haag, and died Oct. 28, 1999, at the age of 57. She was survived by her mother, one sister, Beverly Southard, one niece, one nephew, one grand nephew and two grand nieces. 		Carol Jean Haag
 
2463 Christian Leader - July 2003:
HAAG, WILLIAM JAMES "BILL", Bakersfield, CA, member of Heritage MB Church, Bakersfield, was born Feb. 1, 1913 at Rio Bravo, CA to James E. and Mary Kennedy Haag, and died Aug. 26, 1997, at the age of 84. On March 11, 1938, he was married to Hulda Edna Ratzlaff who survived him. He was also survived by two daughters, Carol Jean Haag and Beverly Southard; a brother and sisters, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren. 		William James Haag
 
2464 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2465 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2466 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2467 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2468 Ebenfeld says he was born 15 Dec 1835. He migrated from Eichenfeld, Yazykovo, Russia to the US in 1876. He was originally Lutheran. His age is given as 38 on the ship passenger list in 1876, which is incorrect. He immigrated from Neurosenberg, Russia, per the Hamburg departure lists. Georg Heinrich Hagen
 
2469 S. S. Wieland; arrived New York, New York Georg Heinrich Hagen
 
2470 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2471 S. S. Wieland; arrived New York, New York John Hagen
 
2472 Was placed in a state mental asylum because he had epilepsy and a mental disorder. Peter Loewen wrote (in the Siebel book) that they buried him in a church cemetary about four miles from Emmaus (about 200 miles from St. Louis, MO). None of his loved ones showed up. John Hagen
 
2473 She married a Wuertzer and lived in Karkson, S.D. Amanda Hager
 
2474 She married a Schindler and lived in Lodi, CA. Ella Hager
 
2475 The Silver Lake SD record says he was born 21 Jan 1847. Gustav Hager
 
2476 She married a Buber and lived in Herreid, S.D. Laura Hager
 
2477 The Heidi Funk submission says he died 30 July 1945. Willy Hajer
 
2478 from "Then and Now Parker 1879-1979" in Freeman library

They farmed north of Parker. Hattie taught rural school near their hom e. She was also Deputy Supt. of Schools in Turner County. 		Hattie Halsey
 
2479 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2480 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2481 One record says she died 18 Oct. Justina Hamm
 
2482 She is found with family #30 in the Ohrloff Church Book. Justina Hamm
 
2483 She was born 20 Apr 1844 per p. 24 of Alexandra (Glinjanj) Penner's records. Katharina Hamm
 
2484 Her new style birthdate was 30 Mar. Maria Hamm
 
2485 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2486 Peter and Tina went to live with his older brother, the John Hamm family in 1936. Both John and Tina Harder Hamm died leaving a large family behind and Peter and Tina Hamm became the foster parents.. Peter A. Hamm
 
2487 One record says he was born 26 Jun 1848. Johann Hannemann
 
2488 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2489 Brotherfield says his surname was Handon. Donald Hanson
 
2490 They raised and trained Appaloosas on their Blue Arrow Ranch in Salem. Lee Hanson
 
2491 He was from Koldau, Prussia. Abraham Harder
 
2492 Cliff Wall reports a fourth child, Harley. md Abraham C. Harder
 
2493 Marie Voth and Abraham Harder went to Brazil as missionaries. -cw Abraham C. Harder
 
2494 The Wiebe book says that he died in 1942. Abraham F. Harder
 
2495 The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Halbstadt #4, and says he came to Russia in 1803. Abraham Johann Harder
 
2496 He lived at Reedley, California.
1983 Dinuba, California 		Abraham Menno Harder
 
2497 Mountain Lake 1878 p. 33: baptized by Gerhard Neufeld. Mountain Lake 1912 p. 21b: "Wegezogen". He lived in Lostwood, ND and later in Warroad, MN. Abraham P. Harder
 
2498 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2499 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2500 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2501 One record says she died on 20 Mar. Anna Harder
 
2502 One Reedley record says that she was born 1897.
Place of residence in 1983 was Dinuba, Calif. 		Anna Harder
 
2503 She was married on 17 Sept 1916. Anna Harder
 
2504 She was married on 5 Dec 1946. Anna Louise Harder
 
2505 Bethel Inman I p. 263 gives a birth year of 1902 no date. Bethel Inman II p. 70 gives a birth date of 13 Sept 1901. "nach Brudertal, Meade" p. 71: baptized by Klaas Kroeker. Anna W. Harder
 
2506 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2507 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2508 Some sources say he died on 7 January. Bernhard Harder
 
2509 The Mountain Lake records say that he was born on 2 May. Bernhard Cornelius "Ben" Harder
 
2510 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2511 She was married on 6 Aug 1946. Clara Viola Harder
 
2512 He and Sulvina went to Africa as missionaries. -cw David E. Harder
 
2513 They moved to the Medstead area in Saskatchewan in 1946. Later they moved to British Columbia. -cw David F. Harder
 
2514 He was married on 26 May 1925. Harder's book gives DOD as 19 Nov 1994. SS death records give DOD as Nov 1984, Harder's must be a typo. David L. Harder
 
2515 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2516 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2517 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2518 Her old style birth date was 27 Aug. Elisabeth Harder
 
2519 The Mountain Lake records say that she was born on 12 Feb. Elisabeth Harder
 
2520 She was married on 1 Sept 1924. Elizabeth Harder
 
2521 She stayed in the USA and went to Hillboro, Kansas and took her nurses training. She worked in Kansas, Mo. In 1939 she married Sam and they moved to a farm near Carpenter, South Dakota Sam sied in 1073. Then in 1978 Elizabeth moved to Saskatchewan to live with the Ben Harders. -cw Elizabeth F. Harder
 
2522 Another source has o.s. birth date as 16 Feb 1854 and marriage date as 23 May 1875. New style birth date is 28 Feb 1854. Resident of Altona, Manitoba, Canada. Joined Bergthal Church in 1902. Franz Harder
 
2523 R67-1 Franz Harder
 
2524 They had 10 chldren before katharina died. See GRANDMA#177849. -md Franz Harder
 
2525 His Heubuden church record has a note he went to Russia in 1803. In the 1808 census, he is listed at Blumstein #4, and is said to have come from Koldau, Prussia. In the census is also listed his mother Anna, born cir 1728. The 1835 Molotschna Census entry for Blumstein #33 lists his son. Franz Abraham Harder
 
2526 Places of Residence: Mountain Lake MN, Reedley CA Church Affiliation: Immanuel Mennonite, Baptized at Bergfelder Church, Mountain Lake MN. Loved to sew, quilt, crochet and design beautiful things to wear. Frieda Goldie Harder
 
2527 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2528 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2529 Rev. Gregory Harder died at the age of 46 years on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Greg grew up in Calgary. He graduated from the Canadian Bible College in Regina in 1985. Ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in 1992, served as youth and assistant pastor at Deer Park Alliance Church in Red Deer, Sherwood Park Alliance Church and Alliance Bible Church in Hillsboro, Oregon. The Funeral was held on Friday, December 15 at Southview Alliance Church in Calgary, AB. Gregory Harder
 
2530 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2531 The Harder book says he was born 16 May. Heinrich F. Harder
 
2532 After 1962 Butterfield, MN. Helena Harder
 
2533 She was married on 11 June 1916. Helena Harder
 
2534 The Wiebe book says she was born 4 Aug. Helena Harder
 
2535 One record says he was born at Lehigh, Kansas. Henry and Dinah were married on the yard of her parents, Tobias and Helena Schmidt. Refer to source "Waldheim Remembers the Past" - pg 221 Henry F. Harder
 
2536 He was married on 1 Jan 1927. Henry John Harder
 
2537 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2538 Howard and his daughter died as a result of an auto accident. Jaelynn was killed instantly and Howard died two days later. Caroline and Kim recovered. Died at University Hospital, Saskatoon. Buried in the Salem cemetery, north west of Waldheim. Howard Wayne Harder
 
2539 She was married on 16 June 1940. Irene Renetta Harder
 
2540 In the 1835 census, he is listed at Tiegerweide #1, and is said to have come to Russia in 1803. He moved to Tiegerweide in 1833. The entry for Halbstadt No. 29 says he moved away from Halbstadt in 1832. Isbrand Johann Harder
 
2541 He was an ordained minister in the Krimmer Mennonite Brethern church, He was also ateacher and later gave up teaching and took up farming. In the fall of 1918 he and son Peter, moved the family equipment and animals by train to Waldheim, Saskatchewan. Wife Anna and children Ben, Tina, Anna and David, later arrived by train. Ishbrand was a farmer. He also was a Trustee and Secretary Treasurer of the Brotherfield School' District #669 for 13 years. Isbrand died on September 7, 1945. Anna had previously passed away on August 14, 1939. -cw Isbrandt J. Harder
 
2542 One family record says he was born 26 Feb. Isbrandt J. Harder
 
2543 In the 1808 census, he is listed as an "Einwohner" in Blumstein. Jacob Harder
 
2544 S. S. Vaderland; arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jacob Harder
 
2545 The Mountain Lake records say he was born 29 May. He was (re)baptized in 1906.His Zionsbote obituary says he was born 30 May 1848. Jacob Harder
 
2546 One record says he was born 27 Jul 1879. They also raised a foster daughter, Della Goossen (who married Donald Lukanen). Jacob S. Harder
 
2547 Died in auto accident. Buried in the Salem cemetery, north west of Waldheim. Jaelynn Gaye Harder
 
2548 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2549 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2550 His age is given as 51 on the ship passenger list in 1874, which is incorrect. His n.s. birth date was 20 Aug 1836. Johann settled in Marion County, KS.
Johann & Elisabeth had 11 children, 4 died. 		Johann Harder
 
2551 One family record gives a possible death date of 27 Oct 1782. Johann Harder
 
2552 One record says he was from Huben, Prussia. National Archives microfilm #T81 609, p. 5399808 states he was born 24 May 1733. The 1835 Molotschna Census entry for Blumstein #15 says that son Johann's father was named Abraham! Further research is needed to determine whether the 1835 Molotschna Census was in error in this regard or not. Possibly Johann Harder (b. 1764) wasn't a son of Johann Harder (b. 1733). Johann Harder
 
2553 Unruh states that he was from the village of Koldau, West Prussia. In the 1808 census, he is listed at Blumstein #16. The 1835 Molotschna Census entry for Blumstein #15 says that he died in 1827. There is a problem in that the 1835 Molotschna Census entry says that his father was an Abraham Harder. Could his parentage here be wrong? Could this be the same person as #83546? Johann Abraham Harder
 
2554 One record gives his marriage date as 14 Feb 1880. His name is incorrectly His name is given as "Johanna" on the NY arrival list in 1874, but is correctly given as Johann on the Hamburg indirect list. Johann F. Harder
 
2555 See Harder material for more. Johann Homer Harder
 
2556 The 1835 Molotschna Census lists him at Blumstein #15. Johann Johann Harder
 
2557 The Harder book says he was born in Hillsboro, Kansas. The Dinuba records say he was married on 15 Oct. John J. Harder
 
2558 "out to 7th Day Adv." page 2:p197: "Austritt u. Ursache: Anschluss an die Adventisten" page 2:p250: baptized by Peter H. Unruh. p. 2:p281: married by Peter H. Unruh. John L. Harder
 
2559 Hutch News - 8-25-2004: MOUNDRIDGE - Joseph C. "Joe" Harder, 88, died Aug. 21, 2004, at Central Dupage Hospital, Windfield, Ill. He was born Feb. 1, 1916, at Hillsboro, the son of David E. and Margaret Flaming Harder. A Carol Stream, Ill., resident for 21/2 years, moving from Moundridge, he was a part of the Kansas State Legislature for 32 years. He was also a Moundridge businessman. On Dec. 24, 1939, he married Maryan L. Brooks at Kansas City, Mo. She survives. Other survivors include: a son; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Newton Kansan - 8-24-2004: MOUNDRIDGE -- Joseph "Joe" C. Harder, 88, member of the Kansas State Legislature for 32 years and Moundridge businessman, died Saturday (Aug. 21, 2004) at Central Dupage Hospital in Winfield, Ill. He was born Feb. 1, 1916, to David E. and Margaret (Flaming) Harder in Hillsboro. He married Maryan L. Brooks Dec. 24, 1939, in Kansas City, Mo. She survives. He attended Bethel College. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a member of the Moundridge Lions Club and the Masonic Lodge. He was a member of Moundridge United Methodist Church. Other survivors include: a son, J. Brooks Harder of Wheaton, Ill.; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by: three brothers, Meno, David and Ted; and a sister, Rosella Becker. 		Joseph Carl Harder
 
2560 She was married on 4 Feb 1945. Josephine Annie Harder
 
2561 She was a nurse and a missionary to the Belgian Congo in the 1930's. Katharina Harder
 
2562 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2563 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2564 In the genealogy book of Abraham Koop it lists a wife as Edna Chamberlin. Leonard Harder
 
2565 One record says she was born 7 Jul 1910.
Mountain Lake Gospel Mennonite Church 1930 		Margaret Harder
 
2566 Her first name is given only in Unruh. In the Harder book, a "daughter" is listed as having married 1st. a Giesbrecht and 2nd. a Warkentin. Maria Harder
 
2567 Karasuk, Russia Maria Harder
 
2568 One record says she was born 7 Sep 1915. Maria Ann Harder
 
2569 She was married on 18 May 1935. Marie Harder
 
2570 The Reedley records say that she was born at Rogers, Texas. She was married on 20 Oct 1952. JMH says that she was born on 26 Oct. Marie Harder
 
2571 She was married on 2 Dec 1941. Martha Agatha Harder
 
2572 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2573 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2574 Professor of English and Sociology, Tabor College, Hillsboro, KS.
Bethel College p. 222: baptized by John J. Friesen. Joined 7 Oct 1945 by letter from Mennonite Brethren church, Hillsboro. 		Menno Simon Harder
 
2575 One record gives her birth date as 23 Oct 1909. Hepburn M.B. Church record book #17 gives her birthdate as Oct. 23, 1909. Miriam Elizabet Harder
 
2576 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2577 She was married on 18 Aug 1951. Norma Evangeline Harder
 
2578 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2579 One record says he was born 28 May 1918.
In 1952, they moved to San Diego where Oland's engineering duties for Convair and Rockwell took them to various parts of the country.
2001 San Diego, CA 		Orlando B. Harder
 
2580 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2581 His marriage to MB was his third. Peter Harder
 
2582 He had three children: Marilyn, Dale, and Donna. His wife was a sister of Minnie Wall, his brother Abraham's wife. I believe that she was the same person listed in the Wall family as "Emma."
1983 Poulsbo, Washington 		Peter Ezra Janzen Harder
 
2583 He was a farmer near Waldheim, Saskatchewan. He purchased a farm in the early 1930's which was formerly owned by Benjamin A. Unruh, a brother of the famous Tobias A. Unruh. In 1957 Peter bought the old Brotherfield School house and moved it to his farm where it was used for a chicken and pig house. -cw Peter F. Harder
 
2584 Peter retired to the Town of Waldheim from the farm in 1966. Peter F. Harder
 
2585 Ross died in 1951. Ross Allan Harder
 
2586 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2587 1983 Dinuba, California. Sara "Sadie" Harder
 
2588 obit-She worked as a secretary at Mt Lake Public School for one year.She was an organist and SS teacher at Immanuel Menn Church. Susan also enjoyed singing with her sisters, writing letters and praying for others. Susan Arna Harder
 
2589 Mountain Lake Observer -
Services for Susie Eitzen, 90, of Mt. Lake, were held Saturday morning, January 31, at the Lakeview Gospel Church in Mt. Lake with Rev. Eldin Classen and Rev. Ernie Neufeld officiating. Burial followed in the Mt. Lake Cemetery.
Mrs. Eitzen died on Wednesday afternoon, January 28, at the Good Samaritan Village in Mt. Lake.
Susie Leonora Harder, the daughter of Jacob S. and Margaretha (Goossen) Harder was born February 27, 1907, in Dale Township, Cottonwood County. She received her education at Cottonwood County District 77 country school near Delft and the German School in Mt. Lake.
Susie was baptized and accepted into the Immanuel Mennonite Church in Delft early in her youth. She later transferred her membership to the Bergfelder Mennonite Church, now the Lakeview Gospel Chruch in Mt. Lake, where she remained a faithful member until her death.
She met Peter Eitzen on one of his frequent visits with his parents, the Rev. D. P. Eitzens at the Delft Mennonite Church where his father was a guest minister. On one of these visits, Susie's mother invited the Eitzen family for dinner after the service. Mrs. Harder graciously invited Peter to come back, and he did.
Susie and Peter D. Eitzen were married at the Immanuel Mennonite Church in Delft on March 13, 1929, and they remained married for over 68 years. They lived on a farm near Delft for many years. In 1940, they moved to their farm near Mt. Lake and lived there until moving into Mt. Lake in 1970. They enjoyed many winters at their mobile home in Mesa, AZ.
Susie and Peter entered the Good Samaritan Village in Mt. Lake on January 23, 1990.
Peter died on October 6, 1997.
Susie was dedicated to the activities of her church, serving as a Sunday School teacher, as chairman of the King's Co-Worker's Society several times, and as a member of the Ladies Choir. She thoroughly enjoyed her neighborhood group, and quilting and sewing. In her later years, she was a volunteer at the Good Samaritan Village.
She is survived by three daughters, Beulah Kroeker and her husband Ellsworth of Mt. Lake, Lois Klippenstein and her husband, Ervin, of Fullerton, CA, and E. Ruth Fast and her husband, LaVerne, of San Diego, CA; a daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Schmidt and her husband Dallas, of Mt. Lake; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister, Ann Fast and her husband, Rudy, of Auburn, WA; a foster sister, Della Lukanen and her husband, Don of Brooklyn Park; a sister-in-law, Helen Harder of Butterfield; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Peter; a son Gordon Eitzen; a sister, Margaret Stoesz; and a brother, Jack Harder.
Pallbearers included: Lisa Bierker, Michael Bierker, Marc Eitzen, Randy Fast, Susan Gumpert, Thomas Gumpert, Randy Imhoff, Stephanie Imhoff, Stephen Klippenstein, John F. Koester, Lorelie Koester, Chet Kroeker, Colleen Kroeker, Elliott Kroeker, and Signe Thompson. 		Susan Leonora Harder
 
2590 Her death date is in the new style. Susanna Harder
 
2591 Suzanne died in the early morning in a single car roll-over accident, most likely caught by loose gravel, on her way to work at the Berry Farm north of her parents farm yard. She died the same year that several of her peers had died tragically at Hannah, Alberta, on their way home from a Mennonite Brethren Youth event that had taken place in the Banff, Alberta area. Suzanne Alayne Harder
 
2592 Arrived in Hillsboro, KS July 2, 1909. Died of cancer. Tena Harder
 
2593 Harder's book gives DOB as 21 Dec 1910. Theodore John Harder
 
2594 She lived in Dinuba, California. Valorie June Harder
 
2595 She died of complications of childbirth. Aganetha "Agnes" Harms
 
2596 Christian Leader 6-1998: Member Dallas MB - Survived by two sons, Galen & wife Jonell (Dallas) and Marlin & wife Connie (Morro Bay, CA); 1 daughter, Connie & husband Al Wilson (Tualatin, OR); 1 sister, Lena Isaac (Meade, KS); 5 grand & 2 great-grandchildren. Andrew D. Harms
 
2597 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2598 S. S. State Of Nevada; Arrived New York, New York Cornelius Harms
 
2599 Christian Leader - January, 2004: HARMS, CORNELIUS D., a member of Reedley (CA) MB Church, was born Oct. 9, 1908, in Kansas and died Nov. 20, 2003, at the age of 95. He was married to Tena Warkentin who predeceased him. He is survived by three sons, Marvin and wife Darlene, Clarence and wife Carol, and Jerry and wife Linda; one daughter, Eileen and husband Harold Hunnicutt; one daughter-in-law, Mary; two brothers, Henry and Ed; brothers-in-law, John Block, Fred Friesn, Erwin Warkentin and wife June, Ralph Warkentin and wife Margie; sister-in-law Dorothy and husband Laveen, 13 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. Cornelius D. Harms
 
2600 R67-1 Daniel Harms
 
2601 One record says he was married in Lehigh, Kansas.
Emigrated 1908 to Canada with family settling in Waldheim, Saskatchewan. 		David Harms
 
2602 S. S. State of Nevada; arrived New York, New York David Harms
 
2603 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2604 Emigrated 1908 to Canada settling in Waldheim, Sask. Edward Harms
 
2605 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2606 She lived her early life in Corn where her father, P.B. Harms, was president of the Corn State Bank during the era of the Kimes Brothers bank robbers. Erna Harms
 
2607 Her o.s. birth date was 9 Aug 1870. Eva Harms
 
2608 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2609 Because she was raised by step father Franz Sawatzky, she was sometimes called "Sawatzky's Katharina". Helena Harms
 
2610 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2611 Served as pastor of EMB-Meade from 1920-1943
Meade Globe Press - 1949: REV. HARMS ONE OF FEW PASTOR-FARMERS IN AREA The Rev. Henry R Harms, 59, will have been a Settlement pastor for thirty years next August, and is one of the lessening number of rural pastors who divide their time between the ministry and farming. He has been pastor of the Emmanuel Mennonite church five miles south and four miles east of Meade for the last seven years. His parish reaches some 12 miles southeast, 12 miles northwest, six miles southwest, and to the Fowler area northeast. There are approximately 50 families in his congregation, with an average Sunday school attendance of 250. He estimates the average farm to be approximately a half section. Industrious Changes The people in his charge are industrious and thrifty, with neat farmsteads and modern homes. He reported that nearly all of them are on the new CMS REA system, and those who are not have adequate farm electric plants of their own. Many of them belong to the farm bureau and take advantage of the educational services of this farm organization. Rev. Harms is easing out of farming and giving more and more of his time to spiritual duties. He recommended the work of the new Meade County Soil Conservation district, and said that if he were going into farming on a more extensive scale, he would put into practice the soil conservation plans that were applicable to the land he farms. Farms 160 Acres He farms 160 acres, with but 60 acres in cultivation, in wheat and feed. He was busy Thursday morning fixing fence, and said that in order to do justice to his duties as a minister, her shouldn’t have to be doing that. He said the time is just about here when his church will need a full time pastor. His son, Harold, 17, a senior in the Meade Bible Academy, is a big help to him with the farm work, and on many occasions members of the congregation do some of the work on the farm. Other sons and daughters in his family are: Mrs. Harry Entz, A Wichita housewife; Elmer, a truck driver, and Arthur, a teacher at Hillsboro; Andrew, a farmer at Lehigh; Martha of the home; Vernon, in school at Grace Bile Institute, Omaha; Ann of the home, and Elizabeth, a teacher at Lehigh. More of the young people are now going on to college to prepare themselves for teaching, missionary work, the ministry, and other vocations. However, the old practice of parents setting their children up with farms is practiced as much as possible. It is difficult to place them on farms, these days, because good farm land is becoming harder to get. This holds true at Meade, and all over the country as well, Rev. Harms reports. The tendency is to smaller families than in the earlier days, he said. Two Settlement Churches There are two churches in the Settlement: the Emmanuel, and the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren. The EMB church is located eight miles south and four miles east of Meade. Te Meade Bible Academy is located near the EMB church. The Rev. John N Wall is the EMB pastor. The history of the Settlement churches is interesting. Rev. Harms’ church is the continuation of the early Kleine Gemeinde, which included the present church, and the “Long Church,” which was six miles south and six miles eat of Emmanuel church. Both churches were considered the same congregation, but with seperate services. At one time there was the Nebo church, three miles south and two miles west of Emmanuel, which was absorbed into the EMB church. The old “Long Church” building has been moved to become a part of the Bible Academy campus. Rev. and Mrs. Harms were both born near Fairbury, Neb., he on Nov 20, 1890, and she on Feb 6, 1891. She is the former Maggie Thiessen. They were married near Fairbury on March 32, 1912. Before coming to Meade to take over the EMB pastorate in 1910, Rev. Harms was assistant pastor at Jansen Neb., for two years. He held the Meade EMB pastorate until he became pastor of the Emmanuel church seven years ago. Farm Bureau Member He is a member of the Meade County Farm Bureau; on the Bible Academy board, on the board and vice president of Grace Children’s home at Henderson, Neb.; on the advisory council of Grace Bible Institute at Omaha, and on the missions board of the EMB Conference. He will be at Omaha and Henderson Monday through Thursday where he will attend board meetings. He regretted the loss of much good soil during the year’s heavy rains. He sees the need of preserving the land for the welfare of his congregation, and that is why he’s so interested in the new soil conservation practices. On the religious side of his ministry, he sees the need to “bring the country back to God. “We either live for the Lord, or we live for the devil,” he said. Too many congregations and their pastors have become “worldly,” in his opinion. He urges and adherence to Christian practices, and sees great need for deeper spiritual faith. He sees the church as the only force that can combat the evils of communism, and believes we are doomed unless we get back to the fundamental principles of Christianity on which our democracy is founded. Place to Raise Family He believes the farm is the best place to raise a Christian family. Children do not face as many distractions, and can be more easily taught industry and responsibility. And the farm today offers just about everything that can be had in town, in the way of modern conveniences, and modern transportation can take the farmer anywhere he wants to go quickly and comfortably. 		Henry R. Harms
 
2612 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2613 His new style birth date was 7 Sept. The Christian Leader says he was married on 7 July 1908. Isaac C. Harms
 
2614 His age is given as 39 on the ship passenger list in 1875, which is incorrect. One record says he died in 1888. Isaak Harms
 
2615 S. S. State Of Nevada; Arrived New York, New York Isaak Harms
 
2616 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2617 His n.s. birth date was 3 Jan 1868. Johann L. Harms
 
2618 S. S. Austrian; arrived Quebec, Quebec Johann L. Harms
 
2619 "Church Book" p. 123: "Belongs to Schellenberg Gemeinde" Her n.s. birth date was 14 Jan 1868. Maria Harms
 
2620 S. S. Kenilworth; Arrived New York, New York Maria Harms
 
2621 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2622 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2623 His Zionsbote obituary says he was born in 1877. Peter Boyd Harms
 
2624 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2625 The Gaede book gives her birthplace as Hillsboro, KS. Ruth Mildred Harms
 
2626 She was married in 1945. Tina Cecilia Harms
 
2627 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2628 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2629 Debra graduated class of 1974, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University. -cw Debra Lee Harris
 
2630 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2631 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2632 Neal was a wheel alignment technician. Neal Harth
 
2633 BA degree in Christian education from Northwestern Bible College, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Merry Lynn Hazzard
 
2634 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2635 Not all sources list this marriage. David Hebebrand
 
2636 Had No Children. Her o.s. birth date was 10 Jul 1905. Wanda Heese
 
2637 Died Of Typhus Wilhelm Heese
 
2638 1976 Butterfield, MN Charles Heffele
 
2639 1976 Lake Benton, MN Gary Heffele
 
2640 1976 Fairmont, MN Judith Heffele
 
2641 1976 Hendricks, MN Loretta Heffele
 
2642 1976 Butterfield, MN Marjean Heffele
 
2643 1976 Maple Plains, MN Norma Heffele
 
2644 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2645 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2646 He was the elder from Breitenau. Christian Hege
 
2647 She lived in Breitenaun, Germany. One record says she died 27 Dec 1945. Frieda Hege
 
2648 Elder of Bergthal Church, Corn, OK. son of Jacob Hege and Magdalene Binkele. Henry Hege
 
2649 Washita County Enterprise - 6-16-2005: Luella H. Duerksen. Duerksen died on Thursday, June 9, 2005. Luella was born in Gossel, Kansas on August 23, 1922 to Reverend Henry and Susie Hege. The family moved to Redfield, South Dakota where Luella spent some of her youth. Later, there was a move to Gotebo, Oklahoma where Reverend Hege was the pastor of the Ebenezer Mennonite Church and Luella completed school through the 11th grade. While a young girl in Gotebo, she was baptized into the Mennonite Faith. The move of the family to Corn for her 12th grade year would complete her education and establish a life long relationship with her classmate and husband to be, Erwin Duerksen. Erwin and Luella were married on September 14, 1941. The couple made their home 5 miles northwest of Corn on a farm. Here the family grew with the birth of a son and two daughters. During this time, Luella was active in the Corn Home Improvement Club, worked as a class mother and parent chaperone on countless school trips. She also participated in the Red Cross Drives. Luella was active in the Bergthal Mennonite Church where her father was the pastor. She taught children's Sunday School, Bible School, sang in the choir and participated in many other church activities. She established many friends in this church that remained her friends until her death. In the late 1960's the family established their home in Corn where they continued their worship in the Corn Mennonite Brethren Church. Here again Luella taught Sunday School and participated in many church activities including the church catering committee. She always loved working with the small children. During these years, she worked as a Cafeteria Assistant in the Corn Public School system. She also traveled extensively with her husband to many business conferences in which he participated. Here she was known as the lady who "never met a stranger". Luella could, and did, strike up conversations with people she had never met before. In April of 1991 Erwin and Luella retired from farming. They continued to travel and participate in church activities. Luella's life was one of dedication to her church and to her family and friends. She was a kind and loving mother, a friend who could be counted upon, and a devoted wife. She is survived by her husband, Erwin R Duerksen of the home in Corn; a son Dr. Kenneth Duerksen of Austin, Texas; two daughters, Kathy Jackson and husband Kelly of Moore, Oklahoma, Karen Sawatzsky and husband Rodney of Clinton, Oklahoma; six grandchildren, Kent Duerksen, Katy Gerner and husband Jimmy, Amy Ealey and husband Kenny, Brian Jackson, Chloe and Cale Sawatzky, two great grandchildren, Brett and Avery Ealey, and two sisters, Donna Law and Marjorie Teer. Luella Harriet Hege
 
2650 Began as missionary to South America under Gospel Missionary Union 11 Sep 1930. Mary Margaret Heikes
 
2651 S. S. Lessing; Arrived New York, New York Carolina Hein
 
2652 The Suderman Book says she was born 1 Mar 1876 (n.s.). One source gives her birthdate as 18 Feb 1877. Carolina Hein
 
2653 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2654 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2655 SOURCE: Personal recollections and records of Pearl Epp McClain.

BIRTH: ABT 1892 North Dakota from son Julius's birth certificate.

DEATH: Not found in CA Death Index dating from 1940 so surmise he died before 1940, maybe late 1920's from kid's birth dates. 		Julius Edward Heinrich
 
2656 BIRTH: 17 Nov 1920 confirmed by death cert.

OCCUPATION: 1993; mailman.

DEATH: 16 Jan 1993. Kern Co. Hall of Records Book 250, Page 39. Confirmed per RootsWeb CA Death Index.

BURIAL: The San Joaquin US National Cemetary in Gustine, Merced Co. CA according to the personal recollections and records of Pearl Epp McClain & death cert. 		Kenneth Ivan Heinrich
 
2657 Abraham Heinrichs migrated from Prussia to Schardau, Molochna, Russia in the Spring of 1820. He then later migrated from South Russia to Henderson, Nebraska in 1874. One record says he died on 17 May. One record says he was born 18 Apr. Abraham Heinrichs
 
2658 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2659 Alexanderthal Abraham Johann Heinrichs
 
2660 His was one of sixteen founding families in Alexanderthal. They all came from Prussia with Elder Goertz' group from Rudnerweide. Mike Dirksen has added brothers Isaac and Peter to the children of Abraham and Eva who lived at Alexanderthal #10. Elisabeth Dirksen from #11 married Isaac about 1861 then, after his death, she married Peter in America after 1900. Locations and dates are supportive, but their first names seem unsuited. Perhaps the first wife had other sons named Abraham and Johann? Abraham Johann Heinrichs
 
2661 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2662 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2663 not listed in his mother's obit (MWR 5-6-1999) Aldon Gayle Heinrichs
 
2664 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2665 First Hillsboro 1885 p. 254: "Aufnahme: durch Attest v. d. Ohrloff G. S. R." Anna Heinrichs
 
2666 S. S. Switzerland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Anna Heinrichs
 
2667 She is the only daughter of Peter Heinrichs and Maria Siemens.

Her first husband was Cornelius Wedel. He died in 1885 at the age of 29.They had three children Peter ,Henry and Anna. See notes for Anna's other husband.

Then Anna married her father's brother Isaac's first son Isaac Jr. They had 5 children before Anna died only a month after Isaac III was born.

Then Isaac married Minnie Mattheis. 		Anna Heinrichs
 
2668 She must have died young as she had a younger sister by the same name. Anna Heinrichs
 
2669 The Dinuba records say she was born in Lehigh, Kansas. Anna received her education near her home at Emma Valley School near Canton, KS. She was baptized and became a member of Springfield Church. After their marriage, Anna and Henry lived in Kansas for a few years and then moved to California where they lived for 11 years. Anna's death was caused by a weakened
heart condition. 		Anna Heinrichs
 
2670 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2671 The Corn record says he was born in Goessel, KS. Arthur L. Heinrichs
 
2672 Is this the same person as #38404? Cornelius B. Heinrichs
 
2673 He died in an auto accident. Eldon Ray Heinrichs
 
2674 Her ns. birth date was 5 Apr 1918. Now in Hannover, Germany. Elisabeth Heinrichs
 
2675 She resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of her baptism. Elisabeth Heinrichs
 
2676 Tragheimerweide records, page 63: duplicate birth entry. One entry says she was born 1809, another in 1810! Elisabeth Heinrichs
 
2677 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2678 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2679 Germany Hans Heinrichs
 
2680 He resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of his baptism. This entry is strange, in that there are two younger Johanns in this same family. This one may have been strictly a "Hans", but that is highly unusual! Further clarification is needed. Could this be the same person as #55068? Hans Heinrichs
 
2681 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2682 He immigrated to the U. S. with his uncle Cornelius Duerksen (b. 21 Dec 1847) #33997). His surname is thus incorrectly given as Heinrichs on the Vaderland passenger list. The Silver Lake SD record says he was born 8 Jun 1866. Another record says he was born 8 Jun 1869. Heinrich J. Heinrichs
 
2683 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Heinrich J. Heinrichs
 
2684 Her n.s. birth date was 29 Dec 1905. Helena Heinrichs
 
2685 Baby Isaac lived to October 16, 1895 when he died of cramps, according to Logan county Clerk of Court, Napoleon, North Dakota. -cw
 		Isaac Heinrichs
 
2686 He immigrated to the U. S. with his uncle Cornelius Duerksen (b. 21 Dec 1847) #33997). His surname is thus incorrectly given as Dierksen on the Vaderland passenger list. Russell Duerksen's book "In Search of Freedom" incorrectly states that he came to the U. S. as a stowaway on a ship that arrived in Philadelphia in August 1876. The Silver Lake SD record says he was born 23 Aug 1863.

His wife Anna Hendricks (Heinrich) died a month after her new baby Isaac III died. Then Isaac Heinrich Jr's mother Elizabeth came to live with him and they tried to raise the children but could not.

3 step children Peter, Henry and Anna went to live with grandparents Peter and Mary Heinrichs in New Home ND.

Peter henry and Anna may have been Anna Hienrichs children from her marriage to Wedel, since her parents were Peter

Then Isaac Jr. married Minnie Mattheis. They had Nine children. 		Isaac Heinrichs
 
2687 It is said that Isaac was institutionalized and that when he recovered, the news that his sons had emigrated to America caused a relapse from which he did not recover. Isaac Heinrichs
 
2688 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Isaac Heinrichs
 
2689 He stayed behind when the rest of the family moved. Lived in town #1. Isaak Heinrichs
 
2690 Note from GM: He stayed behind when the rest of the family moved. Lived in town #1.

He was the youngest and so would have inherited the farm (#11 Alexanderthal). His first and last born, Willie and Hans emigrated to Germany. Probably under tragic circumstances. One or both of them may have been recorded in the EMZ records that show their Grandfather Kornelius Hienrichs born 1851, in Alexanderthal:
EWZ (Einwandererzentrale - German immigrants 1938 - 1945) Index for Miscellaneous Films 91 (E. Bischoff)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ50-C064 1324
Heinrichs, Kornelius 25 Mar 1851 Alexanderfeld A3342EWZ50-C064 2612
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Friedensfeld A3342EWZ50-C064 2940
File: 250,068 EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 148 (E. Bischoff)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ50-E072 0112
File: 339,528 EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 19 (E. Wise)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 25 Mar 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ58-H036 1782 		Isaak Heinrichs
 
2691 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2692 He disappeared, know one knows of his whereabouts. Jacob Heinrichs
 
2693 He disappeared, know one knows of his whereabouts. Jacob Heinrichs
 
2694 He must have died young as he had a younger brother by the same name. Jacob Heinrichs
 
2695 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2696 He resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of his baptism. In the 1835 census, he is listed at Schardau #19, and is said to have come to Russia in 1820. Jacob Johann Heinrichs
 
2697 Taken from Kasakstan into the forced-labor army (TRUD-armee) and starved to death. One child, died in infancy, no record. Jakob Heinrichs
 
2698 He is found with family #213 in the Schoensee Church Book Vol. 1.
Taken prisoner 26 June 1941, executed in Concetration Camp at Karganda. The family was banished to Caucasus region first and then to Kazakstan. 		Jakob J. Heinrichs
 
2699 At one time he lived in Prangenau, Molotschna Colony. Jakob Julius Heinrichs
 
2700 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2701 He immigrated to the U. S. with his uncle Cornelius Duerksen (b. 21 Dec 1847) #33997). His surname is thus incorrectly given as Heinrichs on the Vaderland passenger list. Johann Heinrichs
 
2702 Little is known of John Heinrichs and Anna Wall, it is believed that they may have settled somewhere in Canada. -cw Johann Heinrichs
 
2703 S. S. Vaderland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Johann Heinrichs
 
2704 See the note for older brother Hans. He resided in Montauerweide, Prussia at the time of his baptism.
He was 21 at the time of his marriage. 		Johann Heinrichs
 
2705 His n.s. birth date was 6 Mar 1907. Now in Hannover, Germany. Johann "Hans" Heinrichs
 
2706 Tragheimerweide records, page 255: died age 58.
Page 33: surname is Heinrich. I am not sure that both of the sons listed were brothers, but both said their father was a Johann, and both migrated at about the same time, so I am guessing that they were brothers. 		Johann "Hans" Heinrichs
 
2707 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2708 His first name is given incorrectly as Franz in the Alexanderwohl church records. He was residing in Prangenau in 1858 and 1862 per the Molotschna school registers. Tina Heinrichs writes: "When Julius was five years old, his parents emigrated to Russia, part of the way they went on foot, the rest by wheelbarrow." Julius Heinrichs
 
2709 S. S. Kenilworth; arrived New York, New York Julius Heinrichs
 
2710 Her n.s. birth date was 27 Jun 1847. One Gnadenau entry says she was born 1837. One family record says she died on 15 Feb. Katharina Heinrichs
 
2711 now in Nuernberg, Germany Katharina Heinrichs
 
2712 died of starvation Kolja Heinrichs
 
2713 He died of a heart attack. He had no children with his first wife. He had one son with his second wife, and six children with his third wife.
I have entered Helena Ratzlaff as his first wife, but only circumstances suggest it, not certain evidence. -md 		Kornelius Heinrichs
 
2714 Kathy Sperling wrote, "I'm looking at Kornelius Heinrichs #638794 who was born 1851 at Alexanderthal. He is most likely (from) the one (Heinrichs family) on your Alexanderthal map at (farm) #10. I am wondering if he would be the father or brother of the wife Maria Heinrichs of Heinrich Funk # 608115 (brother to Sarah Funk).
Heinrich Funk had a brother-in-law named K Heinrichs. He also lived at Friedensfeld, Kuban
Also since most of the Alexanderthal people are related-- Maybe they are related to Peter Heinrich--the husband of Elisabeth Duerksen #33999? There is also a Kornelius Heinrichs #106363 that could be the same person as #638794.
Maybe this information from the EWZ files I found online could help.
File: 257,069 EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 51 (E. Bischoff)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 20 Mar 1875 Alexandertal A3342EWZ50-C046 1158
EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 91 (E. Bischoff)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ50-C064 1324
Heinrichs, Kornelius 25 Mar 1851 Alexanderfeld A3342EWZ50-C064 2612
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Friedensfeld A3342EWZ50-C064 2940
File: 250,068 EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 148 (E. Bischoff)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ50-E072 0112
File: 339,528 EWZ Index for Miscellaneous Films 19 (E. Wise)
Heinrichs, Kornelius 25 Mar 1851 Alexandertal A3342EWZ58-H036 1782"
 		Kornelius Heinrichs
 
2715 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2716 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2717 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2718 One recored says she was born 28 Jan 1897. Louise Heinrichs
 
2719 Her o.s. birth date was 17 Mar 1898. Margaretha (Berg) Heinrichs
 
2720 S. S. Montclare; arrived St. John, New Brunswick Margaretha (Berg) Heinrichs
 
2721 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2722 She had a brother K. Heinrichs of Friedensfeld, Kuban. Maria Heinrichs
 
2723 Since there were several Johann Heinrichs' of Montauerweide, she could conceivably be the child of a different couple, since her mother's name was not given in her birth entry. Maria Heinrichs
 
2724 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2725 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2726 Busau says he was born 17 Aug 1915. Peter Heinrichs
 
2727 His old style birth date was 16 Oct. In addition to his own children, he and his wife raised a foster son, Johann Kasper, b. 1876.
Came to America at the age of 18. His grandfather Jacob Krause had come to America in 1874 and bought a place. Peter's father, Julius Heinrichs bought that farm and sold it to his son Peter who lived on the farm until he was old and had to retire. It was then willed to Peter's son also named Peter. Peter was a hard worker and delighted in farming, spending long hours until all the work was done.

In 1898 he was elected deacon of the Springfield Church which he served for 36 years. Peter died of hardening of the arteries.His funeral was held January 10, 1933 and he was buried in the Springfield Cemetery. He was described as a man of slender build, blue eyes and dark hair even to his death. According to the 1900 Kansas census, Peter and his family were living in Spring Valley Township, McPherson County, Kansas. 		Peter Heinrichs
 
2728 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2729 In the 1880 U. S. Census he is listed in Turner Co., Dakota Territory (later S. Dakota) as Peter "Henrys", b. Jan 1835. In the 1900 U. S. Census he is listed in Stutsman Co., N. Dakota as Peter "Hendricks". Peter Heinrichs
 
2730 S. S. Switzerland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Peter Heinrichs
 
2731 He was a minister. Resident of Bergfeld, Manitoba, Canada. Joined Bergthal Church in 1934. Peter P. Heinrichs
 
2732 Jerome Mark Adams b:Nov 18 1927 adopted Samuel J. Heinrichs
 
2733 She was the Child Evangelism missionary. Sara Heinrichs
 
2734 Tragheimerweide records, page 244: died age 23.
The difference in ages between Sara her next younger sibling suggests that Sara may not have been of this family but it's the only match, given the recorded data. 		Sara Heinrichs
 
2735 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2736 She was a registered nurse who lived in Wichita, Kansas. She never married. Tena Heinrichs
 
2737 Timothy died in a tractor accident at their home. Timothy Evan Heinrichs
 
2738 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2739 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2740 Germany Willie Heinrichs
 
2741 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2742 S. S. City of Richmond; arrived New York, New York Friederike "Ryka" Heitinger
 
2743 He had 11 children, 3 died in childhood. Ferdinand Heizelmann
 
2744 His parents are Peggy Ryan and Matthew Henry. John Dean Henry
 
2745 One record says she was born at Lynachding, North Dakota. I can find no such place. Mental hospital, North Battleford, Saskatchewan for many years. Susan Henshel
 
2746 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2747 Baptized at Salem Mennonite Bretheren Church, north west of Waldheim Buried at Woodlawn cemetery, Meadow Lake. Abe Heppner
 
2748 Three church records say she was born 18 Apr 1846, but 1901 Canada Census says she was born 6 Apr 1846. B44 and B142 say she was born 5 Apr 1847. In 1902 Agatha transferred her membership from the West Reserve Bergthal Church to the Rosenort Church (West Reserve Bergthal Church Register No.1, p.326) (Another source has marriage date as 16 Oct 1864 - West Reserve Bergthal Church Register No.1, p.54) Agatha Heppner
 
2749 Mountain Lake 1912 p. 21b gives a birth date of 15 Dec. Baptized by Jacob Stoesz. Bergthal says she was born in 1897. Anna D. Heppner
 
2750 Died in infancy Annie Heppner
 
2751 One record says he was born in 1918. Ben L. Heppner
 
2752 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2753 Elmer was born on the family farm in the Springfield District, Waldheim. Baptized at Petrofka Landing W. of Waldheim by Rev. Larry Nickel Elmer died while a resident of Lakeview Pioneer Lodge, Wakaw. Funeral services at Waldheim Salem Mennonite Church. Interment at Salem Cemetery. Elmer Henry Heppner
 
2754 Source name marriage page 300 Waldheim book Ethel "Linda" Heppner
 
2755 Brotherfield says she died 3 Nov 1935. Florence Heppner
 
2756 Source name page 233 Waldheim Book Also marriage George B. Heppner
 
2757 Source page 233 Waldheim Book Heinrich B. Heppner
 
2758 One record says she was born 13 Jun 1914. Helena Heppner
 
2759 Refer to source "Waldheim Remembers the Past" - pg 235 His birthday was in May. Jacob Heppner
 
2760 Refer to source "Waldheim Remembers the Past" - pg 233 Jacob B. Heppner
 
2761 RW 596 Refer to source "Waldheim Remembers the Past" - pg 239 Johann Heppner
 
2762 One record says she was born in Laird, SK on 31 May. Tiefengrund was a school district near Laird.
birthdate matches birth certificate 		Martha Heppner
 
2763 Refer to source "Waldheim Remembers the Past" - pg 234 Funeral sevices and interment at Salem Church and cemetery, Waldheim Dist. Mary E. Heppner
 
2764 She died at 13 months of age. Rachel Heppner
 
2765 Timothy was adopted and died in an automobile accident. Timothy Paul Heppner
 
2766 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2767 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2768 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2769 They had 12 children. "Aunt Susie said she didn't know how many children they would have had if they had not been careful!" -cw Abraham Hiebert
 
2770 With His Parents Abraham Hiebert
 
2771 She had two daughters and a son that was killed in Korea on 27 Feb 1951. Agatha Hiebert
 
2772 church affiliation - Tabor Menn Bernhard S. Hiebert
 
2773 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2774 Cornelius and George Hibert, Agatha's first two husbands, were brothers. One record says he was born 15 Feb 1917. Cornelius Hiebert
 
2775 One record says he was born 20 Nov 1889. President of Home State Bank, McPherson, KS. Cornelius H. Hiebert
 
2776 fletcher-genealogy.net shows Dan born 27 Jun 1895, Missoula, Montana. Also shows death on Oct 1973 in Kelso, not Vancouver, Washington. Dan Hiebert
 
2777 His n.s. birth date was 28 Dec 1868. SUV-055 says he was born 16 Dec 1868. David Hiebert
 
2778 Killed by a train. David Hiebert
 
2779 S. S. Sardinian; arrived Quebec, Quebec David Hiebert
 
2780 S. S. Switzerland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania David Hiebert
 
2781 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2782 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2783 Bill Ikerd says she was born 26 Aug 1926.
obit-She worked as a darkroom tech for Wichita Clinic. She was an accompanist for churches, quartets, trios, and revials in her area. 		Dorothy M. Hiebert
 
2784 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2785 They own Wolfsen farms and operate a large blueberry farm in McKinleyville, California. -cw Elaine Hiebert
 
2786 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2787 Her Christian Leader obituary says she was born near Newton, Kansas. Elizabeth Anna "Lizzie" Hiebert
 
2788 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2789 Merchant Seaman. -cw
 		Harlow Hiebert
 
2790 Killed in an automobile accident. Harriet Fern Hiebert
 
2791 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2792 S. S. Switzerland; Arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Heinrich M. Hiebert
 
2793 One record says she died in 1922. Helena Hiebert
 
2794 She was living in Boissevain, MB in 1986. Helena Hiebert
 
2795 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2796 Los Angeles, California Jacob H. Hiebert
 
2797 One record says he was born 12 Jan 1888. Jacob H. Hiebert
 
2798 First Hillsboro 1914 p. 257: "Br. Hiebert ist am Juni 1907 von Peter H. Schroeder in der Mennoniten Brueder Gemeinde getauft u. in die Tabor Gemeinde bei Goessel Kansas aufgenommen. Beide Geschwister wurden durch Attest von der Tabor Gemeinde am 28ten Apr. 1918 in unsre Gemeinde aufgenommen." Married by P. H. Richert. Jakob Hiebert
 
2799 Death Source: Advent Review and Sabbath Herald , page 14 Jun 1928D. Fletcher-online.com (fletcher-genealogy.net) also shows a 10th child Ed Hiebert, and that the family went to Montana by 1895. John Hiebert
 
2800 Died in an accident on May 16, 1936 in a gas well explosion and left this earthly home on May 20, 1936 to be forever with the Lord. He was married and they had 3 sons. Another place in C. N. Hiebert's work it says he died May 20, 1935.

John and his brother Nick owned the Hiebert Oil Company service station in Mountain Lake. The following story was printed in the Mountain Lake Centennial: "On May 17, 1936, an explosion and fire wrecked the Hiebert station. John was in the basement of the station and escaped through a window. He was badly burned and died soon after. The blast was followed by a fire which destroyed the station. The Windom fire department helped the local department contain the fire so it did not spread to the telephone building. Fortunately, the large underground storage tanks did not blow up. The company safe with all the papers was found intact in the basement." 		John M. Hiebert
 
2801 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2802 Another source has birthdate as 17 Mar 1865 (n.s., Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church Register [1893-1926]). This source also has baptism date as 1 Jul 1894. Hepburn M.B. Church record book #19 gives her birthplace as Heuboden, S. Russia. Her obituary gives birthdate as 17 March 1864. Katharina Hiebert
 
2803 S. S. Aller; arrived New York, New York Katharina Hiebert
 
2804 S. S. Sarmatian; arrived Quebec, Quebec Katharina Hiebert
 
2805 "No one ever gave more love than she gave." She worked as a secretary and sales clerk. (Lydia Netsch) Laura Marie Hiebert
 
2806 He drowned on the Alaska coast. Lawrence Hiebert
 
2807 S. S. Strassburg; arrived New York, New York Maria Hiebert
 
2808 One record says she was born 18 June, and died in 1947. Marie was born in India of a Missonary family. Marie Bertha Hiebert
 
2809 The ABE HIEBERT Family Story As Seen Through the Eyes of His youngest child, Marjorie Joan (Margi)

Submitted January, 1998My father, Abe Hiebert, born on June 14, 1904, in a sod house in North Dakota, was the 10th child born to Abraham Hiebert and Susan Wall Hiebert, with four of those ten children already deceased.

One of those was a baby boy named Abraham who died when he was only 11 days old. Apparently their father wanted a namesake, so the new baby boy, Abe, was named after his father and his brother also.

He was most likely named Abraham, although he was never called anything but Abe, and as there was no birth certificate he only knew his name to be Abe Hiebert. In later life he felt the need of a middle name so he gave himself the middle name, Oran.

Abraham and Susan Hiebert had a long and rich Mennonite history, but had converted to Seventh Day Adventism some years previously. I have been told that the first Sabbath keeper in this line was a Hiebert in Russia during the time of Peter the Great. So it appears that there was a history of interpreting the Bible along those lines.

Dad didn't talk much about his childhood or his family; in fact he wasn't much of a talker about anything. I didn't even think of any questions about his family until he was gone many years, so consequently, my information is sketchy.

On occasion, he would get talkative when we were husking large quantities of corn or some similar task and I loved to listen to him. At these times he would talk about Bible characters or tell some story from his childhood.

He recounted the length of the prayers in his childhood church. As a little boy he would sneak out the back door during prayers, go to the outhouse, play around outside and when he returned the same person would still be praying!

When he talked about his childhood, there was an amused, little boy quality about him, quite different from his usual somewhat somber demeanor. If only I had known how precious were his reminiscences, I would have listened more closely and asked questions to keep him talking. But as with most of us, our heritage is mostly lost by our own lack of perspective.

That boyish amusement was never more evident than when he told about being in some program where children were given recitations. Young Abe went up and recited apparently extemporaneously—"Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France, Kaiser Bill came down the hill with bullets in his pants." He said that the audience, which consisted of German-Russian immigrants, was deathly silent when he sat down!

He also told about being placed in school when he was four years old and recounted that he just sat there and did nothing or played around until about age 6 when he was ready to apply himself to school work. Though I have forgotten most of the details, I remember his amused affect, which I found delightful.

I do not remember him saying much about his parents. His father died in Minnesota on March 2, 1925 at the age of 61, when Abe was 20. I don't know the last time he saw his parents, but he certainly did not see his mother after he moved from California in 1928 when he was 24. Her children bad purchased a train ticket so she could visit her sons and their families in Virginia, but she died from a massive stroke shortly before the trip was to take place, to the great disappointment of her children and grandchildren, whom she had never seen. Abe's oldest child was eleven at the time of Grandma Susan's death, August 20, 1939.

My mother mentioned Grandma Susan a few times in rather negative terms and because I was so young I never questioned her or asked my dad about his mother. She told me that dad's mother ruined his stomach with her cooking/ she also said that Grandma Hiebert always wanted a grandchild named after her and that Jim would have been Susan Marie if he'd been a girl, but fortunately he was a boy and Grandma died before I was born so I didn't have to be named Susan Marie! Looking back, I do not know why Aunt Elizabeth's daughter, Susan Wedel wasn't sufficient.

Maybe it was because my dad was so quiet and rarely expressed his feelings, but it appears that my dad lacked closeness to his parents for whatever reason. Because he seldom talked about them and they both died before I was born. I learned very little about my Hiebert grandparents. The consequence is that I was given scant connection to my family tree, to my great loss.

Abe went to Hinsdale Academy in Hinsdale, Illinois. He was on his own financially by then, working his way through school and eating only one meal a day to keep expenses down. At the academy he met Rose Marie Holcomb, who he married on August 18, 1926 when he was 22 and she was almost 19.

One of my dad's greatest loves was music and singing. Unfortunately, he was tone deaf and was unaware of it. As a practical joke, his classmates at Hinsdale, set him up to sing a solo and at that embarrassing time he learned that he was a monotone. His girl friend Rose was a party to this or at least knew of it and didn't inform him. Abe was deeply humiliated and as well as hurt by her participation, and my mother indicated to me that this was almost unforgivable.

Nevertheless, in future years singing was a large part of their home. Mother played the piano a bit and she helped Dad find the notes. To him, one of the great delights of heaven would be the ability to sing beautifully.

Apparently his family lacked enthusiasm over Abe's marriage to Rose, which is understandable because Rose was so religiously fanatical and rigid that his family could never measure up to her standards. The Testimonies of Ellen White were as the air she breathed. There was nothing more important to her than what one ate, "health reform" was at the top of her list, but it didn't end there. "Sister White says,à‹¨› ruled their home, which was as encompassing as the voluminous writings of Mrs. White on every imaginable subject from photographs to bicycles to vinegar.

Nevertheless, my father, who never took his religion lightly, was, for some reason, drawn to her brand of religiosity and enabled it, as well as participated in it at some level, however, I never sensed the attitudes in him that she exhibited, nor do my siblings indicate it.

Abe had one year of college theology. Family members differ on when and where this took place. Some think it was at Emmanuel Missionary College at Berien Springs, Michigan before his marriage, another thinks it may have been at La Sierra College in southern California, and others favor Pacific Union College in northern California, the latter would have been after their marriage. Apparently this brush with theology qualified him to preach, as some of the siblings recollect.

After their marriage, they did move to California. If it wasn't for further education it may have been because Abe's family lived in California. Their first child, Avis Arlene was born at Loma Linda, California on April 21, 1928. Before she was six months old they moved to Virginia, possibly to work in Uncle John Hiebert's health food business.

Zada Louetta was born at the Adventist hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland, on February 23, 1930, 22 months after Avis was born.

It must have been some gene pool trick or the humor of God to place these two girls as close in age sisters. Avis, the happy go lucky, adventuresome child with ample ability for power and control/ and Zada, overly sensitive, easily manipulated and melancholy personality. Poor Zada was quite tormented by Avis who wielded her power to her own advantage. Nevertheless, that was a childhood thing and they are quite good friends now.

Ironically, the next two children, boys, had a similar situation, only reversed. Burl Warren was born July 16, 1931 and Abe Oran, Jr- was born March 3, 1933. Oran, as the family called him, was quick, bright, at least for a time larger than Burl and lorded his advantages over his older brother. Consequently, Zada and Burl, partners in suffering, got along excellently, and provided comfort for each other!

From "Sister White" Mother gleaned that children should never be given too much attention or they would have too high an opinion of themselves, therefore she informed her brother Ora that when he visited he was not to show the children any physical affection because they would think themselves too important. While Mother took her rule of life from Ellen White, this was likely influenced by popularly taught child psychology of the era, which theorized that children would be ruined by affection.

From most indications from my older siblings, they grew up not only in material poverty, but also some degree of poverty of spirit. They are also quite agreed that mother was the source of this deprivation, nevertheless at least some of my siblings remember a happy childhood as do I, and Mother was at the heart of our lives. It is easy to focus on her negatives, but she also had many positives and she gave us much of value as well.

When Burl was about a year and a half old, Zada three, and Avis five, the two girls fed Burl the poisonous Jimsonweed. The girls thought it Hilarious that he would eat something that tasted so terrible, and they would feed him more and more. Burl became seriously ill and had to have his stomach pumped. Jimsonweed is a hallucinatory poison and Burl has been plagued with the after effect of that all his life.

Sometime when Oran was a wee little guy, the children were playing outside under a tree during a storm and Oran was struck by lightening. He remembers being terrified and mother running out to pick him up.

In 1934 the family of six moved to Michigan, near Resets family. Dad worked for Battle Creek Foods a health food company, which made a cereal called Zoe, which was similar to Grape Nuts.

Avis recalls some of the houses, or more accurately shacks in which they lived. One was full of wasps, which they never eradicated completely. She remembers another shack in the woods with no finished walls, no plumbing of any kind, and of course no electricity.

The fifth child, James Lee was born in Battle Creek, Michigan on June 9, 1934.

Jim told of living near the airport and the pilots flying low in attempt to scare the cows in the field by their house. This was a dangerous game as Burl recalls that a plane knocked bricks off the chimney of their house! Jim, who remembers Mother talking about it, verified this.

A notable memory from Michigan is the boys were beating on a German Shepherd with sticks. Apparently the dog decided to teach them a lesson, it bit Jill, then Oran, and when unable to catch Burl, turned and bit Oran again. The bites were significant, because Oran was taken in an ambulance for medical treatment.

Burl recalls that Dad came home jubilant one day because The Depression had caused a downsizing but he had retained his job. Nevertheless, it was a temporary reprieve, because Battle Creek Foods later closed down, which was likely why the family returned to Virginia.

The family of seven moved back to Virginia with belongings piled in an old wood panel truck. Enough room was left so the children could lie on top of the goods. Burl remembers that it was quite a vehicle, it had to be cranked and there was no windshield wiper, which presented serious problems in rainstorms.

Avis recalls stopping at a store where only she went in and she was given her first ice cream cone! She questions whether or not she shared it, stating that she wasn't the most sacrificial big sister.

Back near Fredericksburg, Virginia the struggle to survive continued. These were hard years of share crop farming. During this time they moved from farm to farm, hoping for greener pastures, which failed to materialize. They raised peanuts, sweet potatoes and corn. At times there wasn't even adequate food, one winter all they had to eat was milk from their cow and dried corn. At least part of the time Dad worked at other jobs and brought in some money.

It was 1938 or 1939, still depression years, and Dad worked hard to provide for his family. He was paid $10.00 for breaking horses, however, one man refused to pay Dad for his work. Jim tells that Dad, desperate for the money to support his five children took the man down on a chopping block, holding an axe over his head and told him to pay up or he'd chop his head off! That is completely inconsistent with the man I remember, but I suppose desperation can create incongruities!

Jim recalls the family visiting people who owned a bull that had killed a man; they kept the dangerous animal penned in the middle of their field. Someone said, "Where's Jimmy?" when they noticed that he was missing. They found him in the pen petting the homicidal bull!

While Jimmy escaped harm then, he wasn't so spared when at six years of age he got behind a horse at a granary and blew a police whistle! He was kicked in the head and knocked out and to this day he carries a "horseshoe" on his head.

During these years the family lived near Uncle Martin, Aunt Auda, Wayne and Minon, as well as Uncle John, Aunt Mabel and their many children Aunt Auda was a teacher and she conducted a small church school some years for all the cousins in the area. The children played together and Burl and Wayne were best friends.

On one occasion, Wayne, whom Burl found quite persuasive, talked Burl into overcoming the effects of poison ivy by eating it! It was a lesson never to be forgotten!

On one of Wayne and Auda's visits the children walked across a log in a ravine unaware of a yellow jacket's nest in the log. Because Jim was the smallest and therefore the last child in line as they were running away, he v/as severely attacked and stung with over 100 stings.

During the warm months wells were sometimes used for refrigeration. A jar of cream had somehow fallen out of the bucket and was floating in the well, so Burl was lowered into the well to put the jar back in the bucket. When the bucket was raised, there in the bucket with the cream was a coral snake! Dad quickly disposed of it; he had no love for snakes.

My siblings recall that Dad and Uncle John, and sometimes Uncle Martin, argued religion constantly when visiting. Mother, who was horrified at any conflict, real or imagined, would not let them argue in the house, but would send them outside for their discussions. When the children would come near they would switch their arguments to German!

Uncle John was quite talented in his creation of "health foods" and was eventually bought out by Worthington Foods, for his recipes, which were used many years, and some still may be,

I was born on November Q, 1940, the setting was grim. The Great Depression may have been over but their depression continued. There were already five children going without necessities. My mother undoubtedly was already tired from extreme poverty, endless work, five children and now another baby! My father was likely overwhelmed and in constant anxiety with the pressure of trying to provide for his large family.

In my early teens my mother told me that I was such a blessing to the family, that they really needed a baby, but that assessment did not come with my arrival.

Burl remembers Dad leaving to get the doctor on an extremely dark night. It was a long and excruciatingly painful labor, but for whatever reason, no anesthesia was administered. Many years later, after Avis had her children, mother told Avis that because the birth was so painful she did not want anything to do with me.

Avis, who was 12 1/2, was relieved of working in the fields and other distasteful chores so that she could take care of the new baby. Although she did not know the reason, she was delighted.

Avis doesn't recall caring for me at night, so I assume my Dad did. My poor father! Engulfed with work and care, and now his sleep disturbed as he cared for the infants needs at night. I can picture him, holding me; his wife's back turned, and his compassion and love enveloping me. I wonder if that beginning is why I always felt so bonded in soul to him and limited in my identification with her.

I knew nothing of this infant rejection until Avis told me when I was in my mid-40s. She said that I was about a year old before Mother took full care of me. It was surprising that in spite of the lacks in our relationship, I ended up closer to her than my five siblings. There is some evidence that she may not have been overly nurturing with any of her children and that she was more tender toward me as a child because not only was I the baby, but also because life had become less harsh for her. Also, she had never given up on the level of "Sister White" tyranny that the older children had endured. This was probably some mellowing, and also that it simply had not worked with the older children, some of whom had rebelled quite extensively.

Dad's last farming venture (until he was nearly 60) was a chicken farm with a more financially secure Mr. Carter. Our family lived in the large Carter farmhouse and Avis recalls that though there was a bathroom in the house it didn't work well, so they had to use the outhouse. Mother was upset because she had to use the same outhouse as the Negro hired man! How differently people thought about race in those times!

On the Carter farm they built three large chicken houses and stocked them with chickens. What a crushing disappointment it must have been when disease wiped out this dream. Now, added to his already heavy family responsibilities was the debt incurred in this enterprise.

Burl recalls that Mr. Carter greatly favored Oran, which made it hard for Burl. Oran though younger, got all the privileges, even driving the tractor, but Burl, in Mr. Carter's estimation did everything wrong and he got all the blame. In addition, the younger Oran was now bigger and would beat Burl up as well as other boyish tormenting.

Nevertheless, Burl's view of his childhood is that it was generally happy. As a boy, he just worshipped Dad, thought he was the best looking and most wonderful man in the world, consequently. Burl did everything that he could with him. He got up early to do chores with him and skipped school to do farm work. While still on the farm Dad was teaching him to plow with a horse.

Burl also remembers that in some places they lived the children found wonderful antiques in the old buildings, muskets, sabers, and old buggies with nice leather upholstery, which he fears they damaged in their play.

After the chicken disaster Dad got a job painting at Quantico Marine Base and he earned $1.00 per hour! Burl remembers how proud he was of his Dad making more money than anyone they knew. Soon Dad even bought a two-year-old car.

From the farm life they soon moved to Takoma Park, Maryland, just two blocks from the huge Sligo Seventh Day Adventist church. Dad and a man named Mr. Albertson began a contract painting business, even mixing their own paint out of lead, linseed oil, and turpentine.

My memories from that era, when I was three and four, are, I had a "cupie" doll. I played with Mango seeds, combing their hair, pretending that they were dolls, and a Scarlet Fever epidemic, Jim was quarantined and they thought I was coming down with it also, so I was put in the same room with him. I did not have Scarlet Fever, nor did I become ill with that exposure.

Life seemed to be going better until Dad contacted lead poisoning. He became very sick and could not continue painting indefinitely.

Dad had always wanted to move west. Now with painting for his vocation impossible and feeling a need to get his teen-agers and children out of the city - especially Avis, who was getting a bit out of control - he began to plan a westward move.

First Mr. Albertson drove my mother, Zada, Burl Jim and me across the country. I was now four and I remember only a man driver, my mother and myself. My place to sleep was that large shelf in the 40's cars under the back window. My most clear memory is rolling off it onto the empty back seat, so that is probably why I don't remember the presence of my sibling, as they would have been out of the car when that happened.

Jim recollects that whenever he earned some money he bought Audubon prints for ten cents apiece. By the time they went west he had collected an entire set of over 116 prints. Because they were allowed to take almost nothing with them, he left his precious prints behind. Recently, he saw those same prints that he had collected as a ten year old child at an art gallery priced at $350.00 each!

In Oregon, we stayed a few months with mother's brother Evert Holcomb at Molalla until Dad arrived. Avis had determined not to move with the family, however, in the end she decided to come with Dad and Oran. Avis believes they went west via Michigan and attended Mother's Dad's funeral as she remembers seeing Grandpa Holcomb in his casket.

After they joined us, a newly constructed large chicken house in a woodsy setting near Estacada became our home. My delight was only dampened because Avis and Zada got the rooms with the chicken's nests. I Zada, however, was devastated, a young socially insecure teen-ager, those living conditions overwhelmed her with embarrassment. Mother obtained a job teaching in a small church school, and Dad worked in a nearby sawmill.

During this year I remember the boys built a wonderful tree house in the woods, but they would not allow me in it. Jim would chase me with those huge nasty slugs so prevalent in Western Oregon and Washington, and I would run screaming to Mother.

My first distinct memory of my father is at this time. Mother and I came home from school to find my Dad mopping the floor on his knees with one hand because he had had his thumb smashed off at ' the sawmill that day I

Because of the character of my father, when the women's liberationists of the l960's began their male - bashing, they struck no chord of response in me. This self-sacrificing man inoculated me from their venom! .

In 1945 we moved to College Place, Washington, where Dad was hired by Walla Walla College to work in their dairy processing plant, where, in contrast to his previous work record he remained for 18 years. He was soon made manager and the business prospered and expanded under his management, diligence, integrity, service and commitment to a superior product. All his products were high quality, but the College Dairy Cottage Cheese was superior to any in the market at that time, even bringing prizes in Washington State Dairy competitions. He was a perfectionist in his work and would cut no corners in making his cottage cheese, refusing to use preservatives, which the industry at that time generally used to ensure "freshness", but which made nasty tasting cottage cheese. Instead, his was kept fresh by simply making sure that what he marketed was actually fresh!

Mother found employment at the college cafeteria, and my brothers and sisters were enrolled in the nearby Adventist schools. At five I was the original latch key child! My Mother worked only half a dozen blocks from home and Dad worked across the large school playground and while I was allowed to visit their places of employment I spent much of my time sitting in my yard/ watching the children on the playground.

Sometime after I turned six in November, it was decided that since I could already read, I would be better off in school, rather than left without supervision. This decision, while providing a baby sitter for me, proved to be an educational disaster. It replaced my child like confidence with insecurity because, not only was I placed where I was among the youngest and most immature, I had the added disadvantage of beginning the year after the educational and social systems were in place. The unsuccessful patterns set in motion not only clouded my elementary years, but also gave me a lifelong distaste for school.

This setting in an Adventist college community provided the full measure of Adventism as a sub-culture. Not only did Dad and Mother work full time to provide us with exclusively Seventh Day Adventist schooling, there was family worship twice daily, regular Sabbath School and church attendance, Friday night vespers and camp meeting. All social life, entertainment, and recreation were provided by the church, of course, worldly entertainment, such as movies and dancing was forbidden, as was jewelry and make'-up. Our family was strictly vegetarian, but we also followed, Ellen Whitens health prescriptions so we consumed no vinegar, pepper, mustard, baking powder, and we felt guilty for eating eggs, milk and cheese! Dad even developed a Honey Vanilla ice cream to get around Ellen White's prohibition of the "milk and sugar" combination.

Because these years were mostly happy for me, I was reasonably content with my strict upbringing. Further, my world consisted of nothing that was not conservative Adventist so I knew nothing else.

During these years we were quite disconnected from the extended family, my parent's attitudes and actions conveyed the idea that family was not important, in fact the church was our family.

The one family member with whom we had contact was Dad's sister, Aunt Sally Goset, who lived in Kelso, Washington. Her husband died when she was 40 and pregnant with her second son, Frederick (Fritz). Because she was a widow in need, we visited her every summer and Dad helped her with repairs, house painting, and other jobs difficult for her.

But while I was a contented small child, big sister Avis was "kicking over the traces" and checking out on her own. She ran off to Chicago with Deforest (Dee) Lamson the summer of 1947, and they were married some time later. Although they were a bit shocking, they remained Seventh Day Adventists.

Oran disconnected himself from Adventism in his early teen years. He got himself in a little juvenile trouble, which while causing pain and embarrassment to our parents, created a fascinating bit of notoriety to me at eight years of age. He also spent his latter high school years at Walla Walla High School' rather than the Adventist academy.

My mother complained to my siblings that they had vied to give me attention when I was tiny, but when I got older they didn't pay any attention to me. But that was not how I viewed the situation. I adored my older brothers and sisters and considered myself privileged to have such a large, fun family. At Christmas and birthdays they gave me great toys, which they never had as children. Burl made me a wonderful doll high chair in shop class that I treasured.

The grueling hard years were over, and although we never had much, our world was in sharp contrast to the harsh poverty that was the life of my older siblings; consequently the world of my childhood was much friendlier. And while my parents continued to work hard, they enjoyed a comfort and security not previously known. They bought a house, remodeled it and lived decently.

Dad loved to garden and always had a large, beautiful vegetable garden, which was a showplace. His own property was never big enough, so they gardened on neighbor's property as well. He followed the organic gardening methods and the results were impressive. We canned and froze enough produce to eat all year.

My mother, though yet rigid and legalistic, relaxed considerably and did not make me miserable with her views. Somewhere in time, Dad replaced his useless legalism with a live, genuine Christianity, but he never shared the transformation of his inner life with his family. The reason I conclude that there was a change, is because although one cannot see the wind, it is possible to see what it does.

But some of the changes in my parents were over corrections. While they had been rigid and strict with the older children, they did little to restrict me. At age 16 when dating 19-year-old Duane Brown, we would come and go as we pleased. More than once as we left the house Duane said, "If you were my daughter, I would ask you where you are going and when you would return! "

In August 1956, Burl married Joann Scott, a girl he met at college. Their first child, Lonnie was born in July of 1957, while Burl was still in college. They have three children, Lonnie, Don, and Dixie, and five grandchildren.

Jim went to Alaska to work and at age 20, married 23 years old Bella Lauth, on January 26, 1956, a native Alaskan girl with Japanese, French, and Indian as her heritage and an interesting family history. They have four children, Duane/ Floyd, Susan, and Gerald (Jerry), and seven grandchildren.

My mother graduated from Walla Walla College in elementary education in 1958, the same year that I, her youngest, married.

Duane Brown and I were married on May 29, 1958 at the ages of 20 and 17 respectively. We have four children, Laurie, Barry, Bryan, and Andrew and have five grandchildren, but that is a presently growing number!

Zada married Malcolm MacGregor on February 22, 1961, a man with two sons. They had no children together. Malcolm passed away in 1993 and Zada remarried Age Stein on June 28, 1996.

Abe Oran married Bette Jones on April 25, 1963; they have two sons, Steven and David.

Avis and Dee had two girls, Janet and Julie. They divorced in 1989 and Avis remarried John Van Swearingen.

In 1963 Duane and I with my parents together bought a 30-acre farm near St. Helens, Oregon. The purchase price was accessible because it had been devastated by the hurricane level storm of October 1962.

At this time my father quit his rewarding and satisfying managerial job at the College Dairy and took a janitorial job at Portland Adventist Academy. Although he had always had the farming bug, he dreamed about having a farm, and shared our desire to raise our children in the country. I believe that the actual change of occupations from one that engendered respect and authority to a menial position that involved increased physical labor and a twenty-five mile drive to work was a difficult change at age 59.

My mother taught school in a nearby church school. We all worked the land, but I am sure it wasn't easy for them to work evenings and Sundays on the farm at a time in life that they were getting tired.

Duane worked nights in plywood mill and worked incredibly hard every day on the farm. Our third baby, Bryan, was born shortly before we moved to the farm, so all of our plates were extremely full. It was a hard time with the struggle to transform old pastureland full of perennial grasses into row crops with no capitol and minimal equipment. All of us had a full time job without the farm, but we all worked in the fields on our hands and knees, painstakingly removing the grass roots by hand.

My parents, nearing retirement age, were back to the survival mode. Living conditions, while having indoor plumbing, were far more primitive than their comfortable home in College Place. Although they made the life altering choice for reasons that they felt important, it doesn't mean that the choice was easy.

Our hard work enabled survival and in a few years we were ready to make money farming the tried and true way, selling off parcels of land! However, Dad did not benefit much from that.

In August of 1966 we had a family reunion to celebrate my parents 40th Wedding Anniversary. At that time I was expecting our fourth child.

That fall my mother took a teaching job in Portland and my parents purchased a mobile home and placed it on the property of Portland Adventist Academy so that they could be near their work, and they came to the farm on the week-ends.

My childbirth labor began on December 30, 1966. Shortly after I went to the hospital. Dad was admitted with a heart attack. It was a small town hospital and my small town doctor was on call so in addition to being my baby doctor, was also my father's heart doctor! In fact when I was on the delivery table, a nurse came in asking for medication saying, "Mr. Hiebert is in a lot of pain."

After the birth of our robust baby boy, Duane and I went to Dad's room and gave him a couple of names to choose between and he chose Andrew.

After his heart attack Dad lived only 2 1/2 months, never really recovering. The birth of Andy will always be tied to the death of his precious grandfather, whom he never got to know. Dad was only 62. He outlived his own dad only one year.

His autopsy revealed a long history of heart problems. His heart was full of scar tissue and his body had set up a whole alternate circulatory system. Dad had a great faith in Ellen White's health reform prescriptions and said that because he lived a healthy life-style he would live to be 110. Likely, he was in massive denial over the physical symptoms he undoubtedly experienced and might have lived longer had he sought medical intervention earlier.

Although Dad was quiet and unassuming he touched many lives as was evidenced by the unbelievable huge funeral where hundreds of people attended that we never realized noticed his presence.

At this writing it has been over 30 years since he passed from this life, but reviving his memory overwhelms my emotions. What a loss his early departure has been to his children and grandchildren.

Dad was an excellent father and grandfather; he was kind/ patient, industrious/ self-sacrificing, peace enhancing, and deep and had a quiet joy. I never questioned my position with him, I was always acceptable. He was never crude, course, inappropriate, vindictive, or cruel. But like any human, he had failings. What he lacked was expressiveness, affection, romanticism, enthusiasm, passion, and a zest for life. While being with him was comfortable, pleasant, and enjoyable, one couldn't say that he was fun. Nevertheless, his steadiness, commitment, and high character gave stability to my life that has been invaluable.

From the school year book where he worked the last years of his life was a tribute, which speaks poignantly about who Abe Hiebert was.

IN MEMORIAM

The- quiet, earnest face is gone, but the memory remains. Friends cannot forget the candid smile of the firm but gentle man who kept the household of our school. The halls are full of his atmosphere, and lives are blessed because he walked this way with us a little while.
God, who notes the need of rest, has given rest - a rest with such a promise that we who go on still at Portland Union Academy may look to the day when the smile will reappear, and we shall walk the shining hall of eternity together.

Mr. Cecil Roy 		Marjorie Joan Hiebert
 
2810 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2811 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2812 His old style birth date was 17 July. He and his wife were missionaries to India, the first missionaries of the U.S. Mennonite Brethren conference. Later, he was President of Tabor College. His first name is given as Peter on the ship passenger list in 1875, which is incorrect. Nicholas N. Hiebert
 
2813 S. S. State of Nevada; arrived New York, New York Nicholas N. Hiebert
 
2814 Leonard Hiebert and Clara (Mabel) Wedel Family By: Opal Lemmer August 10, 1997

Leonard was born in North Dakota and did not speak English until he was 8 years old and went to school. He told rather dramatic stories about hitching rides on freight trains. Before his marriage he worked in hospitals and once worked in a mental institution. He said if he had worked there much longer he would have been insane too.

Clara was born in Farmington, Washington. Her birth certificate reads "Mabel Wedel" but there are legal papers dated 1966 showing her name as Clara Mabel Hiebert. She married Leonard in 1930 when she was 15 years old. She and Leonard had 3 children; Opal born in 1932, Eugene in 1935, and Denis in 1945.

Leonard completed the 9th grade and Clara finished the 10th grade. Clara was extremely bright, learned to read when she was four years old, and spoke Spanish fluently.

They lived in Los Angeles after they were married. Leonard worked in a laundry. All his life he took great pride in how well he could wrap a package as a result of the laundry training. They moved to Napa County in 1934. Leonard had a series of jobs, mostly farm type jobs. The whole family worked in the fields picking tomatoes, grapes, peaches and prunes. At one point Leonard worked for the WPA. To escape that he began raising chickens.

Leonard and Clara's mother both died in 1939 so I do not know as much as I would like about either of them.

Susan Wedel was my maternal grandmother. When I was a child she lived in the Dry Creek area. I remember that she was appalled when the family became vegetarian. I remember the game warden coming to the place looking for an illegally killed deer. It was well hidden, he did not find it. Susan died of breast cancer and I remember her showing the cancerous breast to my mother. Peggy, my older cousin/ remembers being jealous because she held me on her lap and I recall her threatening to poke my brother Gene with a needle for some misbehavior.

Mostly, I remember feeling that she was the mean grandmother. She had a hard life, widowed with young children, always poor, but she treated my mother in an unforgivable manner. She favored the boys and had wanted another boy when my mother was born. This is .how it came about that my mother was called "Johnny" for many years. Johnny was made somewhat of a scapegoat in the family, her mother told her she was ugly, and she could not speak of many of the things that happened to her in that family for many years.

It was child abuse, plain and simple. My mother believed that it had not always been this way that something happened to her mother that forever changed her. Needless to say, my mother left that home as soon as she could and she said that her brother Ted and sister Kathryn had always been wonderful to her, sort of saved her from disaster.

My grandmother Susan Hiebert, on the other hand, was viewed by us children as the good grandmother. She lived in a very small house in St. Helena. At this time we were living near Yountville, between Napa and St. Helena and attended church in St. Helena and every Saturday after church we went to see her. Leonard was her youngest, and there was a close connection between the two of them. My mother loved her as well. In fact, it was my mother who was with her in the hospital the night she died. She had smallpox when young and was hard of hearing. At some point she lived with my parents for a time and my mother learned German in order to talk to her. My feeling has always been that she was greatly beloved by her children even though she did not see some of them for many years.

In 1942, Leonard and Clara bought 40 acres of land far up in the hills above Napa for $400. There was nothing on this land. It was two-thirds brush and a creek ran through it. Leonard built a house and many chicken coops on this property. At one point they had two thousand chickens.

Life was not easy in that place and in 1946 disease hit the chickens. Every morning Leonard would carry out dead chickens. It was the children's job to carry the dead chickens out to a spot where the buzzards would eat them. Eventually the buzzards could not keep up.

Leonard had to go to work in town. He had a number of jobs but eventually he got into the construction business which he did until he retired. He loved to build but he was always a farmer as well. His two sons worked with him. Eugene has built several houses and Denis now works remodeling old historic houses.

Leonard had a tendency to do things from scratch. He bought a well rig and drilled a well on the 40 acre farm, then sold the rig back to the man he bought it from* He bought a truck and chainsaw, went to his sister Betty's place in Trinity County and cut down logs, had them sawed up in the mill, and hauled them back to Napa to build chicken coops.

Shortly after the war ended John Hiebert, Leonard's oldest brother, came to visit and brought with him a message that the Seventh Day Adventists were doing things contrary to the writings of Ellen G. White and maybe the Bible as well. There was also a lot of talk about the ark having been found somewhere. John had left behind a wife and nine children, a fact that Eugene revealed to visitors one day.

The news caused quite a stir since some people did not feel a man should leave nine children and run around the country in a panel truck talking about the ark. He did go back home and at one time came back with his oldest son.

In some ways this visit was a disastrous event for the family. John persuaded Clara that Ellen G. White had declared that she ought to wear dresses nine inches from the floor. This probably does not sound like such a big deal now but in those days there was far less individualism in dress than today. There were no young men with long hair, only one skirt length, and certainly no one wearing a dress nine inches from the floor.

Not only did Clara wear it that day, she wore it for years, in fact she never again wore a skirt less than a foot below her knees. The nine-inch skirt caused members of the church to tell her she was becoming a laughingstock. It also caused her children to walk several paces behind her. It became somewhat of a catalyst for leaving the church. Years later Leonard said that that skirt certainly did teach him something about people.

People came to our house way up in the mountains and there were terrible arguments about doctrine. When it came to doctrine Leonard was always right and God was on his side. It was the beginning of an alienation from mainstream religion that persisted all their lives. They became involved with the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Church. This movement had started in Germany and there were many people with strong accents in the group. It was a very strict, demanding faith. Eventually they became somewhat separated from that group as well but all their lives they had friends and visitors who felt deeply about certain articles of faith. Perhaps as the result of this approach none of the children practice any religion.

But understand this. Leonard and Clara did not just preach religion, it permeated their lives. They practiced it every day. Helping others was an article of faith. At one time 3- elderly widowed neighbor was badly burned and was in the old folk's home. When Leonard and Clara visited the bandages stunk so badly that Leonard asked the doctor why they didn't change them. He replied, "Why bother, he's going to die anyway". Leonard took him home and twice every day, until the man died, changed those bandages. After the war they sent food to Europe. While their children were young they took in a homeless teen-ager. After their children were grown they took many trips to Guatemala in a pickup loaded with clothing for the poor. They eventually built a house there so Clara could work in a clinic. They took in many older women who were down on their luck. Clara nursed the ill and elderly. When Clara died a 90-year-old woman was living in the house and a homeless family with two small children was living in a camper the property. They were very, very good people.

There was one more amazing thing. Perhaps because the family had to work together to survive there was no limiting attitude toward women. When Opal began to take classes that other girls were not taking, physics, trigonometry, they were not particularly encouraging but they did not discourage her either. In fact, at one point in her life Clara went back to school. The school officials noted that she was very bright but did not have a high school diploma. In those days there was no such thing as an equivalency test but there were many returning veterans who had not quite finished high school but were granted a diploma. After some thought they did the same for Clara, an unprecedented action.

Eugene and Opal had somewhat sporadic schooling. Opal began school at eight and attended public school for a year, then went to a Seventh Day Adventist school in Napa. The next year Opal began public school but the family moved to the mountains where the school was a number of miles from their home. After that the schooling for the children was mostly at home through correspondence courses although they did attend school several months a years. By the time Denis was in school the family lived near town and he had a more conventional schooling.

In 1947 they left the chicken farm and bought property in the flat land about five miles from Napa. Here they became involved with an Adventist doctor who had a clinic in Guatemala. They made a number of trips there, eventually bought property and built a house. Clara worked in the clinic, delivering babies, pulling teeth, stitching people up but most of all, teaching people how to live. They lived there for four years until Leonard felt he could not endure the climate.

In 1966 they bought 3 acres of land near Sacramento. Leonard built a house on the property. They planted many grapes and fruit trees, had a large garden, raised a few chickens. They nearly always had some elderly lady who needed care living with them.

Somehow people in Africa learned about Clara's work in Guatemala and wrote asking for Bibles. This resulted in a large printing operation. They acquired an offset press and printed Bible lessons and pamphlets on this press. They founded a non-profit organization and various people helped them in this effort.

When Clara was about 65 a group in Nigeria paid for her and a friend to come there and visit. They went to Kenya as well. On the day of return departure Clara fell ill but boarded the plane anyway and that was the last thing she remembered until she woke up in an intensive care unit of a hospital near San Francisco Airport. It turned out she had cerebral Malaria and could have easily have died.

Leonard died from a massive heart attack in 1989. He said he wanted to work as hard as he could as long as he could and that is exactly what he did. He had purchased a burial plot in Lodi a week before his death. At the very end of the service a rooster crowed. Taps for a fanner.

Eight months before Clara's death Opal accompanied her to Guatemala along with two of Clara's younger friends. Clara was greeted as though she was Mother Theresa everywhere they went. She was 75 years old and weighed 97 pounds but she climbed those hills like a trooper. Clara died from a stroke during sleep in 1991. She was buried beside Leonard in Lodi.

MY LIFE and FAMILY

By Opal Hiebert Lemmer October 1997

When I was a junior in High School a Community College was established and for the first few years it shared space, time, and sometimes teachers with the High School. This allowed me to begin taking college courses and the following year to attend the college, which by then had its own, building. We were even able to ride the school buses. I took Math and Chemistry and a neighbor suggested that I apply to Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley for a job, which I did. I tested drugs and hospital solutions and I absolutely loved the job. This was during the McCarthy era and there was a tremendous amount of political discussion in my section. It was a very new atmosphere for me.

While at Napa College I met Robert Lemmer and we were married in 1953. Bob had attended the UC Berkeley and at that time was working at the University of California.

In 1954 our son Ronald was born and, when he was four days old, we moved to Palo Alto and Bob went to work for Stanford University. When Ronald was 9 months old I went to work as a Math Aid at Ames Research Center and worked for the Theoretical Aerodynamics Branch for almost a year. At that time Frieden calculators were used for computations. One department had a computer and we began to send some data there.

In 1956 Janice was born. By this time Gene was in Alaska and we had always wanted to go there. When Janice was three months old Bob accepted a job with the CAA (later the FAA) in Alaska and we moved to Oklahoma City while Bob went to training. A pattern was set by now, a new baby, a new move.

In the fall of that year we drove, first to Napa, and then to Anchorage, Alaska. This was before the days of disposable diapers and our first stop in Anchorage was at a laundromat. We slept in the open except for one night when we put up a tent. It was along hard trip. As soon as we entered Canada the road was unpaved. The dust was so bad you could not see to pass the car ahead of you. Bob had wrapped the gas tank with cardboard to keep the rocks from breaking it. We towed a trailer and our furniture was shipped. We did not own a lot in those days.

Housing was very scarce in Alaska. Interestingly, in spite of its scarcity there was no hesitancy in renting to families with children. This was true even if the apartment had only one bedroom. We lived in Alaska for nearly three years and we lived in eight places there but the first one was the absolute worst. It was a converted army barracks.

That's what they said. With my background it looked like two rows of chicken coops. At any rate there was one bedroom and no doors. No bathroom either. No refrigerator. These things were shared in a central location. The sound from neighbors came right through the walls and our neighbors fought. We did not stay there long but it sticks in my mind. While in Alaska we took a trip to see my brother Gene in Wrangell and later I took Ronald back to California for eye surgery. We were in Alaska when the vote on whether to become a state took place. We were registered voters and stood in a line two blocks long.

Our youngest daughter was born a month prematurely in late 1958. We decided to return to California, which, true to form, we did when Linda was less than three weeks old and weighed less than five pounds. It was a trip to remember. We had shipped our car by truck. It was loaded so that there was only space for the driver. Everything we owned was in that car bound for Seattle. We had sold everything else. The plane did not land in Seattle and the airline arranged for a bus to take Bob to Seattle while I was stuck in the Portland airport with the children. Eventually I got to Napa and Bob arrived with the car and found a house, which we moved into. It was the day of Christmas Eve and all the gifts were at the bottom of the stack.

All of the children were in Scouts and while they were growing up I worked with the Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts, was a scout leader of some kind for nine years. I liked doing this and in later life, when people worked for me, I used to say there was no finer management training.

Bob had a number of jobs and we lived in quite a few places. In the first 14 years of our marriage we lived in 22 houses and apartments. Eventually Bob went to work for the Wall Street Journal and worked for that company for 23 years. The most memorable place we lived was in Tamalpais Valley, near Mill Valley. For four years we lived in a large old house in the country on half an acre. There was a basement, and an unfinished upper floor. The main floor was big and included a big dining room, and a kitchen designed by the devil. It was a wonderful place for children and as adults they have all visited this house. In 1967 we moved to Cupertino. We chose the town because of the reputation of its schools.

Cupertino has a wonderful Community College, De Anza College, with an outstanding program for anyone who wants to become a programmer. In 1969 I started taking classes there. I took calculus over again since most of it had left the brain, learned Fortran, and several other programming languages. I loved programming but there where very few jobs in those days. I went to work at NASA/Ames Research through a work-study program while continuing to go to school. At the end of that program I thought that if I could get a job there I would never ask for anything else.

I did get a job and worked there until 1996. It was not easy as the kids were still home and I went to school at night for years. For a number of years I had the great good luck of working with researchers involved in the study of the effect of vortices on aircraft. I did a lot of work writing programs that divided the wings into small boxes and analyzed the strength of the vortices. When I travel I still like to sit in back of the wings and watch the flaps.

Eventually I had to quit having quite so much fun and do real work writing programs for test in wind tunnels and in 1981 I became the Group Leader of the Application programmers for the Large Scale Wind Tunnels. I could not have asked for a more rewarding career.

Our children all went to college and have done well. All of them started out at the community college. Ronald went to Chico and got a degree in accounting and works as a Management Information Systems Manager. Janice studied Business at San Jose State. For many years she ran a cleaning business. She has three sons. Linda got her Bachelors degree at Davis and a doctorate in Chemical Pharmacology at UCSF and currently works as a researcher for a company developing specialized inhalers. We are very fortunate to have six grandchildren all of whom live nearby.

Shortly before my mother died I went to Guatemala with her. We were met by her friends and taken to many of the places where she had worked and lived. As a result of that experience I have a connection with the people she knew and loved and I have been able to help some of them. I have been there twice since and the last time I went I met one of my mother's friends whom we had not seen when we were there together. When I walked into her house she instantly knew who I was and held me and sobbed. It was a moving experience.

I think I resemble my father more than my mother in many ways. I have his work ethic. "Keep going until you drop". Like him, I'm more than a little stubborn. But from my mother I have this intense love of gardening, almost an obsession. Like her, I do not have a neatly organized garden, just lots and lots of different kinds of flowers. Some days when I go out in my yard and see a particularly lovely flower my first instinct, even now, is to go in and pick up the phone and call her and describe it.

It was tough to grow up in my parent's home. The chaos of the changing religion, the very strict discipline, the isolation, and the hard work, being so different from our peers that we never had friends all made it difficult. Still, I can only hope that when I 'm gone I can continue to have as much influence on my children as my parents still have on me. 		Opal Hiebert
 
2815 Hutch News - 9-2-2003: HILLSBORO - Otto Hiebert, 87, died Aug. 31, 2003, at Parkside Homes, Hillsboro. He was born Jan. 17, 1916, in rural Hillsboro, the son of Peter P. and Margaret Claassen Hiebert. A lifetime resident of Hillsboro, he was a farmer. He was a lifelong member of Edenfeld M.B. Church and was involved with Gideons International. On July 7, 1946, he married Bernice Neufeld. She preceded him in death. Survivors include: two sons, Dean and Gordon, both of Hillsboro; a daughter, Faye Russel, Fullerton, Calif.; a brother, Louis, Hillsboro; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Christian Leader - October 2003: HIEBERT, OTTO, Hillsboro, KS, member of Ebenfeld Church, Hillsboro, was born January 17, 1916, to Peter P. and Margaret Claassen Hiebert in rural Hillsboro, and died Aug. 31, 2003, at the age of 87. On July 7, 1946, he was married to Bernice Eva Neufeld, who predeceased him. He is survived by two sons, Dean and wife Eileen, Gordon and wife Judy, all of Hillsboro; one daughter, Faye and husband Vince Ressel of Fullerton, CA; one brother, Louis and wife Bernice, Hillsboro; brother-in-law, Albert Neufeld of Reedley, CA; one sister-in-law, Luella and husband Willard Briscoe of Holiday, TX, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. 		Otto Hiebert
 
2816 Lived only one week. Peter Hiebert
 
2817 This family endured tragedies. Peter and Katherine's three young daughters, Alvina, Minnie and Annie all died during the diphtheria scourge within a few days of each other. Peter and father-in-law, David Toews, built one simple casket for the three girls in which they were buried together.
Three of their sons drowned in two different events. From Cliff Wall's "Remembering Our Heritage."

The following account submitted by, Margi Hiebert Brown. (Daughter of Abe Hiebert and Rose Holcomb)

Peter D. Hiebert and Katherine Toews moved to Irrigon, Oregon along the Columbia River near Umitilla. They owned and operated a large truck garden farm. Peter was known as the "Water Melon King". Margi remembers going with her parents to visit her Great Uncle and Aunt, Peter and Katherine Hiebert loading up a load of the most delicious watermelons and bringing them home to eat and sell.

Details of the family˙s losses are as follows. Peter and Katherine's three sons owned and operated a logging company and mill in Wrangell, Alaska. Sons, Winfred (Windy), Daniel and Lawrence all drowned off the Alaska Coast. Daniel and Windy drowned in the spring of 1951, when their boat capsized in heavy seas, off Vank Island, Alaska. There were 4 men in the boat and only one man made it to shore. Daniel, Windy and the other man were never found.

After the brother˙s death, Lawrence and Art continued the logging operation. On the morning of September 21, 1953, Lawrence picked up a Seattle businessman on Vank Island and brought him back to Wrangell. Lawrence called his wife, Francis, and told her that he would not be home for lunch. A storm was brewing and he was going to take the tugboat and secure a raft of logs, tow it across the bay while the tide was still high.

Around 4:00 P.M., Francis was sitting in her rocking chair darning a pair of socks, when suddenly she heard a voice say "Pray for Lawrence". A short while later she looked out over the bay and saw the tugboat going around in circles with the skiff floating upside down beside it.

Investigators believe that Lawrence, who was all alone, got in the tugboats skiff, which was tied to the tugboat and the high waves capsized the skiff, throwing Lawrence into the raging ocean. Lawrence˙s body was never recovered.

At this time/Francis age 38, was 6 months pregnant. Lawrence was 46 years of age. They had 3 daughters as follows:

1. Marlys Hiebert attending Walla College.

2. Vaughn Hiebert attending Upper Columbia Academy, Spangle/Wash.

3. Pauline Hiebert age 11, at home with parents.

The next day after the drowning, brother Art with Francis and young Pauline went to Washington to be with her daughters when they learned of the loss. However, someone from an Adventist community in Texas called Marlys at college and told her of her father˙s tragedy before her mother could get there.

Francis and Pauline stayed with my parents (Abe and Rose Hiebert) until they stabilized and found a place to live in at College Place. The baby was born two months after the father's accident, a boy, Lawrence Linden, and they called him Lindy.

Three years later Francis married Howard Venable, a 40-year-old bachelor who was an employee on Vank Island and who was on hand when Lawrence disappeared.

Daughter, Pauline died at age 30 after several years of unbelievable suffering with a horrible and debilitating disease of the Pituitary Gland in which surgery and medical treatment were unsuccessful.

Francis and Howard Venable now reside in Boise, Idaho. End of Quote. .

This final tragedy was thought to have brought on Peter's heart attack. He passed away at College Place, Washington on December 5, 1953. Katherine died in 1965 at Vancouver, Washington. 		Peter D. Hiebert
 
2818 The Toews cousins book says his name was John, p 22. Peter Heinrich Hiebert
 
2819 The Toews cousins book says his name was John, p 22. The Fletcher Genealogy (Fletcher-genealogy.net) also says he was John, but calls his wife Minnie Pullock. They had 9 children total. Cliff Wall's Remembering Our Heritage p 287, "Peter Hiebert and Peter Wall were cousins. Minnie Buller was a twin sister of Mary Buller Wall born June 3, 1843 in Warsaw, Poland. There are different recordings on the first name of Minnie Buller's husband. Some believe it was John, others say it was Peter. Anna Violet (Sproed) Erdman, daughter of Anna Wall (1873-1960) writes that Minnie was wed to Peter Wall's cousin, Peter Hiebert. Peter and Minnie had a bit of rough time. Pete was determined to have a son named after himself, same as his cousin, Peter Wall. Accordingly he named his first born son Peter; but the baby died shortly after birth. The next baby boy was also named Peter and he did not live past the first week. The third baby boy was named Abraham and he lived. So the next baby boy was again named Peter; and he was a sturdy, healthy little boy. So it was said of Pete Hiebert that he had to name one baby Abraham in order to get Peter to live." Peter John Heinrich Hiebert
 
2820 Pastor of the MB Church in Bakersfield, CA. Peter N. Hiebert
 
2821 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2822 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2823 She is buried in Saron Mennonite Cemetery. Sarah Hiebert
 
2824 One record says she was born 17 Aug 1912.
Newton Kansan - 12-3-2002: HILLSBORO -- Selma "Sally" Jost, 91, homemaker, died Monday (Dec. 2, 2002) at Hillsboro Community Medical Center Long Term Care Unit. She was born Aug. 17, 1911, to David and Mary (Littke) Hiebert in Lehigh. She married Jake J. Jost Dec. 1, 1935, in rural Hillsboro. He preceded her in death in 1992. She was a member of Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Survivors include: two sons, Kim Jost of Magnolia, Texas, and Jay Jost of Broomfield, Colo.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by two grandchildren, James Jost and Darrin Jost. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Hillsboro Memorial Chapel.

Hutch News - 12-3-2002: HILLSBORO - Selma "Sally" Jost, 91, died Dec. 2, 2002, at Hillsboro Community Medical Center, Long Term Care Unit, Hillsboro. She was born Aug. 17, 1911, at Lehigh, the daughter of David and Mary Littke Hiebert. A resident of Hillsboro, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. On Dec. 1, 1935, she married Jake J. Jost, in rural Hillsboro. He died in 1992. Survivors include: two sons, Kim, Magnolia, Texas, and Jay, Broomfield, Colo.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two grandchildren.

Christian Leader - January 2003: JOST, SELMA "SALLY" HIEBERT, Hillsboro, KS, a member of Hillsboro MB Church, was born Aug. 17, 1911 at Lehigh, KS, and died Dec. 2, 2002, at the age of 91. On Dec. 1, 1935, she was married to Jake Jost, who predeceased her. She is survived by two sons, Jay and Kim, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 		Selma "Sally" Hiebert
 
2825 Kotlyarevka, Memrik, South Russia Susanna Hiebert
 
2826 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2827 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2828 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2829 HN-84 Wilhelm Hiebert
 
2830 She drowned on the Alaska coast. Winfred "Windy" Hiebert
 
2831 Bethesda-Henderson Book II p. 416: baptized by Abraham W. Friesen. Bethesda-Henderson Book II p. 460: married by "I. J. Dick?".
obit-They made their home and farmed near Mt Lake until they retired and moved into Mt Lake in 1980. Cornie and Eleanor served as managers of the Care & Share Shop for several years. 		Cornelius G. "Cornie" Hiebner
 
2832 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2833 The family record says his given names are Peter Johann. Johann Hildebrand
 
2834 R105-1 Peter Hildebrand
 
2835 R98-3 Peter Hildebrand
 
2836 "...our father was quite a character from what I have been told. He was a great entertainer, arriving at Rosthern with his friend, Isaac P. Friesen, who later became a great evangelist, helping many people to obtain salvation. The two started a store in a limited way. One end of the table was used for measuring material, the other end for making wide noodles (Keelki). They received one bolt of red flannel or whatever, a month. Not much variety. He met mother through Henry W. Fischer, mother's brother. Uncle Henry took dad to grandparent's home on the farm, five miles west of Rosthern. Dad liked mom's rosy cheeks, and grandmother's good cooking. While going courting on his bike, someone shot a load of buckshot at dad's posterior. he couldn't sit for awhile.... The next move was Hague, where dad managed a store" (Harms, 1978, p. 40.

"Later dad had his own store, called a drug store, but it had a little of everything -- china, wallpaper, candy and patent medicines. Dad fitted glasses, pulled teeth, set bones, and even delivered babies when the doctor was away. He was also in demand as a vet, and I heard him ramble in delirium in 1918, when the Spanish influenza took him from us. He talked about Holstein cows. Mom told me what they were, and I'll never forget those black and white beasts" (Harms, 1978, p. 40).

"With very little formal training, dad (I am told) was always reading and studying. His English was fluent and he also attempted the French. Belgian farmers settled near Hague. They became good friends of dad, and helped him with his French....Dad also had a license to dispense drugs. He worked with Dr. Ulrich" (Harms, 1978, p. 40).

"In 1905 the band in Hague went to Regina to celebrate the birth of the province of Saskatchewan, formerly the North West Territories. Our dad played a trumpet. Mother and dad lived in a suite on top of the store. She was left behind with two small children. She slept with a revolver under her pillow. I asked her, 'Mother, would you really shoot a prowler?' She answered, 'No, but I'd shoot under the door.' Wild and wooly, eh?" (Harms, 1978, p. 40).

"Jacob and Helena had 24 grandchildren of which Robert (Hank's) is the oldest, and Judy (Wilf's) is the youngest" (Harms, 1978, p. 41).

John tells the story of when he and Warner Fischer "travelled from Hague to Rosthern with the hockey team. We stayed overnight with out grandparents. There was a little pot-bellied heater in our upstairs bedroom, and grandpa laid a wood fire for us. We didn't sleep much that night. This was too exciting for two boys, full of adventure. Warner had brought a bag of lemons to suck at the hockey game to quench his thirst, but I doubt any of them every got there. We put more wood on the fire and with the door open we sat by the fire sucking lemons" (speech to Fisher reunion, July 11, 1982). 		Jacob Henry Hildebrandt
 
2837 In 1993 Lived In Leamington, Ontario. Judy Hildebrandt
 
2838 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2839 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2840 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2841 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2842 She was 72 at the time of her death. She was survived by three grandchildren: Lynette, Clarice and Clayton, but her obituary does not indicate which of her children was the parent of these children. She was also survived by a sister Florence (Mrs. Albert Petersen). Loretta Hill
 
2843 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2844 S. S. Suevia; Arrived New York, New York Helena Hirsch
 
2845 Children's birth dates are as listed by Darlene Loewen. Some cannot be correct. -md. A letter dated Jan 1975 from Lydia Ardell Jeske Thiesen includes these remarks, "She was born in Tarraklee, in or near Romania, in 1887. Grandpa Jeske was born in 1882, in Kulm. Later he was in Furstanfelt, near Odessa. Their main crop was grapes, with which they made wine, their cash crop. Grandma often mentioned making wine soup. Grandma's family was Lutheran. The Adventism came through the Jeskes." Christine Hodel
 
2846 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2847 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2848 Pastor MB Church, Fresno, CA. Jacob D. Hofer
 
2849 drowned Michael Hofer
 
2850 "Peter Paul" One record says he was brn 13 Jan 1851. Paul Hofer
 
2851 Sam had only one daughter from each marriage. She died at 2 weeks of age. Samuel J. R. Hofer
 
2852 (translated from German by Alma Regier)

Sister/Mrs. Sahra/Sarah Wedel, born Hofer, opened her eyes to this world on 27 Mar, 1901, near Freeman SD. Soon thereafter she with her parents went to Beadle Co. on a farm, 6 miles north from Yale SD where she spent her childhood years and took her Elementary Schooling here. In her youth she was converted to the Lord and upon confession of her faith baptized on 4 Aug 1918 and joined the Bethel Congregation and remained true to this congregation till her death. On 28 Sep 1922 gave her hand in marriage to Heinrich Wedel. With this marriage she took on one child named Herbert as a stepchild. She did not always walk on roses, because different sicknesses in the family she had to take responsibilities which she patiently endured. She held ever fast in her (?circumstances) that she found herself in. They were married 18 years, 8 months and 12 days. The Lord blessed her with 8 children, Tobia, Palmer, Esther, Martha, Wesley, Verda, Mary Ann. Her age 40 yrs, 2 months and 18 days. The 6 Jun she was brought to the Huron Hospital and underwent an operation and was on the way to recovery. Soon she got worse. She endured much pain. The doctors did all they could to restore her young life but to no avail and she was given rest.(not quite correct) She went to sleep in the Lord on Sunday morning 9 o'clock, 45 min on 15 Jun. Those left to mourn her death, her deeply bereaved husband, her sickly mother and 9 children, 3 sisters: Mrs Ferd Hofer, Yale SD; Mrs Joseph Pullman, Blunt, SD; Miss Anna M Hofer, Yale SD; 2 brothers: John W Hofer, Huron SD; Zack Hofer, Yale SD; 3 (?)sisters in law: Mrs. John W Hofer, Mrs. Zack Hofer, Miss Maria Wedel, Marion SD and many friends and acquaintances. We feel she deserves her rest. ???? 		Sarah M. Hofer
 
2853 She had 6 sons and 2 daughters, 1 son died in infancy. Anna Hoffman
 
2854 Mountain Lake 1878 p. 21: baptized by Jacob Warkentin. One record says she was born 13 Jan 1841. Anna Hoge
 
2855 S. S. Silesia; arrived New York, New York Anna Hoge
 
2856 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2857 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2858 Cliff Wall has the name as Konoston. -md
 		Henry Honoston
 
2859 S. S. Strassburg; arrived New York, New York Agatha Hooge
 
2860 The Reedley records say that she was born 23 Sept. One source says she died 5 April. Agatha Hooge
 
2861 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2862 Obit - MB Herald - 9-27-1996: Emmanuel Horch passed away Mar. 10. He was born Dec. 21, 1912 to Edward and Katherine Horch in Winnipeg. At 13, he took an interest in music and learned to play the violin, winning the Junior Music Club Award at 18. He worked at grocery stores, then Paul Revere Life Insurance. He especially loved to teach violin lessons, continuing until he was 82. He taught over 1500 students. He also enjoyed travelling and spending time with his many friends. Predeceased by his wife Agatha in 1988 and 3 brothers, he is mourned by sons Victor of Boise, Idaho, Ron of Vancouver, Wash. and Ben of Fargo, N.D.; daughter Elfrieda Warkentin of Winnipeg; 7 grandchildren; 4 step-grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; 1 brother and 1 sister. The funeral was Mar. 16 at Elmwood MB Church, with Abe Klassen ministering. Emmanuel Horch
 
2863 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2864 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2865 His parents were Charles Cephas Hornsby and Mary Ann Clark. William Casper Hornsby
 
2866 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2867 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2868 He was the elder from Batzenhof, Germany. Johannes Hotel
 
2869 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2870 Note said lived 10 hours, and died in Oklahoma City, OK Raymond Kit Hoyt
 
2871 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2872 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2873 Death: SDA Pacific Union Recorder 20 Sep 1965. Review and Herald 2 Sep 1965. Her parents left Poland and came to Mordan, Manitoba, Canada in June of 1893 when Christina was 10 years old. Parents and 8 living shildren left Europe by way of the "underground" and were jailed briefly during their flight to North America. 1by son Orval 7/5/199. At the age of 17 she became an SDA. She had 5 sisters Christina Huget
 
2874 Ancetry.com has several links to him. William Adam Huget
Birth:
14 May 1858 in Kutenberg, Austria
Death:
29 Dec 1943 in Portland, Clackamas, Oregon, USA

1906 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta Record
Census & Voter Lists

Residence:
year in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

1920 United States Federal Census Record
Census & Voter Lists


Residence:
year in city, Multnomah, Oregon,
Arrival:
year

Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 Record
Birth, Marriage & Death

Death:
dd mm 1943 in Portland, Oregon,

1930 United States Federal Census Record
Census & Voter Lists

Last days in Baptist Home. Buried in Rose City Cemetery. 		William Adam Huget
 
2875 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2876 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2877 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2878 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2879 from Florence Vogt's book:

"Morgan died from choking on a toy. Lonnie and Kathy are planning to op en a home for people who need help in recovering from a loss." 		Morgan Phillip Dean Humes
 
2880 Daughter of Bruce Humfrey and Norma . Angel Humfrey
 
2881 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2882 Lived in Great Falls, Montana. John Lee Huston
 
2883 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2884 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2885 Anna Isaac was a teacher. -cw Anna Isaac
 
2886 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2887 Hutch News -
HALSTEAD - Carol E. Koehn, 66, died Dec. 11, 2007, at Halstead Health and Rehabilitation, Halstead.

She was born Aug. 16, 1941, in Durham, the daughter of David Alan and Opal Geneve Koehn Isaac. A resident of Halstead since 1967, she was a CNA at Halstead Hospital and Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She attended Grace Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, Halstead.

On Jan. 31, 1960, she married Vernon Dale Koehn at Rich Hill, Mo. He died April 17, 2004.

Survivors include: two daughters, Sherry Scharf, Halstead, and Annette Houchin, Terre Haute, Ind.; her mother; a brother, Jim Isaac, Butler, Mo.; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a brother, David Alan Issac.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Grace Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, Halstead, with ministers Kenneth Smith, Raleigh Koehn and Marlin Unruh presiding. Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Kaufman Funeral Home, Halstead, with the family present from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Burial will be in Halstead Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to Halstead Health and Rehabilitation in care of the funeral home.

Newton Kansan - PUBLISHED: Thursday, December 13, 2007
HALSTEAD - Carol E. Koehn, 66, passed away Tuesday (Dec. 11, 1007) at Halstead Health and Rehabilitation.
She was born Aug. 16, 1941, in Durham to David Alan and Opal Geneve (Koehn) Isaac. Her mother survives of Butler, Mo.
She married Vernon Dale Koehn on Jan. 31, 1960, at Rich Hill, Mo. He preceded her in death on April 17, 2004.
She was a Halstead resident since 1967. She was a CNA at Halstead Hospital and Halstead Health and Rehabilitation. She was a member of Grace Church of God in Christ Mennonite Church of Halstead.
Other survivors include two daughters, Sherry Scharff and husband, Mitch, of Halstead and Annette Houchin and husband, Bruce, of Terre Haute, Ind.; a brother, Jim Isaac, of Butler; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
She also was preceded in death by a brother, David Alan Isaac.
Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kaufman Funeral Home in Halstead, with family present from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Grace Church of God in Christ Mennonite Church with ministers Kenneth Smith, Raleigh Koehn and Marlin Unruh officiating.
Burial will be at Halstead Cemetery.
Memorial contributions can be made to Halstead Health and Rehabilitation in care of the funeral home. 		Carol Elizabeth Isaac
 
2888 Clarence had a daughter Clarice from a previous marriage. Clarence Abraham Isaac
 
2889 enrolled at Union college, Lincoln, Nebraska in 1891. He married Emilie and graduated in 1897 as an ordained Seventh Day Adventist minister and first preached in South Dakota. In 1904, the General Conference sent them to South Russia. The Russian Revolution of 1904-1905 began just after their arrival. Daughter Elrona died in Russia in 1906 and was a terrible tragedy for them.
In December of 1907, Daniel was elected President of the Southern Russian Conference which the government did not like. They were silenced and all thrown in jail with many other prisoners and were destined to banishment or execution. They finally escaped to safety in 1917 with a friendly farmer who hid them in sacks of grain while crossing the border out of Russia. They returned to America in April of 1921 and moved to California. They both spent their last days at Danube, California.
Daniel's younger brother was born in 1873 aboard the SS Hammonia en-route to America. He attended Union College, in Lincoln, Nebraska, then became an evangelist in South Dakota. He and his wife were sent to Germany as missionaries. Then was sent back to Walla Walla College, as teacher in the German Department. John was elected President of the Oklahoma Conference of Seventh Day Adventist. He then attended the Clinton Theological Seminary for 2 years. In 1922 he returned to Europe as President of the Polish Union Conference in Warsaw. After 9 years, he, wife. and 2 children returned to Shafter California where John died in 1956. -cw 		Daniel Isaac
 
2890 Married for 49 years. Had 2 sons and 1 daughter. Lived in the Hillsboro and Durham, Kansas area for 16 years. In 1957 moved to Butler, Missouri, where he was a farmer and a dairyman until retirement. David A. Isaac
 
2891 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2892 married Grace Hagelin and started work with the Seventh Day Adventist Conference in South Dakota as a teacher. The Conference promoted Frank to treasurer and then to principal at Elk Point, now the Plain View academy in South Dakota. The next promotion was to President of the Southwestern Junior College at Keene Texas. Next he was elected to President of Clinton Theological Seminary.
In 1923 he went to the Southeastern Union Conference for seven years. Another promotion in 1930 to the Lake Union Conference as secretary of the department of education. In 1937 the General Conference promoted him to President of the Kingsway College Oshawa Ontario, Canada.
Frank and Grace wanted to move back to the United States, so in 1939 Frank accepted a position as Chaplain of the sanitarium' in Boulder, Colorado and remained there for the next eleven years. My sister Bernice Lamberton was at Boulder Colorado taking her nursing RN training when Frank was the Chaplain there. His wife Grace was the Dean of Women in the nursing dorm where Bernice stayed. Frank and Grace retired at Arlington, California. Frank died in 1960 at the age of 80, wife Grace died in 1963. -cw 		Frank Isaac
 
2893 S. S. Hammonia; arrived New York, New York Katharina P. Isaac
 
2894 S. S. Hammonia; arrived New York, New York Maria P. Isaac
 
2895 The Silver Lake SD record says she was born 18 Nov 1862. Maria P. Isaac
 
2896 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2897 He may have married a second time to _____ Neufeld. He was from Friedenstein in the Crimea at the time of his immigration in 1873 per the diary of Tobias B. Unruh (#103897). One record says he was born 20 Apr 1837. He was (re)baptized 21 Sep 1879. His n.s. birthdate was 20 May 1837. Peter Isaac
 
2898 His old style birth date was 12 Nov 1812. One record says he died 28 Mar 1888. He was from Marienthal. Much of the information regarding this family is taken from a manuscript entitled: "Historical Record of my wife Margaretha Isaak" written by Johann F. Harms, and edited and distributed by J. Harold Moyer in 1999. The Hillendahl submission says he was born 11 Nov 1812 and died in 1888. Peter Isaac
 
2899 S. S. Hammonia; arrived New York, New York Peter Isaac
 
2900 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2901 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2902 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2903 Some records say he was born in 1894. Abraham H. Isaak
 
2904 Was the 7th of 11 children. Accepted Christ under preaching of Rev. John P. Siemens. Baptized at 12 years of age by Rev. B.J. Braun - Dinuba Mennonite Brethren Church. Met wife at Immanuel High School. Abraham Henry Isaak
 
2905 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2906 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2907 obit-brother Ed Korell and wife Gerry of Okla City OK survives. ?? Betty Ann Isaak
 
2908 His n.s. birth date was 30 May. One Reedley entry says he was born in 1897, as do the Isaac family records! One Reedley entry says he was born in 1898. Cornelius K. Isaak
 
2909 Login required for access to living persons. Living
 
2910 One Reedley entry says he was born in 1917. Harry Edward Isaak
 
2911 At one time he lived at Sparrau #7 in the Molotschna Colony and later lived in Tokultschak, Crimea. Heinrich Isaak
 
2912 Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia Heinrich Isaak
 
2913 He was one of those that escaped through Harbin, China. His two wives were sisters. Henry P. Isaak
 
2914 His n.s. birth date was 28 Dec 1916. One family record says he was born at New York, Ignatiewo, South Russia. Waldie Neufeld says he was born 15 Feb 1917. One record says he was born at Alexanderpol, Russia. He and his wife live at Abbotsford, British Columbia. John Cornelius Isaak
 
2915