Fonds PP - David H. Rempel fonds

David H. Rempel was born on 16 May 1869 in Michaelsburg, Fürstenland, in southern Russia, to Heinrich and Justina (Klassen) Rempel. He attended the Zentralschule and was one of the first six students from his community to take the teacher's exam. He became the teacher and principal of the Neu-Osterwick school. He was baptized by Aeltester Heinrich Epp of the Chortitza Mennonite Church in 1889. He was ordained as a minister in 1901. He married Sara Dyck on September 12, 1893. They had 10 children, six of whom survived childhood: Sara, Anna, David, Justina, Margareta, and Johann. The family also adopted Sara's nephew, Dietrich Jacob Dyck, who was orphaned during the revolution. David, Sara and their adult children immigrated to Canada in 1923. David and Sara settled on a farm at Hochfeld, Saskatchewan, near Hague, and joined the Rosenorter Gemeinde with which David served as a minister for churches in the Hague and Rosthern districts. Sara died in October 1930, and David was married to Helene (Wiens) Willms in 1932. She died in 1946, and David married Anna Giesbrecht on 17 October 1950, who then died in 1959. David spent his last years in the nursing home at the Rosthern Youth Farm and died on 28 January 1962.