Fonds PP - Helen Kornelsen fonds

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CA MHC PP

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Helen Kornelsen fonds

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  • 2000-2009 (Creation)

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4 cm of textual records

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(1920-2012)

Biographical history

Helen Kornelsen was born on 17 September 1920 in Alexanderthal, Molotschna, South Russia to Johann Kornelsen (1884-1974) and Katharina Janzen (1895-1956) and immigrated to Canada with her parents in 1930 settling in Watrous, Saskatchewan. From 1948-1986, she was a missionary to India with the Commission on Overseas Mission, General Conference Mennonite Church. After returning to Watrous, she was very active with genealogy and family history research. She did extensive research on one of the first Russian Mennonite missionaries to India, John F. and Susanna (Schowalter) Kroeker.

Helen Kornelsen died 15 May 2012 and is buried in Watrous, Saskatchewan.

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This fonds consists of correspondence and documents collected in the course of researching the life and history of missionary John F. Kroeker (1871-1932?) his wife, Susanna (Schowalter) Kroeker (1874- ) and their descendants. Correspondence includes exchanges with Mennonite archives and historians in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Newton, Kansas. There is also extensive correspondence with Jean Hege in France.

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Some German

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Related units of description

-Mennonite Heritage Archives: John F. and Susanna (Schowalter) Kroeker fonds (Volume 5431)
-Centre for Mennonite Brethren Stufies: Johann F. Kroeker fonds, Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies (Winnipeg)

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By Alf Redekopp, October 2009, Updated by Conrad Stoesz June 14, 2013.

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