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Mennonite bishop, teacher, farmer and author

Joseph C. Fretz was the son of Manasseh Fretz and Mary Ann Cober. He was a member of the Shantz Mennonite Church, where he was ordained deacon in 1953. He served for many years as secretary of the Ontario Mennonite Mission Board, Mennonite Conference of Ontario historian, and manager of the Golden Rule Bookstore. He married Martha Reesor in 1918; they had four children.

Christian Lehman Hoover. Deacon who served in the Wideman and Almira churches and Fraktur artist.

Samuel Lehman Hoover, produced a smaller number of hand-drawn records in the 1959-1960 period.

conscientious objector, cabinet maker, pastor

Aeltester, Vineland United Mennonite Church, 1931-1944

Prominent Waterloo County cabinet maker and fraktur artist.

Born in Wilmot Township; farmed in East Zorra-Tavistock. Was a conscientious objector in Alternative Service at Montreal River, August 6-December 6, 1941.

Roy Snyder (1915-2015) was born to Old Order Mennonite parents, Edwin and Leah Gingrich Snyder, and grew up on a farm halfway between Waterloo and Conestoga at the crossroads of Country Squire Road and Northfield Drive. When he was eleven years old, the family left the Old Order and joined the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church. In 1944, he married Clara Weber (1919-2005). Following their marriage, he transferred his membership to Erb Street Mennonite Church. During World War II he did farm work as part of the Alternative Service program.

Snyder began working in the artificial insemination field in 1946 with the Waterloo Holstein Breeders Association, later called the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association. This was the first organization in the world to use 100% frozen semen, which allowed for the export of semen anywhere in the world. In 1974, he became one of the founders of Semen Exports Canada, later called Semex Alliance. Roy Snyder died 11 February 2015.

archivist, author, war resistor

pastor, author, spiritual director