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Born: 15 April 1830, Chortitza, Chortitza, South Russia
Died: 16 April 1899, Gruenthal, East Reserve, Manitoba

Born: 25 February 1830, Pordenau, Molotschna, South Russia
Died: 29 March 1899, Hillsboro, Kansas

Born 28 November 1904 near Whitewater, Kansas. Parents John Regier and Emilie Wiebe.

Married Krelia E. McChesney in 1934. She died in 1936. One daughter: Marian Imogene, born 1936.

Married Luella Smith on 5 October 1945 in North Newton, Kansas. They had a son Elliott with Down syndrome.

Farmer and social worker.

He died 11 November 1990, Newton, Kansas.

Jakob Guenther, bookkeeper and teacher, was born 19 Sept 1897 in Sergejewka, Melitopol district, in Imperial Russia to Anton Guenther and Maria Sawatzky. He was baptized by Aeltester Heinrich Rempel on 25 May 1918 in the Orenburg settlement, and received into the community of the Deyevka (Djejewer) Mennonite Church. He married Margaretha Martens on 11 May 1919.

From 1937-1941 he worked as a bookkeeper in Chortitza. From 1941-1943 he was a teacher in Hochfeld, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He and his family fled the Soviet Union with the retreating German army in 1943. He was conscripted into the German military on 16 January 1945. From the end of the war until 19 February 1946, he was a Russian prisoner of war in Romania. He was separated from his family during the war. In August 1947 he immigrated to Canada. His family on the other hand had been forcefully repatriated to the Soviet Union. (Years later they immigrated to Germany) His wife died in 1981.

Jakob Guenther worked at various jobs in Canada to support himself. He retired in 1968. In 1985 he moved to the Menno Home in Abbotsford, where he lived until he passed away on 18 June 1998 at the age of 100.

Theodore E. Friesen was born in 1920 in Altona, Manitoba to David W. Friesen (1879-1951) and Sarah (Klippenstein) Friesen. Together with his brothers he continued the family printing business.

Throughout his career Friesen was an active member of many cultural, historical and religious organizations within the Mennonite community, serving on various boards, societies and committees.

During the 1950s and 1960s Friesen was active on the boards or committees of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada Board of Christian Service, the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society and the Canadian Mennonite Publishing Association. He was secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Mennonite Relief Committee at the time that it merged with several other Canadian Mennonite relief organizations and committees to form Mennonite Central Committee Canada in November, 1963. He was active with Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba and Mennonite Central Committee Canada from 1963 into the mid 1970s. He was also a member of Altona Mennonite Church since its founding in 1962.

Friesen was a businessman, amateur historian and collector of rare books.

Theodord (Ted E.) Friesen died Feb. 15, 2016 in Altona, Manitoba.