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A picture of Yarrow elementary school. This building was a large, four-room school along 2nd Avenue, and was occupied by the 210 students at the start of January, 1937.

This is most likely the first baptism of the Yarrow Mennonite Brethren church in Yarrow, BC.

Congregation standing in front of the first church building.

Fifteen men gathered outside under a tree.

Eighteen men standing along the side of a building.

Congregation standing in the choir loft in the front of the church. There are a lot of potted chrysanthemums decorating the stage.

Men and women gathered in an orchard.

Students and staff. Standing (left to right): Elizabeth (Dyck) Peters , Margaret (Warkentin) Dyck, Cornelius Funk, Mary (Unger) Loewen, Annie (Hamm) Geddert. Seated are Instructors: Walter Wiebe, Nikolai Siemens, G.H. Sukkau and H. Lenzmann.

The first group of students standing on the Yarrow M.B. Church steps. The first classroom of Elim Bible School was held in the lower level of of the Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church.

Two staff members standing in front of a house. Left to right : unknown, Peter Loewen.

Four staff members standing in front of the stairs of the school, Left to right : George Sukkau, Herman Lenzmann, Walter Wiebe,
Nikolai Siemens.

Students with teacher Peter Loewen standing in front of a house. The gentleman standing in the doorway is Mr. George Derksen in whose house the Bible classes were held. Teacher Peter Loewen is standing in the back. Second row (left to right): Tina (Epp) Dahl, Katharine (Dahl) Epp. Front row (left to right): Nettie (Esau) Wiebe, Justina (Derksen) Dahl, Sarah (Enns) Martens.

A group of nineteen students with four staff members. The four staff members on the far left are John A. Harder, George Sukkau. and on the far right are: C. C. Peters, Isaak Dyck. Students are back row (left to right): Jacob A Loewen, Peter Friesen, ? Stobbe, Alfred Hamm, Dave Braun, Abe Ewert. Third row (left to right): Henry J, Isaak, Rudy Goetz, Henry Warkentin. Second row (left to right): Helen (Toews) Wolfe, Melita (Krause) Peters, Nettie (Esau) Wiebe, Erna Voth. First row (left to right): Agnes (Isaak) Spenst, Louise (Riesen) Matties, Helen Reimer.

Six school graduates. Standing (left to right): Mary Isaak, John C. Janzen, Katie Ewert. Sitting (left to right): Elma Loewen, Lydia Martens, Helena Abrahams. The five female graduates are wearing light coloured suits and all have identical corsages pinned to their suits and the one male graduate is wearing a dark suit with a white boutonnière in his lapel.

A group of fifteen graduates and five instructors. Third row (left to right) : Mary Krause, Henry P. Neufeldt, Jake Wall, George Stobbe, Henry Mueller, Abe Sawatsky, unknown. Second row (left to right) : Gertrude Giesbrecht, Anne Peters, Lena Giesbrecht, Betty Wedel, unknown, Margaret Wiens, Susie Epp, Annie Fast. First row (sitting left to right) : Herman Lenzmann, George Sukkau, Cornelius C. Peters, Johann Toews, Jake Epp.