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This is a photo of the Funk family on the way to the Laird Mennonite Brethren Church. Dad took the picture of us in front of
the Eigenheim Mennonite Church (ca. 1940). Left to right: Jakie, Katie, Anna with her Sunday hat, Frieda, Annie, and Susie.

This is a photo of the shack by the railway line in Laird, Saskatchewan, which Jacob and Anna Funk bought for their family. That’s me (Katie Funk Wiebe) in Anna’s arms. I was also born in this shack. My two older sisters, Elfrieda and Anne, are also pictured. It is spring 1925.

This is a photo of the Laird Mennonite Brethren Church, across the river from Blaine Lake.

This is a photo of Abram D. Schellenberg’s general store in Laird, Saskatchewan, 1924. Standing on the porch in front of store, left to right: Katie Funk Wiebe's father, Jake Funk; John B. Fischer; Abram’s son, Abe A. Schellenberg (later Shelly); Jake Funk’s sister and Katie's aunt, Liese Funk; and Jake Funk's brother and Katie's uncle, John Funk.