1313 Treffer anzeigen

This photo is of Wiens standing behind a fence, wearing a blue dress with multi-coloured stripes and flowers.

This photo is of Wiens’ gravesite beneath a bottle tree in Yalve Sanga, surrounded by a white picket fence, with a soccer field in the background.

This photo is a detailed close-up of Ann’s headstone in Yalve Sanga, displaying her birth and death dates.

This photo is of the Greenfarm church choir standing outside a church building posing for a photo.

This photo is of the Schoenwiese Mennonite Church building. It is part of the Prominent Mennonite Buildings Calendar, 1995. (Filed with over sized photos). In 1995 the location would have been located in Zaporozhye.

This photo is of Nickolai Johann Peters and his wife Elizabeth Peters (nee Elizabeth Friesen) seated for a portrait with their two children Susanna Peters (right) and Margarita Peters (left). Nickolai is wearing a suit jacket and Elizabeth a dress and head covering.

This photo is of the legendary 700-year-old Chortitza oak tree on Chortitza island near Rosenthal where the Funks lived. The Mennonite settlers gathered for more than a hundred years under its flourishing branches to rejoice, remember, and restore spirits. The tree has since died.

This is a staff photo of 23 men dressed in business suits taken in front of office building of Central Wholesale in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the parent company of OK Economy grocery store chain. Jacob J. Funk is standing in the back row (tallest man). The owner of the business is Abram D. Schellenberg, standing third to the right of Jacob (with a mustache).

This is a photo of Jacob Funk in army medic attire with a group of people in front of a Russian field hospital kitchen of which he was manager. He is #6 in the photo and about 21 years old at the time.

Jacob Funk poses for a photo in his medic garb, sometime before he and Anna Janzen married in 1920.

This is a copy of a map showing the route taken by Jacob Funk during his month-long search for Anna’s family in 1921. Map of Mennonite colonies in South Russia by William Schroeder (scale: 1 inch = 50 miles).

This is a photo of Johann Jacob Funk and Susanna Nickolai Peters. They returned to Rosenthal to purchase a windmill in 1904. They are Katie Funk Wiebe's grandparents. In the portrait, Johann is sitting and Susanna is standing beside him. He is dressed in a formal suit and she in a formal dress with headgear.

This is a photo of the Franz and Katharina Janzen (nee Katharina Boldt) extended family in 1928 around the coffin of Katharina, who gave birth to 12 children. It was common practice to have a family picture taken at the funeral with the open casket of the departed loved one. The funeral banner announces: Wiedersehn! (We will see you again!). Katharina and Franz with their seven younger children were the ones Jacob Funk went looking for and found in 1921.

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.

This is a copy of the church family register page from the Chortitza Mennonite Church in Rosenthal (Chortitza) dated March 11, 1922, showing the ten children born to Johann and Susanna Funk (nee Susanna Peters). It is signed by Minister Peter Penner.