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Leo Driedger wearing baseball hat at age 10 sits in garden with 3 year old brother on left and 6 year old brother on right. Otto on right also wearing hat. Notice barn built 1905-6, windmill built 1935 and house built in 1905.

In 1917 Cornelius Driedger purchased a Model T Ford and so between 1917 and 1925? he designed a unique method to power the saw. Cornelius is Leo Driedger's father. Cornelius can be seen here leaning against his car.

Leo Driedger collected photos and stories for his M.A. thesis on old colony Mennonites published in 1956 at the University of Chicago. This photo shows benches with no leans, a pulpit in the front middle, flanked by benches with leans for Vorsaenger and ministers. Notice the overhead structure for men to hang their hats.

This reproduced photo was given to Leo Driedger by local historian Jacob E. Friesen in 1954.

Left to right : Peter Driedeger (1882), Abram Driedger (1887), Jacob Driedger (1889), Johan Driedger (1885). Information verified by Jacob Driedger November 20, 1965. All of them are Leo Driedger's uncles.

Leo Driedger completed his M.A. degree in Chicago in 1955. This photo was his graduation picture.

A friend of Cornelius Driedger, J.J. Ediger, living in Drake invites Cornelius with his new car "to fill her up with shorts and come to Drake... and to the Lake". Cornelius is studying at German-English Academy in Rosthern. Cornelius would become father to Leo Driedger in 1928.

Leo Driedger (white shirt, black trousers) is standing at the rear of the dairy barn amongst the Holstein dairy herd outside of Osler, Saskatchewan in 1938. Otto Driedger stands next to Leo with an unidentified friend next to him.

Photo of Leo Driedger at the home of John C. Friesen, Rosthern, Saskatchewan.

This house at Blumenfeld, Manitoba was owned by Johann and Katharina Martens, grandparents of Leo Driedger. Leo's father was born in this house in 1891. It may have been built around 1880.

Leo Driedger's father Cornelius died in 1939. In 1941, his mother, Maria Pauls Driedger, married Bernhard Buhler in Winkler, Manitoba. Bernhard moved to Osler, Saskatchewan to farm. The photo shows Bernhard Buhler and Maria Pauls Driedger Buhler.

Osler Mennonite Church was built in 1928, the same year Leo Driedger was born. Leo attended this church and was baptized there in 1946. This photo was taken between 1964 and 1967.

Leo Driedger (back row, second from right) was baptized at Osler Mennonite Church, in Osler, Saskatchewan by Aeltester John G. Rempel (front right) assisted by Rev. Jacob H. Pauls (front left).

After Leo Driedger completed 2 graduate degrees in 1957 he worked as executive director of the General Conference Mennonite Church Board of Christian Service. He was on mission to southern Ontario when he visited Niagara Falls.

This is a photo of Irvin and Donna Driedger (Lobe) who were volunteering with Mennonite Church USA in Gulfport, Mississippi during 1961-62. Irvin is a brother to Leo Driedger.