Mennonite Archival Information Database

Coffin

CA CMBS NP193-01-1
Item
[18--]

Part of Johann and Anna Thiessen Photograph Collection

This photo is of an unidentified deceased person in an open coffin, with family behind, in Southern Russia.

Katharina Janzen's funeral

CA CMBS NP145-6-15
Item
1928

Part of Katie Funk Wiebe Photo Collection

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.

Unknown

Picture of funeral in Russia

CA CMBS NP117-01-27
Item
[18--?]

Part of Abram A. Kroeker Photograph Collection

This is a photo of the funeral of a woman that died in Russia, possibly A.A. Kroeker's grandmother, Helene nee (Klassen) b. 1814. This photograph is taken from file 41.

Unknown

Winter funeral

CA MHC PP-4-044-295.0
Item

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This is a photo shows a coffin on a sleigh being pulled by horses in the winter with a group gathered around for the funeral ceremony. [HR 257]

Mennonite funeral in Russia

CA MHC PP-4-044-736.0
Item
[between 1900-1919?]

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This is a photo of many Mennonite men, women, and children around a casket being drawn by two white horses. [HR 255]

Johann Heinrich Penner funeral family picture

CA MHC 714-1-2-1
Part
1905

Part of Martin Penner Photo Collection

This part show the photograph side: a Penner family funeral in 1905. Johann is lying on the bier with his widow Katharina Penner (Hamm) sitting beside. Back row (L to R): Kornelius Penner, Aron Penner, Jakob Penner, Heinrich Penner, Heinrich Heinrich Penner (father). Missing from the picture are his mother, Helena Penner (Funk), and his sisters, Margaretha and Maria, who predeceased him. Also missing is his sister Helena and brother Gerhard who chose to be absent, believing that a picture of himself was a graven image and constituted a sin.

Vitlina, A.V.

Grandmother Dycks sister Helene with her husband and dead baby

CA MHC PP-8 - Photo Col. 500-391.0
Item

Part of Koop Family fonds

Helene's daughtre's funeral.

Beerdigungsfeier bei den Mennoniten (Mennonite funeral practise)

CA MHC 062-7.0
Item
[between 1895 and 1914?]

Part of Canadian Mennonite Board Colonization Photo Collection

This is a photo of a funeral procession. The coffin is on a sled being pulled by a team of horses. There are two men standing on the runners of the sled. There is a large group of people standing between the sled and a building in the background. Everyone is dressed for cold weather.

Funeral of Johann Friesen

CA MHSBC 100-12-5-1988.001.028
Item
29 August 1914

Part of Gerhard I. Peters fonds

Johann J. Friesen lying in a casket, surrounded by (left to right) his adopted nephews Isaak and Jacob Friesen and son Franz, also niece, Margarete and daughter Njunja (Anna).