Anna Janzen met Jacob Funk while working at Bethania Hospital located near the Dnieper River in the Chortitza Colony between the settlements of Einlage and Kronsweide. This photograph was taken shortly before she married Jacob J. Funk in 1920. Anna is standing for this portrait wearing a formal dress.
This is a photo of Anna Funk's sister, Ageneta Block (nee Ageneta Janzen) taken in Moscow near the end of her life in the 1990s. Katie Funk Wiebe wrote a book describing Ageneta's life called A STRONG FRAILTY (Center for MB Studies, Hillsboro, 2014). Ageneta was Katie's aunt, the sister of her mother Anna Funk (nee Anna Janzen).
This is a photo of two of Anna Funk’s sisters, Gertrude (Truda) Janzen Koop (left) and Marichen Janzen Froese. These are then Katie Funk Wiebe's aunts. Truda visited Anna Funk (nee Anna Janzen) in Canada in 1978. Photograph taken in Germany (1990), where they and many other German-speaking Mennonites from the Soviet Union managed to immigrate as repatriated citizens of Germany (Umsiedler) during the 1970s and 1980s.
This is a photo of the Bethania Hospital for the mentally ill, located near the Dnieper River in the Chortitza Colony between the settlements of Einlage and Kronsweide.