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Portrait of Katie Funk Wiebe.

Portrait of Katie Funk Wiebe, also likely from the early 1980s.

Portrait of Katie Funk Wiebe, also likely from the early 1980s.

Portrait of Katie Funk Wiebe, likely from the late 1980s. This is the image used for the KFW entry in GAMEO. Katie Funk Wiebe (1924-2016) Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 2018.

Portrait of Katie Funk Wiebe.

This photo is of two unidentified CO (conscientious objector) workers sawing logs with dead snags (burnt trees) in background. There is a light layer of snow in the background.

This photo is of 2 men standing outside the Herbert MB church building. From left to right include J.M. Neufeld, A.H. Kroeker.

This is a copy of Anna Funk's certificate of service with the American Mennonite Relief Administration in Rosenthal (Chortitza). She is designated as "Hochfrau" (i.e., woman in charge) of the relief kitchen. The text is written in German and in Russian, stamped, signed, and dated May 4, 1922.

This is a portrait of Anna Janzen taken about the time of her marriage to Jacob Funk.

This is a photo of Anna Funk (nee Anna Janzen) in her later years [1993?] at her apartment in Edmonton. In 1921, during the famine, her wedding ring was sold for food. She never again wore one, saying she didn’t need a ring to hold her marriage together. Notice the samovar behind her, carried from Russia to Canada in 1923 in a tin cradle.

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.

This is a photo of the Blaine Lake Russian Baptist Church in the country, seven miles out of town.