As told in 2008 by Jake Tiessen, born in 1922. In 1925 our family, consisting of my parents, half-brother Peter,half-sister Margaret Tiessen Gossen, Frank, Betty Tiessen Janzen, Nick, Agatha, Mary Tiessen Harder, Katharine, and I moved to the Duke farm. In the fall of 1927, my parents bought the farm I live on today from […]
Story of Michael Williamson
Michael Williamson was hired by the Leamington United Mennonite Church (LUMC) in 2011 to join our pastoral team which included four other pastors. Michael’s Early Life Michael lived in Cambridge, together with his parents Marlene Hamilton and Greg Williamson until he became a teenager. He was baptised in the Anglican Church as a baby and joined […]
Henry Derksen Story
Henry Derksen was born in 1925 in Newton Siding, Manitoba. My parents were Henry Derksen born in Blumstein, Molotschna Colony, Russia in 1896, and Mary Wiens, born in Schönfeld, Russia in 1900. My parents were married in 1923 and came to Manitoba, Canada in 1924. Shortly after my birth, my parents and I moved from Manitoba […]
