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June 16, 2015

Agnes Boldt Toews, born 1936 in Fernheim, Paraguay

My parents were John Henry Boldt, born in Memrick, Russia, and Elizabeth Funk born in Samara, Russia. Mom and Dad met and married in Paraguay. My siblings were Jake, Elizabeth, Helen, Anna, Johanna and a half sister Tina. Tina’s mother – our father’s first wife – and Tina’s three sisters died in the typhus epidemic. […]

Article by David Dyck / Filed Under: Stories Then / Tagged With: Agnes Boldt Toews, Paraguay

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