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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John Wells (son of Sandy Roy Wells and Nora Prange); died Bef 2010.

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    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-200670


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sandy Roy Wells died 2005.

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    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-200668

    Sandy — Nora Prange. Nora (daughter of William Prange and Gertrude Ellen Reist) was born 24 Jan 1935; died 21 Jul 2010, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Nora Prange was born 24 Jan 1935 (daughter of William Prange and Gertrude Ellen Reist); died 21 Jul 2010, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Nora Wells
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-200666

    Notes:

    PRANGE, Nora
    1935 - 2010

    Passed away on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at the Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, age 75 years. Formerly of Breslau, Nora resided in Kitchener for many years.

    She will be fondly remembered by her sisters-in-law Patricia Prange of Waterloo and Donna Prange of Kitchener. Will be sadly missed by nieces Karen Cressman (Lyle), Dawn Fulcher (Paul), Barbara Wells, Robyn Prange, Heidi Prange, Sandra Cook (Jeremy); nephews, Jim Wells (Lori), Randy Prange (Anne), William Prange (Jacki), David Wells (Deb), Scott Wells (Bonnie) and Clifford Hammell (Sarah).

    Nora will be lovingly remembered by her longtime best friend Ralph Beggs.

    Predeceased by her parents Gertrude (Reist) and William Prange; nephew John Wells; brothers Roy and Norman (Bud) Prange and a sister Marion Wells and her husband Roy.

    A special thank you to Paula Joyes and her staff from K-W Habilitation Services, to the Kinsmen Centre and also Betty Rhindress for her care and support.

    Nora's family will receive friends at the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King St. S., Waterloo on Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. At 2 p.m. a memorial service will take place in the chapel of the funeral home with Rev. Bruce Sweet officiating. A reception will follow in the Fireside Reception Room. Cremation has taken place and interment in Breslau Mennonite Cemetery. Condolences for the family and donations to the Kinsmen Centre may be arranged through the funeral home www.erbgood.com or 519-745-8445.

    Children:
    1. 1. John Wells died Bef 2010.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  William Prange was born 30 Nov 1905, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Henry Christian Casper Prange and Leah Kramp); died 26 Oct 1965, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-204617
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Notes:

    :William Prange William Prange, a lifelong resident of Breslau, died Tuesday at K-W Hospital after a lengthy illness. Mr. Prange, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Prange, was proprietor of Prange Plumbing in Breslau until 1960 and was associated ith Prange Pump Service until his retirement last year. He is survived by his wife, the former Gertrude Reist, whom he married at Kitchener in July, 1932; two sons, Roy of Breslau and Norman of RR 2, Waterloo; two daughers, Mrs. Roy (Marion) Wells of RR 2, Baden, and Nora, Breslau; two brothers, Harry, Preston, and Elmer Prong, Kitchener; two sisters, Mrs Elizabeth MacKenzie and Mrs. Laura Wagner, both of Kitchener, and eight grandchildren. The body is at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home where a service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday by Rev. A.A.Schweitzer of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Cressman cemetery, Breslau. Donations to the Ontario Heart Foundation will be accepted as expressions of sympathy.

    William — Gertrude Ellen Reist. Gertrude (daughter of Dr. Owen S. Reist and Mary Ellen Baer) was born 3 Jun 1913, , Ontario, Canada; died 1986; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 7.  Gertrude Ellen Reist was born 3 Jun 1913, , Ontario, Canada (daughter of Dr. Owen S. Reist and Mary Ellen Baer); died 1986; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Gertrude Ellen Prange
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-53511

    Children:
    1. Roy Howard Prange was born 20 Feb 1933; died 12 Apr 2007; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Marian Rose Prange was born 28 Dec 1933; died 15 Apr 2010, , Florida, USA; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Norman "Bud" Prange was born 24 Jan 1935, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Aug 1992, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. 3. Nora Prange was born 24 Jan 1935; died 21 Jul 2010, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Henry Christian Casper Prange was born 17 Dec 1864, Kossuth, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Christian Prange and Caroline Klan); died 17 May 1939, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93602P
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Occupation: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Notes:

    Henry Prange, 74, of Breslau, died at St. Mary's Hospital, Wednesday, May 17th after a week's illness. Deceased was horn at Kossuth on Dec. 17, 1864 and farmed near Breslau all his life. He was a member of the Shantz Station Lutheran church. Surviving are his widow, nee Leah Kramp, six sons, Sylvester and Harry of Breslau, Norman of Glen Morris, Arthur of Kitchener, Elmer of Mosborough and William of Preston, two daughters, Mrs. William McKenzie of Kitchener, Mrs. Charles Wagner of Breslau, one brother, John of Buffalo, N.Y., and 35 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held private on Saturday to the Cressman Mennonite church, with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
    The Waterloo Chronicle May 26 1939 pg 3

    Henry married Leah Kramp 4 May 1884, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Leah (daughter of Daniel Kramp and Nancy Reist) was born 29 Oct 1863, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 20 Jul 1940; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 13.  Leah Kramp was born 29 Oct 1863, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of Daniel Kramp and Nancy Reist); died 20 Jul 1940; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Leah Prange
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93603P
    • Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Servant
    • Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Children:
    1. Sylvester Prange was born 10 Aug 1884, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Dec 1953; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Melinda Prange was born 16 Apr 1886, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Jun 1886; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Ida Prange was born 12 Sep 1887, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Aug 1905; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Prange was born 28 Sep 1889, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Aug 1973, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Norman Pronge was born 10 Jan 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1962; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    6. Arthur Prange was born 13 Sep 1892, , Ontario, Canada; died 9 Apr 1958; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    7. Elmer Prong was born 18 Nov 1894, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    8. Laura Prange was born 2 May 1896, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Feb 1970; was buried , Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Shantz Station, Woolwich Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    9. Rosey F. Prange was born 3 Apr 1899, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 7 Oct 1916, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    10. John Henry "Harry" Prange was born 28 Oct 1900, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 20 Apr 1979, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 23 Apr 1979, Parklawn Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    11. Pearly Prange was born 23 Nov 1902, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    12. Mary Ann Prange was born 1 Jul 1904, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Jan 1905; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    13. 6. William Prange was born 30 Nov 1905, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Oct 1965, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    14. Beatrice May Prange was born 4 Jul 1909, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Dec 1909; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 14.  Dr. Owen S. ReistDr. Owen S. Reist was born 4 Feb 1866, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Deacon Peter Reist and Mary Shantz); died 21 Sep 1931; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Eby ID Number: 00090-5215
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Elected Office: 1906, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Reeve for Waterloo Township
    • Occupation: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    Owen Reist, "was born February 4th, 1866. He is married to Ellen, daughter of Samuel Bear. They reside at home with his father. Their family consists of one son named Levi Stanley."


    Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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    OWEN REIST, V.S., of Kossuth. was born in Woolwich in 1866. After passing through the public school of Kossuth he took his second-class teacher's certificate at the Galt Collegiate in 1886, afterward attending the Ontario Veterinary College, where he received the degree of V. S. in 1888, and has successfully practised his profession ever since. In 1892 he assumed his father's farm, later acquiring more farm property, in all nearly 300 acres. Mr. Reist held the position of Sanitary Inspector for Waterloo Township from 1891 to 1900, when he resigned to accept a seat in the township council, being elected reeve in 1906. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1902 and reappointed in 1905. He has held the office of school trustee and is recording steward for the Zion circuit of the Methodist Church.

    Chronicle-Telegraph Newspaper, 100 Years of Progress in Waterloo County Canada Semi-Centennial Souvenir 1856-1906 (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Chronicle-Telegraph Newspaper, 1906) pg 32

    Owen married Mary Ellen Baer 19 Nov 1890, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Samuel Baer and Hannah Snyder) was born 18 Jun 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 14 Jan 1939, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  4. 15.  Mary Ellen Baer was born 18 Jun 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of Samuel Baer and Hannah Snyder); died 14 Jan 1939, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Ellen Bear
    • Name: Mary Ellen Reist
    • Eby ID Number: 00003-604.7
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    Mrs. O. Reist \endash Kossuth \endash Well attended funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Zion United Church for Mary Ellen Baer, widow of the late Dr. Owen Reist, who died in Hamilton on Saturday. In her 70th year, the late Mrs. Reist lived for many years on the farm in Kossuth. Services were held at the H.K. Stager Funeral Parlors, Preston, and Zion United church, conducted by the Rev. Douglas Gordon, pastor of the church and Rev. Oscar Burkholder, pastor of Cressman Church, Breslau. Interment was in the Zion Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman Markle, Levi Bowman, Aaron Baer, Bailey Springer, all of Kossuth, and Lawrence Snyder and Norman Reist of Hespeler.

    The Waterloo Chronicle Jan 17 1939 pg 3

    Children:
    1. Levi Stanley Reist was born 11 Oct 1891, , Ontario, Canada; died 9 Apr 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Owen C. Reist was born 2 Jun 1895, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. Dr. Claude Owen Reist was born 12 Jun 1895, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 Jan 1936, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 31 Jan 1936, Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Peter Verne Reist was born 16 Feb 1899, , Ontario, Canada; died 1956; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. 7. Gertrude Ellen Reist was born 3 Jun 1913, , Ontario, Canada; died 1986; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.


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