Clarence G. Knechtel^{[1, 2, 3]}

1903 - 1988  (85 years)

• Name	Clarence G. Knechtel
  Born	28 Feb 1903	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1911	Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1924	Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Farmer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-200252
  Died	9 Jul 1988	Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Buried	Mannheim Mennonite Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Person ID	I200252	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Jacob Toman Knechtel,   b. 6 Oct 1879, Mannheim, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 29 Nov 1962, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Jeannette R. "Nettie" Geiger,   b. 5 Nov 1879, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 14 Oct 1922  (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F6027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Goldie May Mueller,   b. 10 Sep 1905, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 May 1981, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)
  Married	10 Nov 1924	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Children	1. Rufus Calvan "PeeWee" Knechtel,   b. 11 Nov 1928,   d. 4 Oct 2015, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 86 years)
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F56571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  KNETCHEL- Clarence, At Cambridge Memorial Hospital on Saturday, July 9, 1988, Clarence Knetchel, in his 86th year. Loving husband of the late Goldie May Knetchel. Dearest father of Rufus and his wife Audrey Knetchel and Joe and his wife Barbara Knetchel, all of Ayr; loving grandfather of Barbara Gillespie and Pauline Mitchell, Steven and Terry Knetchel; six great-grandchildren; dear brother of Olivia Cober, Irene Tschumi and Myra Motherall, Richard and Joseph Knetchel; step-brother of Esther, Ruth and Ella and William, Jacob and Albert Knetchel. Predeceased by one step-sister, Agnes. Mr. Knetchel farmed and custom butchered at R.R. 2, Petersburg, until retiring when he moved to Ayr in 1968. The family will receive friends at the Westmount Funeral Chapel, 1001 Otawa St. S. (at Westmount Road), Kitchener, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today (Monday), where service will be held in the chapel on Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. Interment Mannheim cemetery, Rev. Robert Gates of United Brethren in Christ Church, New Dundee officiating.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2403] News - Unidentified Newspaper Obituary, Obituary of Irene Knechtel - Tschumi - 1994. [S2403] News - Unidentified Newspaper Obituary, Obituary of Jacob T. Knechtel. [S3108] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 020349-24. Clarence Knechtel, 21, occ. Farmer, b. Wilmot Twp, res. RR#2 Petersburg Wilmot Twp, son of Jacob Knechtel (b. Waterloo Co) & Jeanetta Geiger married Goldie May Miller, 19, b. Preston, res. Ayr, daughter of Jacob Miller (b. Waterloo Co) & Priscilla Wanner, Witn: Robert Wamsley & Wilhelmine Ringler both of Hespeler, 10 November 1924 in Kitchener [S346] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1911, Div. 11 Page 8. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153669631/clarence-knechtel.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 28 Feb 1903 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 10 Nov 1924 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 9 Jul 1988 - Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mannheim Mennonite Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth