Lavina "Vine" Kropf^[1]

1882 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Lavina "Vine" Kropf
  Born	28 Sep 1882	Baden, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Lavina "Vine" Gerrard
  Name	Vine Kropf
  Residence	1891	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1916	Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada   [2]
  	nurse
  Eby ID Number	00059-3945.5
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I3270	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Jonathan C. Kropf,   b. 5 Dec 1844, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Nov 1908, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Matilda Hostetler,   b. 23 Sep 1854, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Mar 1890, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 35 years)
  Married	1 Feb 1876	New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Family ID	F318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lieutenant Henry Rothwell Gerrard,   b. 1883, Of, St. Thomas, Elgin Co., Ontario ,   d. 27 Oct 1933, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 50 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F38083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Miss Lavina Kropf, daughter of the late Jonathan Kropf, of this town, has been accepted as a nurse in the Saskatchewan hospital unit for overseas service. They recently left Saskatoon for the old country. There were seven hundred applications and twenty seven were chosen, of which Miss Kropf is one. She took her training in the Guelph General Hospital and a post graduate course in a hospital in New York City. For the past few years she had charge of a ward in the General Hospital in Regina. Messrs. Herbert and Jacob Kropf, of this town, are her brothers. New Hamburg Independent, May 12, 1916 ____________________ Did you know that a Wilmot Township woman contributed to the history on the Women in Canadian History timeline? Ms. Lavina Kropf enlisted in March 1916 as a Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister. Lavina (or "Vine" as she was known as) was born in Baden, Ontario, on September 28, 1882. She was educated in Wilmot Township, followed by nursing training at Guelph General Hospital, and then relocated to a post-graduate hospital in New York City. In March of 1916, at the age of 34, Lavina was one of twenty-seven nurses selected for the Saskatchewan hospital overseas unit. Lavina served at Helena Hospital in Shorncliffe, England as well as different field hospitals in France. She also followed the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions to Bonn, Germany. After the war, Vine returned to Canada and worked as a nurse at Christie Street Veteran's Hospital in Toronto. Lavina died April 10, 1977, at the age of 95. Castle Kilbride

  
  

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  [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 825. [S289] Military - Soldiers of the First World War, Attestation paper Lavina Kropf. [S133] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1901, Wilmot H-1 Page 1. [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. Louina Kropf Born: 28 Sep 1882 County: Waterloo Father: Jonathan Kropf Mother: Mathilda Hostetler Kropf [S939] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1891, Div. 1 Page 20. [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 011016-76. Jonathan Kropf, 31, occ. Carpenter, b. Wilmot, res. Wilmot, son of Christian & Maria Married Mathilda Hostetter, 21, b. Wilmot, res. Wilmot, daughter of Moses & Margareth, Witn Henry & Mary Ann Hostetter of Wilmot, 1 February 1876 in New Hamburg.

  
  

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  Born - 28 Sep 1882 - Baden, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - nurse - 1916 - Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada  = Link to Google Earth