Anna Maria "Mary" Lerch

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• Name: Anna Maria "Mary" Lindenlaub
• Name: Anna Maria "Mary" Weibe
• Name: Mary E. Lerch Lerch
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-142427
• Immigration: 1843
• Residence: 1844, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Died,/ In Preston on Thursday January 2nd, 1902, at/ 1 o'clock p.m./ Mary E. Lerch,/ Beloved wife of George Lindenlaub,/ In her 76th year./ Funeral/ Will take place on Saturday, January 4th from/ her late residence to the Lutheran Church,/ thence to Preston Cemetery./ Friends and acquaintances will please accept/ this intimation./ Preston, Jan. 2nd, 1902

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Anna married Wilhelm Weibe 5 Nov 1844, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Wilhelm was born 28 May 1829, of, Waterloo Twp., Region of Waterloo, Ontario; died 12 Jan 1857, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Anna — George Lindenlaub. George was born 27 Sep 1825, , Germany; died 12 Jun 1908, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352463

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352464

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• Name: Elizabetha Weibe
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-270547

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352466

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• Name: Mary Elizabeth Schnarr
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-111931
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1932, Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States

Mary — John Schnarr. John (son of Hartman Schnarr and Anna Maria "Mary" Kalbfleisch) was born Sep 1846, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 May 1902, Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States; was buried , Riverside Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-111933
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1876, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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MRS. P. BERNHARDT DIES SUDDENLY AGED RESIDENT VICTIM OF SEIZURE AT HER HOME YESTERDAY

One of Preston's oldest and most respected residents passed away Friday evening, in the person of Caroline Weihe, wife of Peter Bernhardt, Queen Street. Mrs. Bernhardt's death came as a distinct shock to her many friends, for although in her eightieth year, she had been in exceptionally good health, and was stricken suddenly yesterday noon while engaged about her household duties. She lapsed into unconsciousness, and passed on about seven o'clock last evening.

Mrs. Bernhardt was born in Blair on April 21, 1853, and had lived in this district practically all her life. Just three months ago she and Mr. Bernhardt marked the 55th anniversary of their marriage. She was a faithful member of St. Peter's Lutheran church, and an active worker in the ladies aid society, being one of the first members of that society when it was organized many years ago.

Mrs. Bernhardt is survived by her husband, one sister, Mrs. Mary Schnarr, of Rochester, N.Y., three sons, Valentine and Arthur of Preston, and Oscar of Collingwood, and eleven grandchildren. A daughter, Rosaline, and a son, Irvin, predeceased her some years ago. The funeral will be held from the residence, 766 Queen Street, on Monday afternoon at 2: 30 o'clock, with Rev. W.H. Knauff in charge. Friends are asked to kindly omit flowers. Interment will be made in the Preston Cemetery.

Galt Reporter, June 1932

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MRS. P. BERNHARDT DIES SUDDENLY


AGED RESIDENT VICTIM OF SEIZURE AT HER HOME YESTERDAY

One of Preston's oldest and most respected residents passed away Friday evening, in the person of Caroline Weihe, wife of Peter Bernhardt, Queen street. Mrs. Bernhardt's death came as a distinct shock to her many friends, for although in her eightieth year, she had been in exceptionally good health, and was stricken suddenly yesterday noon while engaged about her household duties. She lapsed into unconsciousness, and passed on about seven o'clock last evening.

Mrs. Bernhardt was born in Blair on April 21, 1853, and had lived in this district practically all her life. Just three months ago she and Mr. Bernhardt marked the 55th anniversary of their marriage. She was a faithful member of St. Peter's Lutheran church, and an active worker in the ladies' aid society, being one of the first members of that society when it was organized many years ago.


Mis. Bernhardt is survived by her husband, one sister, Mary Schnarr, of Rochester, three sons, Valentine a of Preston, and Oscar of Collingwood, and eleven grandchildren. A daughter, Rosaline, and a son, Irvin, predeceased her some years ago.

The funeral will be held from the residence, 766 Queen street, on Monday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, with Rev. W. H. Knauff in charge. Friends are asked to kindly omit flowers. Interment will be made in the Preston cemetery.

Caroline married Mayor Peter Bernhardt 21 Mar 1876, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Peter (son of Henry Bernhardt and Dorthea Rahn) was born 1 Oct 1850, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Sep 1947, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352467

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• Name: Mina Weihe
• Name: Wilhelmina "Minnie" Harris
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-350652
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1877, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1880, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1900, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1910, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Wilhelmina married George F. Harris 12 Aug 1877, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. George was born Jun 1858, , Pennsylvania, USA; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Alvinia Lindenlaub
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352461
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-111930

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106791

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-88020

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352460
• Occupation: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; House Painter
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Elected Office: Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; reeve, councillor - Preston
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• Interesting: business, brewery, story, public service, politics
• Name: V. P. Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-100413
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Was co-founder of Rock Springs Brewery with his father. Served on board of the Preston Library and member of the Preston Public Utilities Commission. Member of Preston Council and Reeve. Operated the Waterloo Glove Manufacturing Co.

Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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V. P. Bernhardt 83, Died Thurs.

Well known and respected by citizens of Preston, during his life in this town, Valentine P. Bernhardt died at the Coutts Pavillion, Kitchener, on Thursday afternoon. Born in Preston, he had lived here all his life with the exception of 10 years in Waterloo, in his 84th year, he had been ailing for the past five months. The late Mr. Bernhardt was the grandson of Henry Bernhardt who founded the Rock Spring Brewery, in Preston in 1850. He came into the firm in 1903, as president of the company. Mr. Bernhardt also owned and operated the Waterloo Glove factory, during his term in Waterloo. A member of St. John's Anglican Church, he was a former member of council, Public Utilities Commission and served on the Library Board for a great number of years. He is survived by his wife, the former Pitceathly Walker, two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Snelgrove Brownie) of Galt and Mrs. Allan Smith (Jean), of Preston, also by one brother, Arthur of Preston. A son and a daughter, Dorathe, predeceased him. The late Mr. Bernhardt is at the Stager-Barthel Funeral Home, 566 Queen Street, Preston, where the funeral service will be conducted on Sunday, May 14, at 4 p.m., by Canon R. T. Appleyard of St. John's Anglican Church. Committal service will be held in Park Lawn Memorial Chapel.

Galt Reporter 1961

Valentine married Violet Jane Pitceathly Walker 20 Aug 1904, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Violet (daughter of William Wallace Walker and Rachael Clemistia Brown) was born 20 Aug 1883, Fergus, Nichol Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1967; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233255

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• Name: A. R. Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-229395
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Banker
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retail Merchant, Hardware
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1933, 867 Hamilton St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1976, 485 Highland Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BERNHARDT, Arthur R.

At his residence, 485 Highland Park, Cambridge (Preston), Thursday, August 19, 1976, Arthur R. Bernhardt, beloved husband of Doris M. Bowman, dear father of Frank, David and Clara of Cambridge (Preston), in his 96th year. Predeceased by his first wife, Ida May Theurel, in 1933 and a daughter, Kathryn (Mrs. Len Hagey), in 1971. Also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. Bernhardt was born in Cambridge (Galt) and lived all his life in Cambridge, last surviving member of the family of the late, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bernhardt. Mr. Bernhardt was a retired hardware merchant in Cambridge (Preston); operated and owned his hardware store from 1906 to 1950; also served on the Preston school board, public library board and planning board for a number of years. He was treasurer of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, for 15 years. Mr. Bernhardt was an active sportsman. For three years was on an Ontario football championship team (1906-1908); was very active in tennis and lawn bowling. A member of Preston Masonic Lodge. A private family funeral service was conducted today. Interment in Preston cemetery.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 20 Aug 1976 pg 29

Arthur — Doris Margaret Mary Bowman. Doris (daughter of Irvin Henry Bowman and Gertrude E. Rooke) was born 23 May 1910, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Nov 2006, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Arthur married Ida May Theurer 25 Aug 1908, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ida (daughter of Frank Theurer and Catharine Boehmer) was born 13 Sep 1886, Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 30 Nov 1933, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 3 Dec 1933, Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rosaline Caroline Smith
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-350691
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Rosaline married Stephan W. Smith 14 Jul 1908, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Stephan was born Jan 1883, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Irwin married Victoria Anna Maass 27 Nov 1909, Zurich, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada. Victoria (daughter of Rev. Carl C. J. Maass and Caroline Eicholtz) was born 1887, Logan Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-227395
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk, Bank
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-88043
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Llutheran
• Residence: 1932, Collingwood, Nottawasaga Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario

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• Name: Jean Smith
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-141928
• Residence: 1974, 18 Grand Hill Drive, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Jean — Allan H. S. Smith. Allan (son of Matthew Edward Smith and Violet Olga Dorothy Ruth Schlueter) was born 1915; died 15 Jul 1974, Lake Louise, , Alberta, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-228636
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Name: Brownie Bernhardt
• Name: Pitceathly Brownie "Brownie" Snelgrove
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-137008

Pitceathly — Captain Laurence Edwin Earl "Lawrence" Snelgrove. Laurence was born 1913; died 28 Aug 1944; was buried , Saint George's Anglican Cemetery, Denfield, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jimmy Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352592

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24604
• Honoured: 1991; Order of Ontario
• Hall of Fame - Cambridge: 2002, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BERNHARDT, Clara

At Freeport Hospital Health Care Village, Kitchener, formerly of 515 Langs Drive, Cambridge, on Saturday, May 1, 1993, in her 82nd year. Dear sister of Frank of Cambridge. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents, Arthur and Ida Bernhardt; one sister, Kathryn Hagey (1971) and one brother, David (1993), all of Cambridge. Clara was born in Cambridge (Preston) and was a lifelong resident of the area. A member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church and a recipient of the Order of Ontario in 1991. At the request of Clara, there will be no visitation at the Barthel Funeral Home. 566 Queenston Rd., Cambridge. Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at the Fairview Central Auditorium, 515 Langs Drive, Cambridge, Monday May 10 at 2 p.m. Interment of ashes in Preston Cemetery.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 4 May 1993 pg A11

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As an adult, Clara May Theurer Bernhardt (1911-1993) would recall her earliest years as being full of fine accomplishments and activities: she could skate, play tennis, practise piano, and care for her younger siblings. Each of these activities would eventually be stripped from her by a debilitating disease. Born in Preston, Ontario, Clara was the eldest of five children. On an autumn evening during her eleventh year, she collapsed at the foot of the stairs on her way to bed. She was diagnosed with polio, a disease that dragged her through months of doubt and hope and confusion, not to mention numerous treatments and visits to the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. By the time the doctors had given up, Clara was in a wheelchair with a curved spine and all but entirely immobilized limbs. Determined to see his daughter succeed, father Arthur Bernhardt drove Clara to school and carried her into class, but this was only possible until Clara reached the eighth grade. As Preston lacked a high school, and because as streetcars could not accommodate wheelchairs, Clara became increasingly alienated from her peers. Nonetheless she studied hard, thanks to private tutors and extensive reading at home. Determined to write professionally, and to not fall behind her friends, Clara filled her spare time with writing practice. At only seventeen, with pieces already published in places like the GLOBE's "Circle of Young Canada" and with book reviews in the local paper, she received her first pay-cheque for "Eve's Opportunity," a short story in the American magazine GIRLHOOD DAYS. From the death of her mother, to enduring a bout of colitis, to losing out on a promised position writing a social events and women's organizations column, Clara continued to experience setbacks well into her early adult years. Supported by her work on staff with the KITCHENER DAILY RECORD and encouraged by her friendship with newspaperman Gregory Clark, she made it through the Depression. From her growing output of poems she continued to contribute prolifically to Canadian newspapers and magazines and to American religious magazines for children, publications including the CANADIAN HOME JOURNAL and STAR WEEKLY. Her first books were SILENT RHYTHM (1938), with a foreword by Ethelwyn Wetherald*, and NIN NAUNANIM, A SONNET SEQUENCE (1939) in a collaborative volume with four other poets, privately printed in Belleville. Although she never married, Clara carried on a close and fulfilling correspondence before the war with an American she referred to as "John." The two never met because she feared disappointing him with her disabilities. During the war, Clara volunteered as a book critic for the local newspaper, the PRESTONIAN and wrote a Red Cross column called "Red Cross Reminders." As a sign of her compassionate nature, she also conducted a personal mission of mercy which won her some renown: to every relative of an unaccounted-for soldier, she sent a copy of her poem "Missing." Ever frustrated by her physical constraints, Clara fell into a depressive state, but after she began to regain feeling in her legs and when her back and fingers began to straighten, her faith in God was renewed and a visit to Lyndhurst rehabilitation centre was finally possible. After six weeks at Lyndhurst, and hours of painful and exhausting exercise, Clara was able to spend her first weekend alone in Toronto. With a lighter and more mobile wheelchair, she took a road-trip with a friend through Ontario, with stops at Manitoulin Island and Providence Bay in Sudbury. Her autobiography, LADY IN ARMS, for which she was seeking a publisher in 1951, remains in manuscript in her papers at Wilfrid Laurier University. She also published a book of songs entitled TIP TOE TUNES, intended for very young children. She composed the 1967 Centennial Year Hymn for Canadian churches and wrote "Constant Flame," a play for the 50th Anniversary of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. In 1991, two years before her death, Clara was presented with the Order of Ontario. Ms. Bernhardt died on 1 May 1993 at the Freeport Health Center in Kitchener and her ashes were buried at Preston Cemetery.

Bernhardt, Clara. (2018). SFU Digitized Collections. Retrieved 12 August 2018, from https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-632/bernhardt-clara

Hall of Fame - Cambridge:
she wrote thousands of poems and had a number of them published in the Canadian Home Journal and the Star Weekly. She had five collections of poems published including "Silent Rhythm", "Far Horizons", "Hidden Music", "Bermuda Interlude" and "I Need You". Miss Bernhardt claimed that it was during the Second World War that she actually learned to write by contributing book reviews to the Prestonian, a local weekly newspaper...<sup>1a

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• Name: Kathryn Hagey
• Residence: Baptist
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-331477

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Mrs. A. Leonard Hagey

PRESTON, Mrs. A. Leonard Hagey, 1934 Coronation Blvd., died Monday, at South Waterloo Hospital, Galt. She was 55. The former Kathryn Bernhardt, she was born in Preston, a daughter of Arthur R. Bernhardt and the late Mrs. Bernhardt. She was a member of King St. Baptist Church. Surviving besides her father, are her husband; one son, John at home; one sister, Clara Bernhardt, and two brother's, David and Frank, all of Preston. The body is at Barthel-Stager Funeral Home, until Wednesday noon, when removal will be made to the church for service, at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Hagey's cemetery.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 15 Jun 1971 pg 27

Kathryn — Arthur Leonard "Leonard" "Len" Hagey. Arthur (son of Arthur Hagey and Mary Jane Tatum) was born 3 Feb 1913, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Feb 2014, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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Frank — Bernice Thur. Bernice (daughter of Henry Joseph "Harry" Thur and Luella Frances "Lue" Bricker) was born CA 1920. [Group Sheet]

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BERNHARDT, David Arthur

Friday, March 19, 1993, with grace and courage. Dear husband and friend of Virginia; loved father of Nina Harnack, Christopher and Mark, loving grandfather of Jennifer Moore and Jason Harnack; dear brother of Clara and Frank. Cremation has taken place.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 22 Mar 1993 pg A11

David — Virginia Melanson. [Group Sheet]