Frank Bossenberry

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• Church Membership: Zion Evangelical Church, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Name: Frank Bossenberry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177880P
• Occupation: 1889, Zurich, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; laborer
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Piano Tuner
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Occupation: 1935, 20 Mitchel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; piano tuner

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Keep Golden Wedding Day
Violinist and Pianist Are Married 50 Years

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bossenberry Were Married in Zurich in 1889

A citizen, who has carried off the highest awards in all but one of the dozens of old-time violin contests he has entered and his wife, also a musician with a unique record of having taught music continously for the past 54 years, will observe their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday.

Those talented musicians are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bossenberry, Mitchell Avenue. Althought they didn't say so when interviewed at their home this week, it is safe to predict that piano-violin duets by the bride and bridegroom will be features of the golden wedding festivities next week.

Old Favourites

It is possible that Mr. Bossenberry will play "Miller's Reel", "Social Sixty", "Our Govenor March" and some of the other old favourite selections which he carried off no fewer thatn three medals, and scores of first prizes in fiddling contests in Toronto, Grand Bend, Cooksville, Orangeville, Meaford, Cookstown and other places.

At her golden wedding party Mrs. Bossenberry may reminise, as she did for the Record yesterday, about the fine art of teaching three generations of little folks the notes of "Mary's Pet Waltz".

When Mrs. Bossenberry first began to teach music it was her custom to travel from the farm hom of her parents by horse and buggy or horse and cutter, to the station of Zurich, and thense by train to London to take lessons from Professor Mears, a well known musical authority of that period.

Pupils the Same

Now the journey from Zurich which took her several hours, could be covered by automobile in a much shorter time, or by aeroplane in"no time at all." But although times have changed since 1885 there is little difference between the attitudes of music pupils of that period and music pupils of today.

Always there have been some pupils, according to Mrs. Bossenberry, who have the love for music, and who will learn to play whether or no. Always there have been some to whom practising seems like punishment, and who will never be performers. Whatever the attitudes of her pupils - and she has had classes of 60 and over - Mrs. Bossenberry confesses she has always loved her work, and hopes to continue teaching the pecularities of the trebel and bass clefs for many years to come.

Natives of Huron

Prior to her marriage Mrs. Bossenberry was Miss Louisa Wagner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Wagner, who resided in Huron County, 2 1/2 miles from Zurich. Mr. Bossenberry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bossenberry was also a native of Huron. It is of interest that Mr. Bossenberry's father was one of the early schol teachers in the "Green Bush" when Kitchener was still Berlin. It is also of interest that later in life Mr. Bossenberry was an auctioneer and frequently used three langusages of English, French and German, each of which he was able to speak fluently.

Since the golden bridegroom of next week is also a piano tuner and the golden bride a music teacher their romance probably developed before a pianoforte. Information on this point was not revealed to The Record, but the fact remaings that however their meeting came about they were married at the Evangelical parsonage at Zurich on July 18, 1889. Rev. Theo Hauch, father of Rev. J.P. Hauch, a former pastor of Zion Evangelical church of this city, performed the ceremony.

Move to Kitchener

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bossenberry resided in Zurich until April, 31 years ago, when they moved to Kitchener.
Both retained their interest in music through the years and in it found their chief hobby although Mrs. Bossenberry has a second special interest. Throughout her life she has been interested in Sunday school work, and for the past 25 years has been the capable teacher of a Sunday school class at Zion Evangelical Bible School.

Mr. and Mrs. Bossenberry had a family of 10 children of whom all but Franklyn who was drowned in the Breslau dam 17 years ago, are still living. Their family circle also included their grandchildren.

Their children are Mrs. I. Snider, Mr. Charles Bossenberry and Mr. Glen Bossenberry all of this city; Messrs. Clayton and Claude Bossenberry of Detroit; Bert of a Detroit-Buffalo Boat Staff; Emerson at Listowel; Mrs. J.L. Vanderwall of Toronto, and Mrs. J. Keiswater of Wiarton.

It is of interest that all of the members of this family have inherited musical tastes from their parents, Mr. Claude Bossenberry, a vocal teacher in Detroit studied voice culture in Italy for some time; Mr. Burt Bossenberry plays several instruments in the orchestra on the Detroit-Buffalo boat of which he is a staff member and Mr. Charles Bossenberry of this city is a member of both the Kitchener and Waterloo bands.

The anniversary festivities will continue for two days. On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Bossenberry are entertining their children and brothers and siters at a dinner party at the Olde Mill Coffee Shoppe. Among the guests invited to the dinner are Mrs. Bossenberry's brothers, Mr. John Wagner of Guelph and Mr. William Wagner of Zurich and their wives ahd her sisters Mrs. Charles Simpson, Guelph and Mrs. James McClimate, Kippen and their husbands; and Mr. Bossenbrry's sisters, Mrs. Frank Smith of Kitchener and her husband, his brother, Mr. Charles Bossenberry of Vancouver and his wife, his neice Mrs. Alma Willis of Toronto and his nephews Messrs. Bruce Bossenberry, Grand Bend and Milton Bossenberry, Sarnia.

On Tuesday Mr. and Mrs, Bossenberry will be "at home" to thier friends at their residence, Mitchell avenue, in the afternoon from 2: 30 to 5 o'clock and in the evening from 7: 30 to 10 o'clock.


The Kitchener Daily Record Jul 1939

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Frank Bossenberry

A Kitchener piano tuner of the last 32 years, Frank Bossenberry, 81, died Saturday evening at his home, 20 Mitchell avenue, after an illness of five weeks. Mr. Bossenberry was born July 2, 1859 near Zurich. Only July 18, 51 years ago he married Louisa Wagner, Zurich. He attended Zion Evangelical church.

Surviving are his wife and sons, Charles E. of Kitchener, Clayton, Claude and Bert L. all of Detroit, Emerson of Listowel and Glenn at home, three daughters, [Laura] Mrs. Ivan Snider of Kitchener, [Alvena] Mrs. J. L. Vandewall of Toronto and Mrs. Zelda Kieswatter of [ ], a brother Charles Bossenberry of Vancouver, B.C., a sister, Mrs. Frank Smith of Galt and nine grandchildren. A son, Franklin, predeceased him 18 years ago.

Remains are at the Ratz-Bechtal Funeral Home where services will be held Tuesday at 3: 30 p.m.with Dr. C. A. Hirschorn, pastor of Zion Evangelical church officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery.

Kitchener Daily Record 9 Dec 1940

Frank married Louisa Annie Wagner 18 Jul 1889, Zurich, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada. Louisa (daughter of Conrad Wagner and Albina Zapfe) was born 29 Apr 1868, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; died 9 Jun 1945, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Laura Rodella Snider
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177890
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Residence: 1910, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Music Teacher
• Residence: 1935, 20 Mitchel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1940, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Laura married Ivan Bechtel Snider 21 Dec 1910, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ivan (son of Isaiah Snider and Orienta Estella "Orie" Bechtel) was born 19 Mar 1889, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Jan 1946, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177883
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Pearl Button Cutter, Button Factory
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Residence: 1940, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1973, 10 Conway Dr., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BOSSENBERRY, Charles E. - At the K-W Hospital, on Saturday, May 26, 1973, after a lengthy illness, Charles Earl Bossenberry, of 10 Conway Drive, Kitchener, age 81 years, born in Zurich, Ont., a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bossenberry, a resident of the Twin Cities for more than 60 years, and a member of Zion United Church, Mr. Bossenberry served as a piano tuner and technician for many years, he retired in 1966; he was a veteran of the First. World War and formerly a member of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans' Association; husband of Evoline Tuffin; father of Robert, Frederick and Nadine (Mrs. Cyril Brohman), all of Kitchener; brother of Emerson, Harriston Claude, Tucson, Ariz.; Bert, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Mrs. Alvena Van Be Wall, Orillia, and Mrs. Zelda Foden of Kitchener and the late Glenn, Clayton, Franklin and 74.!rs. Laura Snyder; 12 grand-children also survive,

Friends may call at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home, 621 King St. W., Kitchener. Funeral service in the chapel Tuesday at 2 p.m. with Rev. F. J. Roberts and Rev. G. F. Barthel officiating. Interment Memory Gardens.


Kitchener-Waterloo Record 28 May 1973 Pg 24

Charles — Evoline Lottie Tuffin. Evoline (daughter of Charles F. Tuffin and Elizabeth Gurney) was born 30 Jan 1898; died 1989, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW1
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177884P
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Rubber Shoe Maker
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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• Name: Alvena Van de wall
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177891P
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Milliner, Shop
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1940, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1945, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177885
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shanker, Button Factory
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Occupation: 1935, 20 Mitchel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; piano tuner
• Residence: 1940, Listowel, Wallace Twp., Perth County, Ontario, Canada

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177886
• Residence: 1901, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; Ontario German Canadian E & Ass.
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Residence: 1945, Imlay City, Lapeer, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1959, Attica, Lapeer, Michigan, USA

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177887
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; German Canadian Methodist
• Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Residence: 1959, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

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• Name: Glen Bossenberry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177888P
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1935, 20 Mitchel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; piano tuner
• Residence: 1940, 20 Mitchel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1946, Lapeer, Lapeer, Michigan, USA

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Glenn Bossenberry

Glenn Rossenberry, 53, who died of a heart attack Thursday, will be buried from the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home Monday after a service at 3:30 p.m.

Mr. Bossenberry was born in Zurich, Out., and had lived in Lapeer, Mich , for the past 13 years.

He is survived by five brothers, Charles. Kitchener; Clayton, Detroit: Emerson, Listowel, Claude, Attica, Mich., and Bert, Kalamazoo, Mich.: and two sisters, Mrs. Alvena Van de Wall Toronto, and Mrs Zelda Foden, Niagara Falls, Ont.

The body will be at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Sunday. Rev. F. M. Faist, pastor of Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.


Kitchener-Waterloo Record 3 Oct 1959 pg 5

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• Name: Zelda Marguerite Foden
• Name: Zelda Marguerite Kieswetter
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177892
• Residence: 1908, 58 Albert St., Waterloo, Ontario
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1959, Niagara Falls, Welland Co., Ontario, Canada

Zelda — Julius John Kieswetter. Julius (son of Louis Kieswetter and Emmeline Moser) was born 22 May 1890, , Ontario, Canada; died 1944; was buried , Mount Hope Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Zelda — Foden. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177889P
• Residence: 1911, 54 Chapel St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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TWO KITCHENER LADS DROWNED IN BRESLAU DAM

Punt Upsets and Layerne Snyder of Detroit and Franklyn Bossenbury of Kitchener Lose Their Lives-Attempt at Rescue Proves Futile-Used Lungmotor.

Two Kitchener lads, Laverne Snider, aged 10 years, son of Mr. and Mrs Ivan Snider of Detroit and Franklyn Bossenberry, aged about 12 years, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Bossenberry of 20 Mitchell Ave, Kitchener, met a tragic death when they were drowned at the Breslau dam on Monday afternoon. Their punt upset and efforts to effect their rescue proved fruitless. Another boy. Howard Weber of 153 Queen St., South, son of Mr and Mrs J. Weber, who accompanied the other boys was not in the boat at the time.

The boys left Kitchener shortly after two o'clock on a fishing expedition. The three boys after their arrival at the dam found a punt in a clump of willows near the flood gates and young Weber after going for a short trip about the pond returned and Snider and Bossenberry got into the boat. They had left their bait near the bridge and stated they were going to get it. Shortly after young Weber, who was cutting a pole in the willows heard Mervin Cressman, aged 8, calling to him that the punt had capsized and he immediately notified the man at the garage nearby. Knowing the lads could not swim, Jacob Rudy, and E S. Eby of the garage responded quickly and waded into the water in an effort to rescue them They got about 40 feet from shore but found it impossible to go further on account of the mud. In the meantime Oscar Williams of Kitchener came along over the bridge in his motor car, and being informed of the accident, he immediately removed his clothes and jumped in to the rescue. In a short time he recovered the body of Bossenberry, which was taken to the garage. He then went in search of Snider's body. Bossenberry appeared to be alive, according to Eby, when he was carried into the garage. Dr. L. R. Shields and Dr. Hagmeier, together with Fire Chief Guerin, arrived on the scene about ten minutes after the body was rescued. The lung motor was used for about half an hour, but life was extinct.

The body of Snider was found in about an hour, after about two feet of water had been let out of the dam, George Reinhart of Breslau, rescuing the body near the spot where Mr. Williams found the body of Bossenberry.

After the arrival of Coroner Lackner a jury was empannelled, who viewed the remains, after which they were removed to Schreiter's under taking parlors.

The young Snider lad was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Snider. The lad Bossenberry leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bossenberry, six brothers and three sisters, viz, Charles, Clayton, Emerson, Claude, Bert, Glenn, Mrs. Ivan Snider, Mrs. C. R. Keyes, Toronto, and Zelda at home.

The deepest sympathy of the community will go out to the families the who have been so suddenly and tragically bereaved.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 17 Aug 1922, p. 4

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182966

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TWO KITCHENER LADS DROWNED IN BRESLAU DAM

Punt Upsets and Layerne Snyder of Detroit and Franklyn Bossenbury of Kitchener Lose Their Lives-Attempt at Rescue Proves Futile-Used Lungmotor.

Two Kitchener lads, Laverne Snider, aged 10 years, son of Mr. and Mrs Ivan Snider of Detroit and Franklyn Bossenberry, aged about 12 years, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Bossenberry of 20 Mitchell Ave, Kitchener, met a tragic death when they were drowned at the Breslau dam on Monday afternoon. Their punt upset and efforts to effect their rescue proved fruitless. Another boy. Howard Weber of 153 Queen St., South, son of Mr and Mrs J. Weber, who accompanied the other boys was not in the boat at the time.

The boys left Kitchener shortly after two o'clock on a fishing expedition. The three boys after their arrival at the dam found a punt in a clump of willows near the flood gates and young Weber after going for a short trip about the pond returned and Snider and Bossenberry got into the boat. They had left their bait near the bridge and stated they were going to get it. Shortly after young Weber, who was cutting a pole in the willows heard Mervin Cressman, aged 8, calling to him that the punt had capsized and he immediately notified the man at the garage nearby. Knowing the lads could not swim, Jacob Rudy, and E S. Eby of the garage responded quickly and waded into the water in an effort to rescue them They got about 40 feet from shore but found it impossible to go further on account of the mud. In the meantime Oscar Williams of Kitchener came along over the bridge in his motor car, and being informed of the accident, he immediately removed his clothes and jumped in to the rescue. In a short time he recovered the body of Bossenberry, which was taken to the garage. He then went in search of Snider's body. Bossenberry appeared to be alive, according to Eby, when he was carried into the garage. Dr. L. R. Shields and Dr. Hagmeier, together with Fire Chief Guerin, arrived on the scene about ten minutes after the body was rescued. The lung motor was used for about half an hour, but life was extinct.

The body of Snider was found in about an hour, after about two feet of water had been let out of the dam, George Reinhart of Breslau, rescuing the body near the spot where Mr. Williams found the body of Bossenberry.

After the arrival of Coroner Lackner a jury was empannelled, who viewed the remains, after which they were removed to Schreiter's under taking parlors.

The young Snider lad was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Snider. The lad Bossenberry leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bossenberry, six brothers and three sisters, viz, Charles, Clayton, Emerson, Claude, Bert, Glenn, Mrs. Ivan Snider, Mrs. C. R. Keyes, Toronto, and Zelda at home.

The deepest sympathy of the community will go out to the families the who have been so suddenly and tragically bereaved.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 17 Aug 1922, p. 4

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• Name: Nadine Alvena Brohman
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-214639
• Residence: 1973, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Brohman, Nadine

Nadine Brohman was taken into the arms of our Lord on Thursday, January 2, 2014, at the age of 85.

Nadine was a loving mother who raised 5 children in a Christian home.
Left to mourn her are: Mark (Betty), David (Joanne), Bonnee (John), Linda and Scott (Sherry).
She enriched the lives of 6 grandchildren: Lisa, Brett, Ryan, Corey (Nikki), Brae-Lyn (Paul) and Brendon, and 6 great-grandchildren.

She will be missed by her brother Robert Bossenberry (Peggy) and her many nieces and nephews.
Nadine was predeceased by her parents Charles and Evoline Bossenberry, her brother Fred Bossenberry and her husband Cyril Brohman. She was a life-long member of Zion United Church in Kitchener.

Nadine's family will receive relatives and friends from 10 am-11am on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at Zion United Church, 32 Weber Street West, Kitchener A memorial service will be held immediately following the visitation, at 11:15 am with Rev. Jack Paleczny officiating. Reception to follow.

As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Humane Society would be appreciated by the family (cards available at the funeral home).

Visit www.henrywalser.com for Nadine's memorial.

Nadine — Cyril George Brohman. Cyril (son of Clement Arthur "Clem" Brohman and Laura Caroline Reinhart) was born 23 May 1925, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Jan 2004, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]