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• Name: Sara Jacob Braun
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233529

Sara — Johann Jacob Braun. Johann was born 4 Sep 1862, Fürstenwerder, Molotschna, Taurida, Südrussland, Ukraine; died 1 Jan 1938, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233510
• Residence: 1972, 82 Wilson Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BRAUN, Rev. Jacob At the K-W Hospital, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1972, after a brief illness, Jacob Braun, of 82 Wilson Ave., Kitchener, age 24 years; husband of Anna Voth; father of Jacob and Peter, Kitchener; Alfred, Brantford; John and Henry, St. Catharines; George, Dorchester; Anne (Mrs. Jacob Tjart), Singhampton; Helen (Mrs. Angus Meldrum), Gowanstown; one brother, Peter, New Hamburg, and 38 grand- children; two brothers and two sisters predeceased him.

He was ordained to the ministry in 1929 and served congregations in New Hamburg, Port Rowan and Waterloo, retiring in 1958.

Resting at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home, 621 King St. W., Kitchener, after 7 p.m. Wednesday, until noon Friday when removal will be made to the Waterloo-Kitchener Mennonite Church for service at 3 p.m., with Rev. David Neufeld officiating. Interment Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends Wednesday 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursday 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

Donations to the Mennonite Central Committee, the Commission on Overseas Mission or the Mennonite Pioneer Mission may be made as expressions of sympathy.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record - Wed, Oct 25, 1972 Page 30

Jacob married Anna Voth 30 Jan 1921, Wernersdorf, Molotschna, Taurida, Südrussland, Ukraine. Anna was born 22 Jan 1898, , Russia; died 18 Jun 1976, Palmerston, Peel Township, Wellington Co., Ontario; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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Peter — Ekaternine "Katja" Braeul. Ekaternine was born 26 Dec 1897, Wernersdorf, Molotschna, Taurida, Südrussland, Ukraine; died 7 Jan 1997, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Riverside Cemetery, New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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BRAUN, Jacob - Passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family on Friday, November 4, 2005, at St. Mary's Hospital, at the age of 83.

Beloved husband of Evelyn (nee McKnight) Braun for 60 years. Dear father of Randy, Greg (Peggy), Marty (Lorelei), Jeanette Marshall (David). Daughter-in-law Linda Lyons (Jarv). Cherished grandfather of Marcie Trearty (Andrew), Darren (Monique), Barbara, Robbie, Shannon, Andrew, Sarah Marshall, and Edison Marshall. Will be remembered by four great- grandchildren Aunika and Noah, Cailin and Andrew Trearty. Survived by three brothers and two sisters.

Predeceased by son Wayne, grandson Wayne Jr., and two brothers.

Jacob's family will receive relatives and friends from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2005 (today) at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener (749-8467). Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at Bethany Evangelical Missionary Church (160 Lancaster St, E., Kitchener), at 2 p.m. Interment Memory Gardens.

As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario would be appreciated by the family (cards available at the funeral home).

Visit www.obit411.com/1812 for Jacob's memorial

The Record 7 Nov 2005 pg 17

Jacob — Evelyn Kathleen McKnight. Evelyn was born 19 Mar 1915, Wallace Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 28 Mar 2010, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Helen Meldrum
• Name: Helen Sullivan
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233553

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Helen Meldrum - Passed away peacefully at her daughter's home in Orangeville, ON, surrounded by her family on Monday, April 19, 2010, at the age of 82. Loving mother of Patricia Randall (Dee), Barbara Carroll (David), Tim Sullivan (Shelley), Dorothy Mead (Ed), Douglas Meldrum, and Ian Meldrum. Helen was blessed by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren who will miss her dearly. Sister of Peter Braun and Henry Braun, sister-in-law to Jake Tjart, Carolyn Braun, Selma Braun and Ruth Braun. Predeceased by her parents, Jacob and Anna Braun, siblings, Jake Braun, Alfred Braun, Anne Tjart, John Braun, and George Braun. Helen will be missed by her extended family and friends.

Helen's family will receive relatives and friends on Friday from 7-9 pm and Saturday from 2-2:45 pm at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener. A funeral service will be held in the chapel of the funeral home on Saturday, April 24, 2010, at 3 pm. Interment to follow at Memory Gardens.

As expressions of sympathy, donations to the London Regional Cancer Centre would be appreciated.

Waterloo Region Record Wed, Apr 21, 2010 Page 19

Helen married Angus McQueen Meldrum 30 Nov 1964, Mount Royal, , Quebec, Canada. Angus was born 24 Sep 1926, Stirling, Stirlingshire Co., Scotland; died 25 May 2004, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Helen married James Timothy Sullivan 7 Jan 1950. James was born 30 Aug 1930, Camden, Knox, Maine, United States; died 23 Oct 2017, Laguna Woods, Orange, California, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Peter — Hella Klassen. Hella was born 1925; died 2010; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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Biographical sketch: Lucy Braun (1928-2019) is the daughter of Peter and Katharina (Braul) Braun. Her given name is Elisabeth, but she was usually known by the German "Lusie" or later in Canada, the English "Lucy." Born in Wernersdorf, Molotschna, South Russia, she was the fifth of nine children.

Both her grandfather Johann Braun and father Peter Braun had been village administrators ("Burgermeister") in Wernersdorf; Johann from 1907-1910 and 1914-1917, and Peter from 1941-1943. Her mother, Katharina Braul, came from several generations of teachers: Jacob Johan Braul (1803-1866), Johann Jacob Braul (1835-1907), and David Johan Braul (1861-1933).

David Braul's first wife, Eliese (Harder) died in 1916. After immigrating to Canada in 1924, he married Agathe Nickel (or Nikkel) in Arnaud, Manitoba in 1926. David Braul was the secretary for the Mennonite group that purchased land from Lyman Farms in Arnaud in the 1920s.

Peter and Katharina and their children did not emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Lucy's four younger siblings did not survive infancy. After the birth of twin siblings in 1930, Lucy was sent to live with her Aunt Louisa (Braul) and Uncle Willie Rempel in Crimea to ease the burden on her parents. In 1937, when her aunt and uncle were deported to Siberia, she returned to her parents. The family joined the Great Trek of Mennonites from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1943, where they found work on an estate farm in Poland.

In 1944, her father and brothers were drafted into the German army. Lucy and her mother tried to travel west but were deported back to the Soviet Union. They were moved to Martuk, Kazakhstan in August 1945. Here they struggled daily for their survival. After 1957, they were able to make contact with her father and three brothers in Ontario, Canada. In 1966, Lucy and her mother were able to immigrate to Canada, settling in New Hamburg, Ontario. In the absence of news about his wife during their years of separation, Peter had married again, but following the discovery that Katharina was still alive, the second wife promised to "step aside." She died of cancer in 1959. In 1969, the family learned the fate of Lucy's brother Ewald, who was separated from the others during the war. He died of tuberculosis in the Soviet Union in 1947.

After her arrival in Canada, Lucy worked at Home Hardware in New Hamburg, where she still lives. Outside of work, she pursued her interest in family history and genealogy. She was particularly inspired by a relative, Henry Goertz, who gave her a copy of his manuscript on the village of Wernersdorf.

Custodial history: Donated to the Archives by Lucy Braun in 2016

Scope and content: The fonds consists primarily of genealogical charts, correspondence, photographs, and photocopies of journals of family members. Spellings of given names and surnames include many variants.

Series 1 consists of Braul (Braeul) family documents, tracing their origins in West Prussia through settlement in Russia and immigration to Manitoba in the 1920s. Series 2 follows the Braun family from their origins in West Prussia to Russia. The series primarily documents the children of Jacob Johann Braun and Helene (Bargen). This couple had 12 children; 10 survived childhood.

Series 3 consists of research by Lucy Braun over several decades to list the families in her home village of Wernersdorf in 1943. Her research captures the village population as it was just prior to most of the families departing for Poland on the Great Trek of Mennonites leaving the Soviet Union with the German army. The families are listed by farmyard ("hof") and/or house number ("haus"). Details of previous owners of some of the houses are given. Genealogical information about the families and their descendants are given, as well as some details of family and personal histories. Many photographs and letters gathered by Lucy Braun over the course of her research are included. Some families have extensive information in the files, while others have only basic details.

Braun also researched other family genealogies, including her aunt Anna (Voth) Braun. She assisted Tina (Harder) Bergen (adopted daughter of Johann and Katarina (Dyck) Harder) in searching for information about her birth parents.

In the early 2000s, Lucy assisted a relative, John A. Harder, with the transcription of Harder family letters. The letters were translated and published in From Kleefeld with Love (Kitchener: Pandora Press, 2003).

Lucy Braun (2019) Mennonite Archives of Ontario. Available at: https://uwaterloo.ca/mennonite-archives-ontario/personal-collections/lucy-braun (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

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Wayne Braun Former Ayr resident


Wayne Braun, who spent the past two years helping redesign the look of the Toronto Star newspaper, collapsed and died of a heart attack at his home in Scarborough on Friday, November 12, 1993. He was 47. Born in Kitchener, he was a son of Jacob and Evelyn Braun. Mr. Braun graduated from Kitchener Collegiate Institute and after studying at University of Waterloo, joined the Kitchener-Waterloo Record as a reporter in 1967. He was a copy editor when he left, in 1975, to join the Edmonton Journal as sports editor. He returned to the Record in 1976 as sports editor and was the newspaper's assistant city editor when he joined The Star as assistant national editor in 1980. At The Star, Mr. Braun took on a wide range of assignments. As assistant Sunday editor, he played a key role in shepherding The Sunday Star along the road to maturity. "He's the editor we call on when the news desk needs help," observed Ray Timson, the then managing editor, in 1985. Later, as Insight editor, he "brought coherence, good sense and editing skill," in the words of an admiring supervisor, Geoff Chapman, then deputy managing editor in charge of features. After a period as assistant city editor supervising the newspaper's beat, or specialist reporters, Mr. Braun transferred back to one of his first loves, the sports desk. But he wasn't to be there for long. When The Star's redesign team was formed, he quickly got the nod as one of the key players. Mr. Braun and his wife Linda resided in Ayr from the early 1970's until 1985, except for the brief period of time they spent in Edmonton. For several years he helped Lorne Pfeiffer coach a juvenile hockey team in Ayr. He was also an avid angler. Besides his parents and wife, he leaves a daughter, Marcie, 18, and a son, Darren, 17, brothers Randy of Waterloo, Greg of Milton, Marty of Kitchener, sister Jeanette Marshall of Norwood and nine nieces and nephews. Predeceased by a son Wayne Jr. in infancy. Resting at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home, Waterloo, where funeral service will be held today (Wed.) at 1: 00 p.m. Committal service and interment to follow at Ayr Cemetery with reception at the Ayr Community Centre.

The Ayr News 17 Nov 1993 pg 14

Wayne — Linda D. Bauer. Linda was born 1949; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]