Editing Penner, Victor (1921-2002)

"Mennonite Brethren Herald" obituary: 2003 Feb 7 p. 19

Birth date: 1921 Jan 22

text of obituary:

<center><h3>VICTOR PENNER</h3></center>

 Victor Penner passed
away Nov. 3. He was
born jan . 22, 1921 to
johann and Anna Pen-
ner in Nieder-Chor-
titza, Ukraine. After
leaving school, he
worked on a collective
farm. In 1943, the
family fled to Dresden,
'--'--.-11- Germany. He went to
Yugoslavia in spring 1944 and to Austria at
the end of the war. He did not know where
his family was, except 1 brother in Austria.
He was reunited with his friend Maria and
her daughter Anne. They married Nov. 20,
1945. They went to Germany, where he wa s
baptized and joined the MB church. Th ey
immigrated to Volendam, Paraguay in 1948
and to Canada in 1961. They settled in Ab-
botsford, B.C., bought land and had a chick-
en farm for 25 years. They joined East Ald er-
grove MB Church, moving to Clearbrook
MB Church 3 years later. He and Maria
served as deacons as long as health permit-
ted. He spent his last years in Menno Hospi-
tal, Abbotsford. Predeceased by daughter
Katie at 18 months in Austria, daughter
Hilda in Paraguay, son Ernst in a car accident
at age 20 in 1971, and 6 siblings, he is
mourned by Maria; children Annie Loewen,
Luise Elphick, Erwin, john, Henry, Helga
VanAsseldonk and Mary Willock; 26 grand-
children; 27 great-grandchildren; 2 sist e rs
and 1 brother. The memorial service was
Nov. 7 in Clearbrook MB Church, with Heinz
Ratzlaff and Peter Gunther ministering

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