Editing Koehn, Helene Enns (1924-1980)

''Mennonite Brethren Herald'' obituary: 1980 Oct 10 p. 31

Birth date: 1924 Jan 06

text of obituary:

<center><h3>HELENE KOEHN</h3></center>

Mrs. I Helene Koehn of Vancouver passed
away on July 19. She was born on January 6,
1924 in Wolodjewka, Trubetskoj, Russia to
Peter and Liese Enns and grew up in Neu-
Schoensee, Sagradowka. On October 31,
1937 her father was arrested and exiled, leav-
ing his wife and five children. On October 31,
1943 the family fled to Warthegau, Poland,
and later to Soest, Westphalia, Germany. On
April 12, 1927 she accepted Christ as her
Saviour through the illness of a brother-in-
law. In April, 1948 she immigrated to Canada
with her mother and sister Jessie . She was
baptized in the Yarrow (B . C.1 MB Church in
July, 1948. On March 5, 1950 she married a
Vancouver widower, David Koehn. His child-
ren Tina and John were still in the Soviet
Union. She transferred her membership to
the Vancouver MB and then Culloden MB
Church in Vancouver. She is survived by her
husband David ; son Gary and wife Evelyn ,
and daughter Eleanor and husband Walter ,
all of Vancouver; stepchildren: Tina Enns of
the Soviet Union and John of Germany;
mother Liese Allert of Vancouver; and
sisters Elizabeth Siemens, Tina Janzen and
J essie Becker and their husbands, all of Van-
couver. Her funeral was held July 24 in the
Culloden MB Church with pastor Victor
Toews officiating.

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