Loewen, Jacob A. (d.1957)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 May 9 p. 10

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News from Canada

Death Enters Homes in Manitoba Community

TEN FUNERALS HELD AT WINKLER DURING MARCH AND APRIL

By Peter Brown

Winkler, Man., April 30 — Traffic accidents, heart attacks and cancer have bereaved many families in the Winkler community during the past two months and given death a rich harvest. Ten funerals have been held here this month.

In March Rev. J. J. Siemens, 75, died suddenly of a heart attack. Also dead of a heart attack is Jacob Loewen, former bandmaster and business man here. In mid-March J. P. Hoeppner, 58, was fatally injured in a traffic accident and J. A. Loewen, farmer, passed away after several heart attacks.

In April Annie Nikkel, 28, and Frank Loewen, 17, two high school students, were called in death. Annie suffered a stroke and Frank was the victim of a two-car collision.

During this month Peter H. C. Penner, 62, died in the hospital here following a blood clot that developed after some major surgery for a gall-stone condition. H. J. Janzen, 70, pioneer business man in town , was ready for work Friday morning and was dead of a heart attack by 9:00 o'clock. He will be buried today. Nettie Letkeman, 19,was buried yesterday, her death brought on by an attack of pneumonia. She is survived by her mother.

Mrs. G. G. Siemens, 47, will be buried tomorrow, May 1. She died of cancer. She leaves to mourn her passing her husband, (a member of the collegiate staff here), and three children; Reynold Siemens, the well-known cellist of Toronto; Lloyd, a high school teacher at Miami, Manitoba; and a young daughter enrolled in kindergarten.