Wiebe, John (1898-1971)

Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1972 Jan 14 p. 30

Birth date: 1898 Apr 11

text of obituary:

JOHN WIEBE

John Wiebe was bern to Heinrich and Ka'tharina Wiebe on April 11, 1898, in Margenau,in the Ukraine. Most o,f his younger years, however, were spent in Putschkov, Siberia. In August, 1926, he accompanied his family as they move·d to Canada and seHled on a farm near Elm Creek, Maniteba, He lived in that area unHI 1938 when the family again moved, this time to Leamington, Ontario. John Wiebe accepted Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour of his life on November 19, 1939 and in t'he follewing summer he was baptized and became a member of the Leamington Church. He worked in the Bethesda Home at Vineland, OntaT,io for ,abeut two years, beginning in 1945, and there he me'tMiss Helen Regehr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rege1hr of Coaldale, Alberta, who became his wife on July 25, 1948. The Lord gave them two children, JO'hn and Anna, borth still at heme. Mr. Wiebe lived and worked ,in Leamington until the beginning of an extended illness in October, 1969. He passed into the presence of the Lord on December 2, 1971. He is survived by his wife, Helen, and his children, John and Anna; two sisters, Miss Mary Wiebe oOf Leamington and Mrs. Henry Enns of ClearbrooOk, B.C.; and one brother, Henry Wiehe, of St. Catharines.