Giesbrecht, Anne (1921-1975)

Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1975 Oct 3 p. 31

Birth date: 1921 May 10

text of obituary:

ANNE GIESBRECHT

Anne, the eldest of six children in the home of Johann and Helena Giesbrecht, was born on May 10, 1921 in Soworofska, Russia. The harshness of those times -the famine of the 1920's as well as a near fatal childhood illness as deeply etched into her memory.

She was born into a family of faith. By her deeds and words she frequently expressed a deep commitment to God. She along with two brothers accompanied her parents during the harrowing departures from Russia which began April 16, 1929. After nearly one year they took up residence in Manitoba. In 1948 the family moved to Yarrow, where she lived, apart from a brief hospitalization, to the end of her life.

She endeared herself to many by the devotion with which she cared, over the past 15 years, for her ailing mother, never complaining of her own discomforts even when nearing the end of her own struggle against cancer.

Shortly, before she passed away she expressed her faith with these words: "He's so wonderful. He never makes a mistake." She is survived by five brothers: John and Helen, Maple Ridge, B.C., Peter and Katherine, Vancouver, Henry and Joanne, Salmon Arm, B.C., William and Maria, Surrey, B.C., David and Betty, Clearbrook, B.C., seven nephews, four nieces and one grandnephew.