Letkeman, Jacob (1920-1978)

Mennonite Brethren Herald obituary: 1978 Sept 29 p. 30

Birth date: 1920, Jan 17

text of obituary:

JACOB LETKEMAN

Jacob Letkeman of Vancouver passed away to be with the Lord suddenly on August 27 as a result of an accident at his place of work at Weldwood of Canada. He was born to Jacob and Mary Letkeman on January 17, 1920 in Russia. His adolescent years were difficult, as his family encountered many hardships. At the outbreak of the war in 1939, he was drafted into the armed forces and later spent two and a half years in prison camps. After the war he was reunited with his family in Austria. His mother, brother Peter and sisters Mary, Helen and Elizabeth came to Canada soon after and a year later Jacob followed them. They took up farming in the Abbotsford, B.C. area. Here he accepted the Lord as his Saviour and was baptized and received into the fellowship Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1953 he was married to Erna Huebert, a union blessed with a daughter, Greta, and sons Jake and Peter. They made their home in Vancouver His homegoing occurred a little more than three months after he and his wife celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

He is survived by his wife and children, a well as a son·in-law, Dennis, one brother and three sisters and numerous relatives and friends.