Album: Family of Pat Gillis and Elmer Wiens
Friends 1 | Friends 2 | Friends 3 | Friends 4 | Friends 5
Holidays 1 | Holidays 2 | Holidays 3 | Holidays 4
Family 1 | Family 2 | Family 3
| Family 4 | Family 5 | Family 6 | Family 7 | Family 8 | Family 9
Yarrow Days | Yarrow Scenes | Yarrow Pioneers: Vedder River Flats & Majuba Hill
| Vancouver Views | Victoria Times
Yarrow Elementary Junior High | Yarrow Junior High 1953-57 | Junior High Student Council
| Yarrow Friends
1994 School Reunion 1 | 1994 School Reunion 2
| 1994 School Reunion 3 | 1994 School Reunion 4
Vedder River | Vedder Mountain
UBC Reunion | Critical Paths | Mug Shots
Family 4
The Wiens(z) Family
Derksen Genealogy | Martens Genealogy | Wiens Genealogy | Peters Genealogy
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
"Burnt Norton" by T.S. Eliot
Katie (Derksen) Wiens Mother
| Gerhard and Erika (Neumann) Wiens
Dad and Mom
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Raymond Wiens | Elmer Wiens |
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Luetta Wiens | Alfred Wiens |
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Peter and Nettie, Katie and George, Minnie and John Alvin, Maria and Peter, Henry
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Peter and Maria (Peters) Wiensz
Grandfather and Grandmother
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Hydro Power Plant - Alcan Aluminium, Kitimat, B.C.
Dad's (George Wiens) Worksite during the 1950's - 1970's
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Canadian Hop Yards
Gerhard Wiens (Dad) at the right
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Elmer Wiens, Alvin Wiensz, Patricia Gillis December 9, 2005
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Pete and Nettie Wiens Uncle Pete and Aunt Nettie
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John Wiens Uncle John
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Uncle Pete's Funeral - Aunt Nettie, Lenora, Stanley |
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Family of Pete and Nettie Wiens
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Gordon, Nettie, Lenora, Pete, Irvin Leonard, John, Doreen, Clarence, Stan
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Henry Wiens - Uncle Henry
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Peter, Alvin, George
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Uncle Alvin Wiensz
Gerhard, Alvin, Elmer
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Wiens Brothers
(Girl - cousin), Henry, Pete, John, George (Dad)
| Bible School, Herbert Saskatchewan Bill Buller and Gerhard Wiens |
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Margaret and John Wiensz
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Wiensz Supply
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Saskatchewan Harvest
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Family of Ted and Joyce Wiensz
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Joyce and Ted Wiensz |
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Saskatchewan Cousins - Ted and Joyce |
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Charis, Keith, Kirsten, Travis, Truit, Ted, Joyce |
Ted Wiensz, Elmer Wiens, Joyce Wiensz (June 15, 2007) |
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Uncle John and Aunt Minnie and Theodore |
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WW II - Uncle Henry in Holland with Canadian Military |
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Henry Wiens and the Dispatch Riders |
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Maria and Peter Wiensz - George and Bertha Peters
George is Grandmother's Brother
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Peters - Wiensz Families
Jakob Peters, Henry Wiensz, John Wiensz, Gerhard Wiensz (Dad)
John and Elizabeta Epp, Margaretta and Alfred (Son) Harder, Maria and Alvin (son) Wiensz, Peter Wiensz
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Grandfather Wiensz and Grandson |
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Clearbrook Farm
Grandfather Wiensz
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Majuba Hill Farm
Grandfather Wiensz
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Grandfather Peter Wiensz' Funeral
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Grandfather Peter Wiensz and Grandmother Maria (Mary) Wiensz' Cemetery Plot
McClure Road, Mennonite Cemetery, Abbotsford, B.C.
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Till We Meet Again
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Wiens(z) Genealogy
ISBN 0-88925-211-4
WIENS, Esther J., et al.
Our Wiensz Heritage: Our Mennonite Heritage and Our Place Among the Descendants of Heinrich Wiensz (1774-1819).
By ... and Tina Wiens and Victor D. Wiens.
Vancouver BC: David C. Wiens 1980. 80 p., tables, photos, maps.
Website: Our Wiensz Heritage by David C. Wiens.
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Russian birth and death dates use the Julian Calendar.
Generation #1
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Great, Great, Great Grandfather Heinrich Wiensz, (b. July 7, 1774, Elbing Prussia, d. September 10, 1819, Molotschna, Russia)
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Great, Great, Great Grandmother Judith Sawatsky, (b. December 16, 1774, Marienburg, Prussia, d. October 28, 1823, Molotschna, Russia )
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At the age of 30 years, in 1804, Heinrich and Judith Wiensz emigrated to the Molotschna Mennonite settlement just North of the Sea of Azov, Russia.
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Children:
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Five Daghters |
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Gerhard |
July 12, 1816 |
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Heinrich |
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Generation #2
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Great, Great, Grandfather Gerhard Wiensz, (b. July 12, 1816, Blumenort Molotschna, Russia)
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Great, Great, Grandmother Maria Martens, (b. August 8, 1816, Blumenort Molotschna, Russia)
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Gerhard and Maria were married on January 18, 1840 and moved to Steinbach, Molotschna, Russia. Of their ten children, five were:
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Children:
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Jacob Gerhard |
June 24, 1842 |
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Gerhard G. |
March 19, 1844 |
January, 1930
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Maria |
1846 |
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Katharina |
1850 |
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Heinrich |
June 16, 1853 |
January 14, 1930
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Generation #3
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Great Grandfather Gerhard G. Wiensz, (b. March 19, 1844, Steinbach, Molotschna, Russia, d. 1930, Dallas, Oregon, U.S.A.)
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Great Grandmother Katarina Reimer, (b. 1848, d. 1895)
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Gerhard and Katarina were married in 1869 and had 12 children. In 1924 at the age of 80 years, Gerhard emigrated to Dalmeny, Saskatchewan with his son Jacob, where his son Peter Wiensz and family lived. In 1926 he moved to Dallas, Oregon to join his eldest son Gerhard.
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Children:
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Gerhard G. |
November 4, 1870 |
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Johann |
July 6, 1872 |
October 20, 1873
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Jacob G. |
January 27, 1874 |
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Maria |
September 4, 1875 |
February 7, 1973, Dallas, Oregon
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Heinrich |
November 6, 1877 |
March 12, 1956, California, U.S.A.
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Johann |
1879 |
1884
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Katharina |
1881 |
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Kornelius |
1883 |
1884
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Peter G. |
February 24, 1885 |
November 29, 1961
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Johann |
April 7, 1887 |
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Anna |
December 26, 1888 |
January 16, 1978
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Kornelius G. |
March 18, 1891 |
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Generation #4
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Grandfather Peter G. Wiensz, (b. February 24, 1885, Blumenort, Molotschna, Russia, d. November 29, 1961, Clearbrook, B.C., Canada)
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Grandmother Maria Peters, (b. November 4, 1891, Dawlekanowa, Russia, d. July 22, 1966, Clearbrook, B.C., Canada)
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Peter and Maria married after Peter finished his Russian Government Service. They worked on Peter's father's farm unitil 1913, when they emigrated to Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, Canada. Later they owned farms near Swift Current and Speedwell, Saskatchewan. In 1943, Peter, Maria, and their youngest son, Alvin, moved to Yarrow, B.C., where they operated a truck farm on Majuba Hill, above Eckert Road on Vedder Mountain, next to his son Peter and Nettie Wiens's place. In 1951 they retired to Clearbrook on Old Yale Road, near the Clearbrook M.B. Church.
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Children:
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Peter |
August 24, 1912 |
August 1, 1997
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Gerhard (George) Peter |
November 26, 1913 |
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Henry |
September 7, 1915 |
1972
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John |
March 5, 1918 |
June 14, 2000
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Alvin |
Feruary 22, 1923 |
January 15, 2007
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Generation #5
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Father's Brother Peter Wiens, (b. August 24, 1912, d. August 1, 1997)
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Nettie Loewen, (b. May 14, 1918, d. 2001)
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Children: |
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Irvin
| February 1, 1942
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Gordon
| January 1, 1944
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Stanley
| March 20, 1946
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Lenora
| August 11, 1947
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Leonard
| January 6, 1951
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Doreen
| April 16, 1952
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John
| June 11, 1953
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Clarence
| August 8, 1958
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Father Gerhard Peter Wiens, (b. November 26, 1913, Saskatchewan)
(remarried Erika Neumann (b. August 15, 1924))
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Mother Katie (Tina) Wiens (Derksen), (b. March 28, 1915, Russia, d. January 3, 2004) (remarried Dixon Cameron Simpson)
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Children: |
Born |
Died |
Raymond Floyd
| December 20, 1941
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Elmer Gerald
| November 19, 1944
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Luetta Rose
| November 25, 1946
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Alfred Norman
| September 24, 1948
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Father's Brother Henry Wiensz, (b. September 7, 1915, d. 1972)
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Betty Vriend, (b. , d. )
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Born |
Died |
Robert
| August 17, 1958
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Father's Brother John Wiensz, (b. March 5, 1918, d. June 14, 2000)
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Minnie Neufeld, (b. August 9, 1918, d. January 30, 1976 )
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Died |
Ted
| February 15, 1948
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Stewart
| January 7, 1964
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Peters Genealogy
Generation #1
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Great Grandfather Gerhard G. Peters, (b. September 24, 1868, Liebenau, Moloshmore Taurien, Russia, son of Gerhard Peters and Margaret Friesen, d. 1935, Speedwell, Saskatchewan)
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Great Grandmother Maria Wall, (b. December 5, 1867, Grazwide, Moloshnov, Taurien, Russia, daughter of Kornelius Wall and Sara Klassen, d. 1922/1923, Russia )
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Gerhard and Maria married on December 28, 1889, in Herzenburg, Russia. Of their eleven children, only seven lived to become adults. The Peters family lived in Dawlekanowa, Russia. After the Revolution, they moved to Slavgorod, South Siberia. Great Grandmother Maria died in 1923/1924 in Russia, at the age of 56/57, having been maried to Great Grandfather Gerhard Peters for 33/34 years. Great Grandfather remarried in 1924 to Anna Dirkson. In 1926, Great Grandfather and Anna emigrated to Canada, living with their eldest daughter, Grandmother Maria, and Grandfather Peter Wiens in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. After this, they lived with their eldest son, Gerhard Peters, in Hepburn and Fairholme, Saskatchewan.
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Children:
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Maria (Wiensz) |
November 4, 1891 |
July 22, 1966, Clearbrook, B.C.
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Gerhard (George) |
October 20, 1885 |
August 9, 1968, Abbostford, B.C.
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Korneluis |
December 26, 1896 |
June 16, 1969, Winnipeg, Man.
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Margareta (Harder, Johnson) |
November 3, 1899 |
January 5, 1980, Saskatoon, Sask.
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Abram |
April 17, 1901 |
June 11, 1974, Vancouver, B.C.
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Elisabeta (Epp) |
March 8, 1903 |
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Jacob G. |
May 27, 1907 |
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Generation #2
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Grandfather Peter P. Wiensz, (b. February 24, 1885, Blumenort, Molotschna, Russia, d. November 29, 1961, Clearbrook, B.C., Canada)
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Grandmother Maria Peters, (b. November 4, 1891, Dawlekanowa, Russia, d. July 22, 1966, Clearbrook, B.C., Canada)
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Peter and Maria married after Peter finished his Russian Government Service. They worked on Peter's father's farm unitil 1913, when they emigrated to Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, Canada. Later they owned farms near Swift Current and Speedwell, Saskatchewan. In 1943, Peter, Maria, and their youngest son, Alvin, moved to Yarrow, B.C., where they operated a truck farm on Majuba Hill, above Eckert Road on Vedder Mountain, next to his son Peter and Nettie Wiens's place. In 1951 they retired to Clearbrook on Old Yale Road, near the Clearbrook M.B. Church.
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Children:
| Born
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Peter |
August 24, 1912 |
August 1, 1997
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Gerhard (George) Peter |
November 26, 1913 |
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Henry |
September 7, 1915 |
1972
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John |
March 5, 1918 |
June 14, 2000
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Alvin |
Feruary 22, 1923 |
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Generation #3
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Father Gerhard Peter Wiens , (b. November 26, 1913, Saskatchewan)
(remarried Erika Neumann (b. August 15, 1924))
| Mother Katie (Tina) Wiens (Derksen), (b. March 28, 1915, Russia, d. January 3, 2004) (remarried Dixon Cameron Simpson)
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Children: |
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Raymond Floyd
| December 20, 1941
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Elmer Gerald
| November 19, 1944
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Luetta Rose
| November 25, 1946
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Alfred Norman
| September 24, 1948
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