3.317 Esther Patkau Collection

Volume 3.317 Esther Patkau Collection

Color photographs:
– Gaede family (b&w)
– Aaron Martens & David Nikkel (b&w)
– Dave and Sarah Nikkel
– Sarah Nikkel and Rosie Loewen
– Dave Nikkel at his wife’s casket
– Dave Nikkel and friend Penner at wife’s casket, July 1993
– John Dueckman
– Luela ( ) Dueckman
– John & Luella Dueckman 50th wedding anniversary, 1955
– Group of women including Esther Patkau
– Peters, Ilott, Nickel, and Bone families
– Baby Sophie Christiane Nickel birth announcement
Black & white photos:
– Phyllis, Florence and Maryane Hooge as girls
– Five unidentified photos in cardboard standup frames
– Family photos used in The Paethkeau Book(s) published by Esther Patkau
– Postcards addressed to Rudolf Friesen, Joanna Friesen, and W. & K. Friesen
– Obituaries: David Petkau, Katie Suderman, Jacob Friesen, Helene Harder, Helen (Wiens) Patkau, Alice (Patkau) Rempel, Henry Wiens (story), Patricia Marie (Unruh) Tilton
– Funeral bulletins: Justin Henry Froese, Henry N. Peters, Maria Pauls, George J. Rempel, Cornelius Penner, Helena Paetau, Abram H. Groening, Helen Heese, Peter Froese, Helen Harder
– Funeral Directors Statement of Death for Henry John Patkau
– Wedding and anniversary invitations
Correspondence:
– Letters to Esther Patkau, her mother, and other family members, 1988 to 1999
– Letters from Esther Patkau to friends, 1985 to 2001
– Various letters, 1933 to 1999
Genealogies and Memoirs:
– The Martens Ancestry, 1759-1995
– Rempel Family Tree – Family of Nettie (Rempel) & Jake Petkau
– Stammbaum der Familie von Abram Petkau
– Stammbaum der Familie Petkau
– The Years in Russia – recollections of Mrs. Katarina (nee Harder) Patkau
– Mein Lebenslauf geschrieben von Helena Patkau, 1980 in Andernach, BDR
– Lebenslauf – Heinrich Patkau. Written in 1988
– Memories by Esther Patkau, Cornelius Patkau, Erwin Patkau, Henry & Frieda Peters, Henry & Mary Patkau
– Reunited by Willie Janzen
– “I sat between two of our giants” – Paetkau Reunion, August 2010
– Stories from the Life of Anna (Guenther) Wiebe, January 2013
Other:
– Butchering the Old Fashioned Way
– A Moravian Christmas by Ella Suess Winger
– The Coming of the Mennonites to Canada
– Notebook of Bernhard Doerksen, Hague, Saskatchewan, November 18, 1938 written in German script.
– Certificates: Alvena Stella Ens, Jacob J. Ens
– Photocopies of travel visas stamped in Prussia with English translation
– Life story of Menno? written in Gothic script
– Rempel, George and Tina
– Rempel, Mary-Wollf, Bernhardt and Wollf, Helena
– Peter & Elsbeth Bergen Family
– Various writings
– Family registers, etc.
– Binder with working copies of genealogies and photos for the Paethkeau books
– Patkau, Esther. J.J. Thiessen’s Ministry in Saskatoon. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, January 1979
– Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Lancaster County. Map & Visitors Guide
– Esther Patkau’s messages, 1990-1993