two married sisters whom I met several times, a Mrs..Jacob Friesen (deceased Oct., 1972) fret Lena and a.Mrs. Martens from Chortitz village near Winkler, now living with auddoweddaugh— ter in Morden. A brother died in Russia of typhus in about 1923. My'step grandmothercameto live with us-following Grandfather's death remaining until the mid 1940s when she married a Mr) Nickel and moved to-Altona. Both died there, he in late 1940s and she in mid 19503 and are buried in Altona cemetery. A year after my mother died (buried in Boissevain cemetery) my father married Margarete Driediger. There are no children from this marriage. Born in Kalinowa, Russia,May24,1910, toAbran and Elizabeth Braun Driediger, she came to Canada in 1950 aboard the Beaverbrae. My grandfather on my mother's side, PETER P. LOHRENZ, was born May 18, 1868, in Schardnu or Fuarstenau, died Oct.13, 1921, Fuerstenau. He was a farmer for a long time but was forced to discontinue because of health, later Worked at whatever he could find; Mother once told me they were quite poor when she grew up, used to glean farmers' fields after the grain had been cut and removed. On-Sept.8, T898 in Fuerstenau he married my grandmother,SARANEUFELD. 'Sara was born July 22, 1869 in Wernersdorf and died May 8, 1953, in Morden. Irememberher very well and loved her dearly. Until I was four We lived in the same house, later saw her once or twice a week, and because my father and her son Peter ware close friendsgnniherves— ted together, often more frequently. she was a small, stooped, pleasant, religiouswomanemd I can still see her vividly sitting in her chair reading her Bible. She died less thanexyear after our marriage and we were teaching at Victoria.Beach. I remember clearly our driving all night to attend her funeral. . ' Sara's mother died when she was six and her father when she was t2. Her twin brother Hen— ry died young and older sisters were-already or soon thereafter married and livdingelsewhere She then lived with her aunt and uncle Sarah and Johann Balzer who had no children. Peter and Sara Lohrenz had six children. Of these, Katharina (Aunt Tina) and AGATHA ( my - mother) are dealt with elsewhere. The others Were: Peter (Sept.18, tQOG, Fuerstenau),Johann (March 29,'1908, Fuerstenau-3920, S. Russia), Jacob (Sept.9, 1910, Fuerstcnau-—Feb.27,1921, S. Russia), Daniel (Dec.29, 1913, Fuerstenaw). Johann and Jacob died in the typhus epidemic which swept S. Russia during the famine which follQWed the Russian Revolution. Uncle Peter and Uncle Dan farmed in the Wassewa district for many years with Grandmother