Franz and Maria (Leiding) Derksen
with one child, brother Isaac Derksen and

father David Derksen.
Franz came from Southwest of Plum
Coulee where father David had

homesteaded. He worked for Schram’s
Massey Harris implement dealership,
which he eventually purchased. He owned
one of the first automobiles in the village
and in 1910 made the news when he
motored to Haskett and back in one day.
He served on the village council and as a
school trustee. The Derksen family arrived
in Canada in 1880. 1901 Census, 5—8;
Brown, 34; Chmnicle, 24 November 1910.

Isaac D. and Maria Doell with two
children.
Henry D. and Elizabeth Doell with three
children.

Isaac, a general store clerk, was the son of
Daniel Doell of Hoffnungsfeld. Henry was
Isaac’s brother. A Heinrich Doell is listed
as a founding member of the Winkler
Bergthaler Church but the Bergthaler
Church history indicates that by 1905 he
had become a Sommerfelder. It is unclear
if this is the same H.D. Doell who worked
for Peter Atkins in Morden before he
moved to Winkler where he held a number
of positions in lumberyards and elevators.
He was also a sometime correspondent to
Der Nordwesten. The Daniel Doell’s
moved to Washington either before 1888
when they no longer are found in the
Hoffnungsfeld records or, according to
another source, in 1903. 1901 Census, 5-
30 and 8—31; VC, 150—151;Dyck, 209; WB,
238.

Jacob E. Doerr

Doerr was an Ontario born German
financial agent who taught school in
Burwalde before becoming a land agent in
Winkler. Howard Winkler recalls visiting
his father Valentine’s lumberyard where
Doerr was the agent. 1901 Census, 6—20;
HW; Nordwesten, 7 February 1901.

Jacob B. and Maria (Penner) Dyck with
six children ranging in age from 2 to 15.

186

John B. and Helena (Kroeker) Dyck
with one child.

Wilhelm Dyck

Heinrich S. Voth

Peter P. and Kattie Dyck with one child.
Jake K. Riesen

Jacob was born 1887 in Nieder Chortitza
and came to Canada in 1875. He lived in
Schanzenfeld where he homesteaded the
NE 28-2—4. He went into partnership with
Wm. Peters in the Winkler Milling Co. in
1892. Jacob sold his interest in the mill
after three years and went into a blacksmith
and woodworking business. John and Jacob
became partners in a lumber business. He
became a Bergthaler in 1898 and then an
MB. in 1908 in Herbert, Sask. in the same
year that Maria died. He must have
returned to Winkler since he was a member
of the MB. Church in Winkler.

John B.’s wife was the sister of AA...
Kroeker and granddaughter of Jacob Wiens
of Hoffnungsfeld. The Kroekers were
baptized in the MB. church on July 1, 1894.
John B. and Helena were married in the
Winkler Bergthaler Church in 1895 because
the MB. did not have a building in Winkler
at the time. John B. was an implement
dealer and at various times was involved in
a number of other partnerships: The
Winkler Mill, Hepburn Trading Co., Dyck
and Kroeker, and then J .B. Dyck and Son, a
grocery store. Dyck and Kroeker purchased
the Peter Goertzen general store when he
was unable to survive as a Reinlander
merchant. He also purchased the J .J .
Loewen warehouse, which he rented to the
Union Bank, of which he was a director. He
lost 4 years of rent when the bank was
robbed in 1920. He was also a major
depositor in the Dominion Ticket Co.,
losing $5000 he had on deposit there when
they went bankrupt. He was also a SS.
Superintendent (1889—1915), a deacon in
the MB. Church and a founder of the
Winkler Bible Institute and Bethel Hospital.

Wilhelm was a student boarding at the John
B. Dycks and likely a sibling. Heinrich S.
Voth is the son of the itinerant minister
Heinrich Voth who is credited with starting