Abram M. Penner

Mennonite Genealogy with Michael Penner

Abram M. Penner

Abram M. Penner and his wife Agnes moved to the Landmark area from Linden, Alberta in 1907. They settled along an oxcart trail leading from Giroux to Winnipeg. The land they settled on was all swamp and bush. Through the years a total of 960 acres were cleared and farmed. A retail lumber yard was also established as a joint business venture with the saw mill that the family operated at Falcon Lake.

Abram served on the Municipality of Tache Council for one term and on the school board for some twenty years. He took a keen and an active part in all community efforts.

Abram and Agnes had twelve children and sixty grandchildren. Four sons were poultry farmers and one daughter also made her home on a farm in the Landmark area. One son, Aron, was a grain farmer and owned a road construction outfit. One served on the council of the Tache Municipality for some twenty years, on the Hanover hospital board for ten years and also with the Emergency Measures Organization since its inception. Another was instrumental in organizing the local Chamber of Commerce and served as president the first term.

Source: 100 Years in Our Community, p. 43.

"Sunnyslope, Alberta. Today, October 6, here in the assembly two souls were received into the fellowship by baptism and the laying on of hands. They were the married couple, Abraham M. Penners. He is the son of the brother and sister Martin Penners and she is the daughter of the brother and sister Gerhard Giesbrechts, both from Greenland, Manitoba. May the Lord bless and strengthen the common bond between them and their Lord, faithfully encouraged to the end."

Botschafter der Wahrheit, Nov. 1907, p. 84

Abram M. Penner, Lorette, starb Donnerstag nach etwa einer Woche Krankheit im Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg an Zuckerkrankheit. Sein Alter kam auf 69 Jahre, 6 Monate zu stehen. Er wurde in Blumenort, Manitoba, geboren. Seine Eltern waren Martin Penners, die in den 90ger Jahren nach der Greenland Gegend zogen. Abram Penner war ein erfolgreicher Farmer und Geschaeftsmann in der Prairie Rose Gegend. Durch sein freundliches Benehmen und reelle Kundenbedienung hat er sich waehrend seiner Lebenszeit viele Freunde unter der mennonitischen, franzoesichen und englischen Bevoelkerung erworben.

Das Begraebnis wurde Montag nachmittags in er Evangelischen Mennonitischen Kirche in Prairie Rose abgehalten. Er war Mitglied dieser Lokalgemeinde.

Steinbach Post, June 3, 1953, p. 4

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