Mennonite Genealogy with Michael Penner

Peter L. Dueck (1842-1887)

Mennonitische Rundschau, Feb 2, 1887, page 1 (translated into English)

Hochstadt Post Office, Gruenfeld, January 20^th.  The Lord, who has life and death in His hand, was pleased to retrieve our dear and widely known friend Peter L. Dueck through death, on January 15^th, from here into a better dwelling where sorrows and pains will be no longer.

     On January 2^nd, he became ill with rheumatism, which continued some days putting him in great pain such that he was not able to move. He improved somewhat, however, on the 15^th, at five in the morning his illness worsened greatly and in the evening at six o'clock his soul departed from his suffering body. He was aged 44 years and 3 months. A deeply mournful wife, two children out of one and five children out of a second marriage are the bereaved. The funeral took place January 19^th, with numerous people participating, who were in all nearly 150 persons.

   J.R.D

 

Preservings, June 1997, part 2, page 54

Peter L. Dueck was a man of many talents. He was hired as a teacher, he farmed, became a day labourer, freighted building wood from Winnipeg with oxen, and finally his main occupation became the bookselling business. He supplied some 60 villages, on two Reserves, mostly with German books. He also served the church as song leader. On January 1, 1887 on the 16th anniversary of Peter and Susanna’s wedding, returning on foot from a visit to the neighbour’s, he became quite ill. When he arrived at home, he had to go to bed. His condition worsened, so that eventually a doctor was called who gave the family hope for his recovery. However, this was not to be. After an illness of two weeks, Susanna’s husband died on January 15, 1887 at the age of 44.

 

Storm and Triumph, by Delbert Plett, page 195

Peter L. Dueck (1842-1887) was a Kleine Gemeinde school teacher in the village of Gnadenthal, Molotschna. He later became the first known teacher in Friedendsfeld, Borosenko.

 

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