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Marriage of Mary Fast and John Letkeman

This excerpt was taken from  Chronicles and Geneology of the Abram Edmund Klassen Family,  compiled by Isaac P Klassen, David Friesen and Helena Braun, published January 1988.  Any significant additions/edits have been added in  Italics .  Spelling and grammar has been corrected without notation. Maria (Mary) Fast and Johann (John) Letkeman were married at Holdfast, Saskatchewan on November 21, 1926  where they first met.  They farmed at Holdfast, then at Stoughton.  Just before the drought years of the 1930's, they gave up on southern Saskatchewan and took up a homestead at Northvale, Saskatchewan where they farmed for 34 years.  Northvale no longer exists as a community.  It was located east of Mullingar.   With much courage and a lot of hard work they raised their eight children and saw to it that they all got an education.  In 1964, John and Mary moved to Waldheim, and, so writes their daughter, "even then they were no...

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