Monthly Archives: January 1986

Anna Ethel Ratzlaff

Anna Ethel Kehler Penner was born on August 19, 1907 to Abram and Maria (S Kehler) Penner.  Anna’s  mother Maria, passed away when Anna was only one and a half years old. Her father Abram (Abraham) Henry Penner then married Katherine Kroeker Klassen on February 3, 1910. Her father passed away from Typhoid Fever  on November 19, 1920 in Medicine Hat, AB.   Anna’s step-mother Katherine then married Abram’s younger brother, Henry S. Penner in November 1921.

Anna married Herman John Ratzlaff on December 9, 1925 in Herbert, Saskatchewan. In June of 1930, a son Rayfield Glen Ratzlaff was born, and in 1932 a daughter Marilyn J. Ratzlaff completed their family. (more…)