1951 – THE YEAR The world was recovering from World War II. Many countries witnessed an economic boom during…
What follows was written by Opa for his grandchildren, as you will see while reading the testimony. However, since it…
Among the treasures Oma kept and passed on was a collection of articles, poems and handwritten letters gathered or written…
Oma did not indicate on her typewritten paper for what class she wrote the treatise below while a student at…
Throughout her long lifetime, Oma served in many different ways in her roles as a Christian, wife, mother, church member,…
She didn’t mention it often, but when Oma was a student in the St. Paul Bible Institute, one of the…
The last article, dealing with the “mountain” and the lake of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, ended with the “mountain” having been…
Many of us have been to Mountain Lake, Minnesota. My siblings and I have been there often, mostly during our…
Isaac I. Bargen was born in November, 1857, in one of the villages of the Mennonite Molotschna colony in South…
(Note: this is the final installment of the Olfert’s account of their Montana homesteading experience. I hope it has been…