Rumpel Genealogy

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Ruben Arthur RUMPEL

BIOGRAPHY: **Taken from "Our Family" compiled in 1981 by Carroll BAIRD (nee RUMPEL) **
Reuben Arthur is the youngest son of Christian and Ida RUMPEL.  He completed his public school at New Ontario Country School along with his brothers and sisters.  During the war, he worked with his father on the farm during the summer months and over the winter had several jobs in the war cause.
In 1945, he started working for as an Orderly in the Regina General Hospital, DVA Wing Department of Veterans Affairs).  In 1947, he was stricken with Polio and was ill for a long time.  During his convalescence, he worked for a short time as bookkeeper for the Rural Municipality of Edenwold.
In July 1948, he returned to Regina and in October, he married Alma TIEFENBACH of McLean, Saskatchewan.
In 1951, he started working for the Government of Canada, Department of National Defence.  He served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps as an Assistant Lab Technician for 11 years at the Regina Armoury and attained the rank of Sergeant Major.
In July 1962, he transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs and served as Hospital representative and Accounts Payable Clerk.
Ruben and Alma had two sons Ricky Chris born in 1953 and David William born in 1957.
In December 1969, he accepted a transfer to the Saskatoon Branch with Department of Veterans Affairs.  It was shortly after their move to Saskatoon that Alma became ill with cancer and passed away in 1973.
In 1975, Ruben married Marjorie SIPKO in Saskatoon.  Marj was the Manageress of Rietmans in the Grovner Park Shopping Mall at the time of their meeting.  She has since retired and enjoys her free time.
In March 1979, Ruben was transferred to the Canada Pension Commission office in Saskatoon.  He is now retired after over 30 years of employment with the Government of Canada and enjoys golfing and wood working hobbies.
To date Ruben has seven grand children, Ronalda, Tiffany, Amber, Adam, Jhir-ett, Phillip David (died shortly after birth), and Abbie and one great grandchild Jonathan Taylor (Tiffany's son).
*NOTE: Reuben changed the spelling of his name to Ruben before his marriage.

Christian RUMPEL

BIOGRAPHY: **Taken from "Our Family" compiled in 1981 by Carroll BAIRD (nee RUMPEL) **
Christian RUMPEL was the second child of Andreas and Carolina RUMPEL (nee SILZER).  He came to Canada with his parents May 6, 1891 and the family took up residence in the Balgonie District.
In 1905, at the age of 20, Chris took up a homestead eight miles north of Tyvan, Saskatchewan.  He broke 20 acres, in 1906 harvested his first crop of 455 bushels of wheat, and broke another 35 acres.  In 1907 the crop was badly frozen, the wheat was number 5 and sold for 55 cents a bushel.
On January 13 1909, Chris married Ida SCHLIEVERT and they lived with her parents, Karl August and Karolina Henrietta SCHLIEVERT (nee LINDEMANN), on the farm 6 miles northwest of Balgonie.  In 1910, Chris bought the N.E. quarter of 29-18-17 from his father-in-law for $18 per acre.
In 1912, he bought the S.E. quarter of 29-18-17 from his brother-in-law, Fred BECKER, at $32 per acre with $1,000 cash and the balance in six years.  On March 8 1911, he sold his homestead in Tyvan to a neighbour for $2,000 with $300 cash and the balance in five years.
In 1917, he bought the farm of his father-in-law for $6,000.  The farm had a brick veneer house that Chris helped build in 1910.  Here they raised their family of five, raising chickens and milking cows.  They also had a large vegetable garden.  The house was a large two storey with two bedrooms on the main floor and three on the second floor with a large kitchen and living room, lots of room for their five children to roam.  There was also an icehouse to store their vegetables.
In 1948, Chris and Ida moved to the village of Edenwold and bought a neat two-bedroom house with a large yard.  Ida was an avid gardener and beautiful flowers were always a big part of the garden.  By this time three of their children, Ella, Martha, and Ed, were also living in Edenwold.  The homestead was sold to their son Herb.  On February 7 1949, Edenwold got electricity connected form Regina and in July 1953 Herb had power connected to the homestead.
In 1963, the yard work became too much for Chris and Ida so they decided to sell the property in Edenwold and move to Regina and live with their daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Carl HOLLERBAUM.  Carl and Martha had also just moved to Regina after selling Carl's garage business in Edenwold.
Both Chris and Ida were active members in the Edenwold Baptist Church.  Chris was the Sunday School Superintendent for 25 years and a Deacon of the church up until the time they moved to Regina.  In June 1964, Chris suffered a stroke and passed away June 26, 1964 in the Regina General Hospital.  Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 30 at Faith Baptist Church in Regina.  He was buried in Edenwold.
Ida lived with Carl and Martha and was still active in her garden and flowers until she suffered a slight stroke in 1979, which left her to weak to keep up the garden.  In 1980 she celebrated her 90 birthday and a tea was held on May 25, 1980 with some 70 friends and relatives dropping by, she enjoyed the day immensely.  Ida passed away on September 19, 1985 and is buried in the Edenwold cemetery.

Wilhelm TIEFENBACH

BIOGRAPHY: Wilhelm was the tenth child of 12 born to Johann and Marianne Tiefenbach (nee Stetner).  He was baptised in the Lutheran faith and confirmed in that faith as a young man.
In early October 1911, Wilhelm (17 years old) immigrated to Regina, arriving on November 2, 1911.  With him he brought his nephew, George who was only 12 years old, they were greeted by George's Grandparents.  He worked for Frank JANOTTA for a year and then for Chris WAGNER for four years.  
In 1916, he farmed north of Southey Saskatchewan, purchasing one quarter section and rented other land.  It was in the Serath area that he met Wilhelmina HEHN, and they were married in the Lutheran Church in Southey on September 11, 1917.
In 1921, they moved to McLean, he farmed for a while but his real interest was blacksmithing, which he apprenticed in Galicia.  His first blacksmith shop was in Balgonie, but he bought the blacksmith shop in McLean from Bill CARSON.  He operated the blacksmith shop until his retirement, 72 years old, in 1966.

Andreas RUMPEL

BIOGRAPHY: **This history was taken from information left by my Grandfather, Christian RUMPEL**
'On May 6, 1891, Andreas and Carolina RUMPEL arrived in Saskatchewan (before 1905 Saskatchewan was known as District of Assiniboine, North West Territories) from Austria, with four children; William, Christian, Karl, and Jacob.
The family took up a homestead northeast of Balgonie, Section 30 T.18,R.16, W 2nd S.E. 1/4 section.
In 1895, we left the homestead, which could not be sold, and moved to Texas by train and spent one summer picking cotton.  The heat was too great for us from the cold North Country so in the fall of 1896 we returned to Manitoba and lived in the town of Gretna.  The four boys all went to school that winter and in the spring of 1897, the family came back to Balgonie and to the old homestead with a debt of $160 against it for bringing us back to Canada.
This was in April 1897 and we made a new start.  Dad (Andreas) got a job on a farm at $20 a month.  I (Christian) got a summer job with a farmer at Edgeley, by the name of Joseph FESSANT, herding sheep and cattle for $5 a month the first year, $6 a month the second, and $7 a month the third year.
These were my school days and I learnt a lot too.'