Private service will be held with interment at Winkler Cemetery. Viewing will be from 3:30PM-7:30PM on Wednesday April 21, 2021 at Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler. Donations may be made in Lena's memory to Service in Mission (SIM)
Lena Neufeld (nee Penner)
1927 ~ 2021
Lena Neufeld was born on July 13, 1927, enroute from Russia to Canada, the fourth child in the Henry and Lena Penner family that would eventually welcome twelve children – six boys and six girls. Her family’s first home was in southeastern Saskatchewan, near Weyburn. She grew up during the Depression. That gave her a lifelong unwillingness to ever waste anything. It also made her very grateful for her very hard-working parents. “We never knew that we were poor,” she said. “We were well fed, well clothed and well cared for.” In Mom’s mind, one of the greatest privileges of her life was her education – her opportunity to complete high school at Rosthern Junior College in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, and then to attend Manitoba Normal School in Winnipeg to get her teacher’s training. She loved her five years of teaching, her first years teaching all eight or nine grades in a one-room school, finally teaching grade two and three in Brandon.
When she met Dad and they were married – almost on her birthday – July 12, 1952, she gave up teaching and took on the role of a farmer’s wife and, quite soon, as a mother of two children, a girl and a boy. “What more could you ask for?” she would say. Two was the perfect number for her. She worked very hard alongside Dad. She helped in the barn and in the field until we as children were able to help. Even then she often lent a hand when needed. She had a large garden, pickling and preserving cooking and baking to provide for her family.
And she invested in us, her children. She would help us with our spelling, and reading homework, even helping with French, which she did not speak. We corrected her pronunciation and then spelled the word in French.
Mom had very good health until the last few years, spending much of her last three months in the hospital. She passed away peacefully in her sleep into her forever home in heaven with her heavenly Father the morning of Monday April 19, 2021.
Left to remember her are her daughter, Lorna Jacobson (Tim), her son, Gerald Neufeld (Bev), grandchildren, Heather (Elias) with Caleb, Sophia, and Lucas), Bethany (Jason) with Grant, Nathan (Allison) with Liam and Isla, Juanita (Lukas) with Anthony, Aimee, and Annabelle, Jonathan (Kelly) with Elise and Annora, Kevin (Kristina) with Sienna and Everly, and Timothy (Alyson). She also leaves to remember her one older sister, three brothers, and several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law.
Special thanks to Dr. Klassen and the nursing staff at Boundary Trails Health Centre. Donations may be made in Lena’s memory to SIM Canada 10 Huntingdale Blvd. Scarborough, ON M1W 2S5.
Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler
In care of arrangements
wiebefuneralhomes.com
Lena Neufeld (nee Penner)
1927 ~ 2021
Lena Neufeld was born on July 13, 1927, enroute from Russia to Canada, the fourth child in the Henry and Lena Penner family that would eventually welcome twelve children – six boys and six girls. Her family’s first home was in southeastern Saskatchewan, near Weyburn. She grew up during the Depression. That gave her a lifelong unwillingness to ever waste anything. It also made her very grateful for her very hard-working parents. “We never knew that we were poor,” she said. “We were well fed, well clothed and well cared for.” In Mom’s mind, one of the greatest privileges of her life was her education – her opportunity to complete high school at Rosthern Junior College in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, and then to attend Manitoba Normal School in Winnipeg to get her teacher’s training. She loved her five years of teaching, her first years teaching all eight or nine grades in a one-room school, finally teaching grade two and three in Brandon.
When she met Dad and they were married – almost on her birthday – July 12, 1952, she gave up teaching and took on the role of a farmer’s wife and, quite soon, as a mother of two children, a girl and a boy. “What more could you ask for?” she would say. Two was the perfect number for her. She worked very hard alongside Dad. She helped in the barn and in the field until we as children were able to help. Even then she often lent a hand when needed. She had a large garden, pickling and preserving cooking and baking to provide for her family.
And she invested in us, her children. She would help us with our spelling, and reading homework, even helping with French, which she did not speak. We corrected her pronunciation and then spelled the word in French.
Mom had very good health until the last few years, spending much of her last three months in the hospital. She passed away peacefully in her sleep into her forever home in heaven with her heavenly Father the morning of Monday April 19, 2021.
Left to remember her are her daughter, Lorna Jacobson (Tim), her son, Gerald Neufeld (Bev), grandchildren, Heather (Elias) with Caleb, Sophia, and Lucas), Bethany (Jason) with Grant, Nathan (Allison) with Liam and Isla, Juanita (Lukas) with Anthony, Aimee, and Annabelle, Jonathan (Kelly) with Elise and Annora, Kevin (Kristina) with Sienna and Everly, and Timothy (Alyson). She also leaves to remember her one older sister, three brothers, and several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law.
Special thanks to Dr. Klassen and the nursing staff at Boundary Trails Health Centre. Donations may be made in Lena’s memory to SIM Canada 10 Huntingdale Blvd. Scarborough, ON M1W 2S5.
Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler
In care of arrangements
wiebefuneralhomes.com