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In memory of Jacob "Jack" KNODEL (1902-1980)
Updated November 19, 2005
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Hello, Arne and Family,
We just wanted to send a quick hello to all of you just before the Family Reunion at Emden. Unfortunately, we won't be able to come this year but I am hoping that you will all be there and will relay our message to everyone.
We wish you all a great celebration with lots of sightseeing and visiting with all the relatives. Hopefully everyone will have a great time!
I am passing this message on from Allan Knodel and his family who are planning a Knodel and Eberle Family Reunion in Canada in August, 2005. It will probably be around the middle of August. Arne, maybe you or your Father or Mother could mention this to all the people gathering in Emden so that if some of them can come, they can start thinking of it now. The Reunion will be held in Oliver, British Columbia which is in the beautiful Okanagan Valley and anyone in the Knodel or Eberle family is invited.
Allan will be writing more on this, but at least you can let people at the Family Reunion in Germany know about it now.
Hope all is well with you all. Bye for now.
Ingrid
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This website is dedicated to the memory of Jacob KNODEL (1902-1980) to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. Jack was born in Romania, 16-Mar-1902. When he died in May of 1980, Elnor Buller (wife of Edwin KNODEL) wrote the following poem:
A tribute to Jack Knodel, Mar 16, 1902 - May 14, 1980
In Cogelia, Romania, March 16, nineteen hundred and two
was born Jacob Knodel, the first born son, brand new.
Then the whole family went a new land to see
and moved one and all out to Germany.
Jack then ventured out to Canada's fair shore,
in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred, twenty-four.
With the rays of the sun beating down on his arm
he worked in the grainfields of many a farm.
But Saskatchewan could not his wandering heart tame
and in 1928 to B.C., yes to Oliver he came.
You'd find him in orchards, in mines or at logging
the only thing missing was to see him out jogging.
Vegetalbes and cantelope grew well on his land
because of the untiring labour of his busy hand.
But don't worry about him being all work and no play
for January 8, 1938, was Jack and Sarah's (Eberle) wedding day.
To add to their pleasure three lovely children came
and brightened their home, Allan, Gerald and Sandra by name.
In 1941 they purchased land next to Tuc-el-Nuit Lake
and from this rock pile proceeded and orchard to make.
Once his beach was just swamp and weeds without flower or tree
but his untiring labours created a park that is a joy to see.
But for Jack a seven and a half acre orchard was not quite enough
so you'd find him in concrete, contracting and stuff.
In the Okanagan, Kootenay, Cariboo and Similkameen
the evidence of his handiwork will a long time be seen.
His health wasn't always what we'd have wished for Jack
for several times (1959 & 1967) he suffered with heart attack.
Ill health or no, he was not to be kept down
and he'd excercise his body from his toes to his crown.
To Jack work was living and living was working
it ne'er could be said that his duty was shirking.
You never need fear of him a favour to ask,
he was never too busy to help with the task.
In his own quiet and gentle way he solidy stood
as a giant, a pillar in his whole neighborhood.
His warm and firm handclasp and his affectionate smile
made him a friend always willing to go the second mile.
Inside of him he had so much love to give
an example to us all how daily to live.
He touched many lives with his willing hands
and each one of us to him as a tribute stands.
So right to the end with his trusy shovel in hand
he worked till the Lord called him into the promised land.
Uncle Jack, you are in loving memory of
Elnor Knodel
May 18, 1980
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Family Photos
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- New arrival (233 KB)
Roger, Benjamin, Joy and Jacob
Roger St. John and wife Joy HATCHER with grandsons
- Girl's Church Group in Pfeilsdorf (64 KB)
Young Girls Church Group 1925 in Pfeilsdorf:
Frieda EBERLE (1908-2000), Frieda HILDEBRANDT (1912?-19??), Emma HILDEBRANDT (1910?-19??), Emilie Fercho (b1900), Hulde Janke, Ella Neumann; Gertrud EBERLE (1910-1995), Elizabeth FRANK, Lotte Göhrke, Sophie KNODEL (1908-2001), Olga HILDEBRANDT (1914?-19??), Martha Janke
- Dorothy's Kids at the lake in Oliver, Aug 2000 (55 KB)
Bob, Dave, Dorothy, Carol, Ron
Children of John EBERLE and Dorothy Swain
- Wedding of Alice EBERLE and Don Killian (13 KB)
Alice EBERLE
(1944-1997) and
Donald Killian
(1943-1966)
marr 18-Aug-1962 in Delia, AB, Canada
- Young Peoples Church Group in Pfeilsdorf (59 KB)
Young Peoples Church Group in Pfeilsdorf:
David Fercho, ??, Gerhardt Rotzell, Eduard KNODEL (1906-1971) Richard Rotzell (1908-1973) Joseph HILDEBRANDT (1908-19??) Gustav EBERLE (1906-1994) Samuel FRANK (b1905?) Gottlieb KNODEL (1905-1977) Friedrich Janke, Wilhelm FRANK (b1903?) Olga HILDEBRANDT (b1914?) Frieda HILDEBRANDT (b1912?) Anna KNODEL (1906-1996) Emma HILDEBRANDT (b1910?) Martha Janke, Emelia Fercho (b1900) Trudy EBERLE (1910-1995) Martha Compert, Wilhelm KNODEL (1908-1957) Sophie KNODEL (1908-2001) Frieda EBERLE (1908-2000) Lotte Göhrke, Elizabeth FRANK (b19??) Ludwig KNODEL (1910-1996)
- A trip through the past... (68 KB)
Dorothy (Swain) Eberle and Allan KNODEL studying the Swain family history book prepared by Dorothy's son James EBERLE.
- Wedding of Gotthilf FRANK and Emma Jadischke (68 KB)
Gotthilf FRANK (1900-1981) and Emma Jadischke
(1906-1982) marr 4-Jun-1929 in Eatonia, SK (marriage arranged by Simon Eberle and Mr Siefried)
- Great grandparents Schmidt (23 KB)
Wilhelm SCHMIDT (b 1854 in Tulcea, Romania, d 1939 in Neuhoff Kriese Lötzen, E Preussen) and Anna Marie ADAM (b 1860 in Romania, d 1932 in Neuhoff Kriese Lötzen, E Preussen)
- EBERLE Descendants at the lake in Oliver, Aug 2000 (86 KB)
Mostly the family of John EBERLE and Dorothy Swain
Gerald, Sarah, Gladys, Carmen, Bob, ?, Ashley, ?, Shelley, Lydia, Dorothy, Dave, Greg./Jim, Lorraine, Sandra, Allan, ?, visitor, Scott Carol, ?, Ron./Brooks, Byron, Benton, Dawson plus the dogs Muffin, ?, lab, Ninja
- Photo Ancestral Chart (333 KB)
This ancestral chart with pictures is courtesy of Brian Knodel
- Gustav Eberle (1906-1994) (19 KB)
Gustav EBERLE, Pfeilsdorf, W Prussia. Is this photo at his confirmation?
- Gus & Millie Knodel in the 1970's (27 KB)
Gottlieb "Gus" KNODEL (1905-1985) and Emelia "Millie" EBERLE (1907-1984)
- Two EBERLE'S at Knodel Reunion in Oliver BC, 1995. (58 KB)
Why were this brother and sister from Germany, whose surname is EBERLE, at the 1995 KNODEL Family Reunion? Well, their father is Gerhardt EBERLE, and Gerhardt's father was Gustav EBERLE (1906-1994) whose parents were Friedrich EBERLE (1871-1945?) and Friedricke KNODEL (1872-1945).
- Sophie Knodel 1929 Calgary (45 KB)
Sophie KNODEL 1929, Calgary AB
- *Map1 Where is Oliver? Western Canada (8 KB)
Oliver is in the South Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, near the US border with Washington State
- Eberle Family Reunion Invitation (228 KB)
Invitation to the Eberle Family Reunion in Oliver, BC, Canada, August 4 and 5, 2001.
- Jacob Knodel and Katherina Reister Family (45 KB)
This photo is of the Jacob KNODEL and Katherina Reister family, taken about 1926 in Pfeilsdorf, Germany, probably for the confirmation of
their daughter Anna.
Standing in the back row: Gottlieb KNODEL (1905-1977) m to Margarete Piotrowski, Elizabeth KNODEL
(1905-1944) m to ? Minder, Friedricke KNODEL (1901-1976) m (1935) to Robert Klut, Wilhelm KNODEL (1908-1957) m (1938) to Anna Roeske, Anna
KNODEL (1911-2000) m (1936) to Herbert Hauser. Parents are seated: Jacob
KNODEL (1866-1959) and Katherina Reister (1868-1945) married about 1892.
- *Map2 Where is Oliver? Map of BC (18 KB)
Oliver is in southern British Columbia
- Frieda Knodel (born 1912) (57 KB)
Visiting Westbank, BC, in the Okanagan, October 2000.
- Familientreffen 1998 in Ahlden/Aller (63 KB)
Knodel family members in Germany at 1998 reunion
- *Map3 Where is Oliver? Detail (231 KB)
Detailed road map of the Thompson-Okanagan area
- Black Sea Map (53 KB)
Old map of the Black Sea area
- New addition to the Main family (207 KB)
Brian, Michelle, Ben and Jakob Thomas Dudley MAIN
- *Map4 Where is Oliver? Oliver Map (101 KB)
Map showing Oliver area
- Proud Gramma and Auntie (182 KB)
Gramma Joy with daughter Danielle and grandsons Benjamin and Jacob Thomas
- Jack Knodel (1902-1980) in about 1920 (23 KB)
This photo was taken in about 1920, when Jack was about 18 years old. According to his sister Frieda, he was leaving home to study farming on a state farm.
- Dorothy Eberle (Swain) and her kids Aug 2000 (74 KB)
Family of John EBERLE an Dorothy Swain
Dave, Ron, Dorothy, Carol, Bob
(all children thinking of brother James in Toronto)
- Elnor's poem (128 KB)
A tribute to Jack Knodel, Mar 16, 1902 - May 14, 1980, by Elnor Buller, wife of Edwin Knodel.
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