Martha Friesen Rachui

1919 - 2007

• Born	4 Jan 1919	Millet, AB, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Died	23 Dec 2007	Taber, AB, Canada
  Buried	28 Dec 2007	Taber, AB, Canada
  Person ID	I10542	Iris Family
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	Adolf Rachui,   b. 23 Aug 1870, Pawlow, Luzk, Volhynia ,   d. 16 Oct 1939, Pendryl, AB, Canada
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Justine Kitzmann,   b. 3 Jun 1880, Antonijew, Tuczyn, Volhynia ,   d. 21 Apr 1942, Pendryl, AB, Canada
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	19 Apr 1914	Strathcona, AB, Canada
  Family ID	F2112	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Gottlieb Janke
  Married	24 Jan 1937
  Family ID	F3921	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Lorenz Gagnier,   d. 1959
  Married	1952	New Westminster, BC, Canada
  Family ID	F3922	Group Sheet

  
  

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  Martha was born January 4, 1919 at Millet, Alberta the daughter of Adolf and Justine Rachue. At the age of six, the family moved to Pendryl, Alberta where she grew up. Martha and her husband Gus moved to British Columbia in 1943. They were separated a few years later. Martha worked as a nanny until she met Larry Gagnier. They spent seven years together until he passed away in 1959. She worked in a poultry plant in Surrey, British Columbia until 1965 when she moved to Edmonton where she worked for Canada Packers Poultry Plant for the next eighteen years until her retirement in 1983. Martha loved to play bingo and was able to enjoy doing this for many years until she decided to move to Taber in 1996 to be closer to her brother Bill and her niece Roberta. She just recently moved into Clearview Lodge in October but suffered a fall in November when she was hospitalized.