Biographical Sketch

Maria (or Marie or Manja) Federau, daughter of Jacob and Maria Federau, was born in 1894 in Marjanovka, Ukraine. She received secondary education at Neu-Halbstadt. She was converted at the age of thirteen and after that she taught Sunday School in her church. For four years, she also taught a class of poor children without receiving any monetary compensation. In 1924, she immigrated to Canada, settling in Kitchener, Ontario, where she worked in a sewing factory for 38 years. She was a faithful church member, teaching Sunday School, singing in the choir, corresponding with numerous missionaries, and sewing many blankets.

Gradually, she lost her eyesight, and finally she moved first to the Pinehaven Nursing Home in Kitchener and, in 1987, to Tabor Manor, St. Catharines. She died on 26 September 1995.