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A Merry Heart - Mrs VP Wierwille

Victor Paul Wierwille

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Tweet Topic: healing, Format: mp3 Publication Date: 04-01-1984 Born to Edward and Sarah Kipp on July 15, 1915, Dorothea Sarah was the second of five children: older brother Alfred and younger siblings Deloris, Adrain and Evelyn. Dorothea grew up on a virtually self-sufficient farm in western Ohio, outside the little German community of New Knoxville. Although the family farm required demanding physical labor, it was untouched by the vicissitudes of the economy including the crash of 1929. Until Dorothea went to school in a brick, one-room school, she and her family spoke only German. The Kipp family's social life revolved around their religious life at the stately and vibrant Evangelical and Reformed Church in the center of the village. It was at church that Dorothea met the boy who would one day become her husband, Victor Paul Wierwille. After graduating from high school, Dorothea's fam

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