Background
Funk was born on the Bergthal Colony, a Mennonite settlement near Mariupol, Ukraine in 1836.
Funk was born on the Bergthal Colony, a Mennonite settlement near Mariupol, Ukraine in 1836.
In 1874, bishop Gerhard Wiebe persuaded the colony to emigrate to Canada. Funk died in 1917 in Altbergthal, near Altona, Manitoba.