Educator.
Born at Horndean on 9 September 1902, son of Gerhard Paul Neufeld (1858-1930) and Anna Kroeker (1861-1914), he completed his schooling and attended teacher training. His career in education included working as a teacher at Langevin School (1923-1925), Rosewell School (1926-1927), and Winkler School (1939-1944), and was Principal of Kane School (1944-1946), Thames South School (1954-1955), and Schanzenfeld School (1967-1968). He married Sarah Wiebe (1912-1992) and they had at least one child, Loretta Anne Neufeld (1937-1999, wife of ? Janzen). He died at Winkler on 16 November 1988 and was buried in the Winkler Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Nicolai G. Neufeld], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
Winkler Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 26 March 2026
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