Who's Who at Wauwatosa Bible Chapel, WI

• Wauwatosa Bible Chapel, Milwaukee, WI +1866-1884; (Grant-eb) 1884-1933; (OB) 1933-present

Families

Loizeaux family

• Paul Jacques Loizeaux (m. 1868 Vinton, IA)
• Celia Adelaide Sanderson Loizeaux 1866-1868 (1842-1908)

married Paul Jacques Loizeaux in 1868 and relocated to his home in Vinton, Iowa, as per Help and Food obit for Celia from 1908. She introduced her husband to the PB in 1870 via a conference at Guelph where he met JND. He founded the publisher by his surname (Loizeaux Bros.).

McCully family

• Theophilus Edward "Theo" McCully, Sr. (b. 1900 Given, Mahaska, IA - d. 1965 Wheaton, DuPage, IL), son of Thomas McCully (b. 1871 Dalmellington, Ayr, Scot. - d. 1947 Davenport, IA) & Phoebe Jane Edward McCully (b. 1867 Beacodn, IA; m. 1898 @ Eddyville, IA; d. 1964 Davenport, IA).
  • Thomas was in fellowship with the open brethren assembly in Des Moines, IA (1906-1946) and emigrated in 1900, initially settling at Albia, IA, and later served as vice-president of District council 13 of the United Mine Workers of America.
  • Theo served as executive secretary of the Christian Business Men's Committee International (1955-1965). Sales mgr @ Ungles Baking Co., Des Moines until 1940.
  • Theo had one sibling, Margaret Ann McCully Livingston (b. 1902 Buxton, Monroe, IA - d. 1978 Starke, Bradford, FL, who married Theodore Arthur Livingston (b. 1902 Albia, IA - d. 1977 Starke, FL), son of Robert Dixon Livingston (b. 1863 Bathgate, West Lothian, Scot. - d. 1942 Des Moines, IA) & Margareta Ann "Maggie" Tovrea Livingston (b. 1865 Beacon, IA - d. 1923 Albia, IA).
• Lois Catherine Green McCully (b. 1901 Centerville, Appanoose, IA - d. 1993 Tacoma, Pierce, WA), daughter of John Daniel Green (b. 1865 PA - d. 1928 Des Moines, Polk, IA) & Jane White Green (b. 1864 Dalry, Ayr, Scot.; m. 1887 What Cheer, IA; d. 1952 Des Moines, IA)
  • Peggy Louise McCully Erickson (b. 1923 San Francisco, CA - d. 2002 King Co., WA). Husband: William Arthur "Bill" Erickson (b. 1921 Milwaukee, WI - d. 2018 Des Moines, IA), son of Edward Erickson (b. 1893 MI - d. 1965) & Amanda Elsa Ottilia Kimpel Erickson (b. 1895 Seymour, Outagamie, MS - d. 1992 Milwaukee, WI). Bill Erickson grad Moody Bible Institute. Merchant Marine @ WWII. Founder of Evergreen Bible Chapel, Federal Way, WA. Admin of Park of the Palms.
  • Theophilus Edward "Ed" McCully, Jr. (b. 1927 Des Moines, IA - d. 1956 Napo Pastaza, Ecuador). Killed with Jim Elliot, Peter Fleming, Nate Saint & Roger Youdarian.
  • Capt. / Dr. John Thomas "Jay" / "J.T." McCully (b. 1930 Des Moines, IA - d. Dec. 30, 2021 Des Moines, WA). Grad 1952 @ Wheaton College; 1956 @ Marquette Univ., Milwaukee as an Ob-Gyn, serving at Fort Sill, OK 1956-1965+. Enlisted in the Army after medical school, which stationed him in Colorado, Hawaii, Oklahoma & Washington. Founder @ South Seattle Women's Clinic. Retired 1989. 1st wife (1951, met @ Wheaton College): Janet Christine Rust McCully (b. 1930 Chicago, IL - d. 1996), daughter of James Edmund Rust (b. 1898 Chicago, IL - d. 1988 Tacoma, Pierce, WA) & Clara Martha Johnson Rust (b. 1902 Chicago, IL - d. 1989 Seattle, WA); 2nd wife (2000): Betty Danenhour Lockhart-McCully. Memorial @ Des Moines Gospel Chapel, WA.

Kroonemeyer family

• Willard Merril Kroonemeyer (1901-1985 Milwaukee, WI), son of Jan Jans "John" Kroonemeyer (b. 1870 Netherlands - d. 1950 Fellows, CA) & Maria Everdina Hoffman Kroonemeyer (b. 1870 Milwaukee, WI - d. 1940 Fond du Lac, WI). Christened at Berean Presby. 1918-1920, Willard resided at the YMCA in Sioux City, IA and worked as a meter reader for the city utility company.
  • John Kroonemeyer served 53 years as a Presbyterian pastor in several churches in the Coulee region, starting with New Amsterdam (1904+), then La Crosse, Mindoro, Holmen, West Salem, La Crescent, then Fellows, CA (1947-1950). He was orphaned at the age of 12, and in a home for children he "became interested in gardening and flowers. Through this talent he was one of six to be chosen to come to the U.S., landing at Grand Rapids, Mich," at the age of 17. When he was 20, he served with the U.S. Cavalry until he was 23, at a fort in Montana. His first wife, Mary, was daughter of his landlady. Ordained as an evangelist in 1897. "As a 'spiritual gardener' he was known for his kindness, faith and understanding".
• Esther Elizabeth Knippel Kroonemeyer (b. 1906 Milwaukee, WI; m. 1934 @ Milwaukee, WI; d. 1988 Waukesha Co., WI), daughter of William Albert Knippel (b. 1875 Milwaukee, WI), a carpenter, and Mary Anna Bolliger Knippel (b. 1877 Chicago, IL).

Schwerdfager family

Ida was raised Lutheran, but got saved and came into fellowship with the Grants about 1903, and was teaching a S.S. class by 1905. She met her widowed husband from Osgoode, ON thru a Grant laboring brother who recommended them to one another, which motivated him to take a train from Osgoode to Milwaukee to meet her, and they married within two weeks, settling in Osgoode. He had two children from his first marriage who both died of TB, and he and Ida had one daughter. Ida and her daughter came into fellowship with the TW's in 1935 where her daughter met her husband. Ida's photo is from about 1910.

• Ambrose Schwerdfager 1913 (1854-1929)
• Ida Knippel Schwerdfager 1903-1913 (1873-1953)

Sources

• Ancestry.com
• Philip Bertram Allan 9-27-25 via FB