Who's Who at Arnstein Gospel Hall, ON

Arnstein Gospel Hall, Arnstein, ON, Canada (OB) 1905-current

Early families

Foreshew family

Walter was raised at this assembly with his parents and siblings.

• Ernest Edward Foreshew +1933-1946+
• Marjorie Louise Vanmeer Foreshew +1933-1946+
  • Walter Foreshew 1933-1946+

Sommacal family

• Marco Sommacal
• Mary Sommacal
  • Moses Sommacal
  • Louisa Sommacal
  • Samuel Sommacal
  • Daniel Sommacal
  • Joseph Sommacal
  • John Mark Sommacal
  • Susana Sommacal
  • Adaline Sommacal

Walter also remembers Gospel meetings held at a dance hall in Port Loring, preachers would include Ernest B. Dellandrea (1914-2005) and his brother Aubrey Celesty Dellandrea (1917-2007), children of Frank Joseph Dellandrea (1890-1982) and his wife Gertrude Clara (Haufe) Dellandrea (1889-1968). Walter also recalls Wallace Dexter Cudmore (1907-1996) as another preacher.

There was also a Marco & Mary Sommacal family that had emigrated from Italy, the children included Moses, Louisa, Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, John, Susana and Adaline. It is unknown whether the entire family was involved in the assembly, but of the children, Walter remembers Samuel Frederick Sommacal (1889-1967) who the Lord led to Toronto to engage in chiropractic work, as well as John Sommacal, who briefly engaged in evangelistic work in Alberta. There was a John Mark Sommacal that was born 1894 or 1895 that was a brother of Samuel, as well as another John, 1903-1965, who was a son of Samuel’s brother Joseph. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sam lived in the Leaside area of Toronto in a home with his two single sisters Susanna and Aadline. They attended Leaside Bible Chapel after Central Hall closed. John Sommacal also lived in the area and did a small amount of itinerant preaching and evangelism.