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Melvin Jacob Loewen, born 1925/December/09 in Steinbach,Manitoba,Canada. Parents were Jacob T. and Margaret (Friesen) Loewen who graduated from the highest school in their community: grade three primary school. They could read and write in German and became conversant in English as the community expanded contact with neighboring villages and through shopping trips to nearby Winnipeg. Jcob T. was an entrepreneur who, together with an older brother, did sawmilling in winter, road contruction in summer and commercial threshing in the fall. He gradually developed his specialty in moving dwellings,barns, heavy equipment, large gasoline storage tanks and even tall commercial grain elevators. On several occasions he retrieved large caterpillar tractors which had fallen through the ice when crossing northern lakes. Melvin J. and his older brother C. Wilbert grew up in this family that enjoyed tough challenges. They both became foremen of crews and one summer surpised their parents - who were travelling in Europe - by undertaing large contracts of moving a complete construction village as well as moving twelve grain elevators in western Canada. But further education beckoned the two boys as well as their younger sister Emmeline.