Bethania Home for Aged, ca. 1959 Scan courtesy Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen X-31.1, Box 17/23

Mennonite Benevolent Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba, was organized in 1946 for the purpose of owning and operating Bethania Home for the Aged and Infirm. It has some 200 members, all from Mennonite groups in Manitoba of Russian Mennonite background, and elects 12 directors who in turn appoint an executive council to operate Bethania.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1106. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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