AMBROSE ARCHIVES JEAN & MYRTLE FUNÉ FONDS. May 5, Taylor Glass

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1 11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 1 of 5 AMBROSE ARCHIVES JEAN & MYRTLE FUNÉ FONDS May 5, 2011 Taylor Glass

2 11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 2 of 5 Jean and Myrtle Funé fonds m. of textual records photographs + 3 floppy disks + 30 slides. Rev. Jean Émile Roger Funé ( ) served as a missionary and pastor in the Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) for nearly 50 years. He was born on 18 May 1902, in Ville Favard, France to Eugène & Rachel (Gargot) Funé, and died on 5 January 2000 at his home in Hamilton, Ontario. Funé spent 42 years in Vietnam and Cambodia as a C&MA missionary and five years in Quebec as a missionary and pastor before retiring in From 1922 to1925, Jean Funé attended the Nogent Bible School in France. While at Nogent, he received a call to become a missionary to French Indochina. With this in mind, he enrolled at Nyack (N.Y.) Missionary College in He graduated in 1927 and began his service in Vietnam the following year. Funé used his French citizenship to good advantage. For example, he was instrumental in purchasing land at Dalat, on which the C&MA later built a school for missionaries children, and several other strategic properties elsewhere in the country. Jean married Myrtle Hall in 1935, and together they had two children, George Eugène (b. 25 March 1938) and Esther Marie (b. 30 September 1942). In 1944, the Funés and their children were taken to Hanoi and then Xieng-Khouang, Laos, where they were interned for eight months by the Vichy Government in In 1966, the elder Funés left an increasingly dangerous Vietnam for Cambodia, where they served until 1970, when they began their retirement in Canada. Their retirement was short-lived, as Jean became both the coordinator of C&MA work in Quebec and the pastor of Belvedere Church in Quebec City for five years. In 1975, the Funés moved to Regina, where they worked with Vietnamese refugees. The documents in this fonds were originally collected by Esther M. (Funé) Hawkins. Upon her death in 2011, Esther s husband Jack Hawkins donated the collection to Ambrose Archives. The fonds consists of correspondence, clippings, and biographical materials generated and collected by Jean Funé and his wife Myrtle. The material has been maintained in its original order. Records are arranged in series as follows: correspondence, biographical materials, official documents, clippings, Christian and Missionary Alliance, miscellaneous documents, monographs, scrapbook, photographs. Title based on the contents of the fonds. An inventory to the records is available. There are no restrictions on the use of the fonds. Further accruals are not expected.

3 11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 3 of 5 CORRESPONDENCE Box 1 1. Vietnam Cambodia Box 2 Box 3 3. Letters home 1927, , , Letters home , , Letters home , Letters home , Various correspondents 1935, , Letters home Letters home Letters home 1932, , 1965, Letters home 1936, , Letters home , Letters home 1945, 1946, , , Letters home Letters home Letters home Sept Aug. 17. Letters home Jan.-Mar. 18. Letters home Apr.-July 19. Letters home Jul.-Dec. 20. Letters home Oct. - Oct Letters home Jan.-Sept Letters home Oct Apr Letters home May-Oct Letters home Oct Apr Letters home Letters home Letters home , , 1985

4 11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 4 of Letters home Letters home 1940, 1959, , Letters home Box Myrtle Funé s letters Myrtle Funé s letters Myrtle Funé s letters Correspondence with Hall family Correspondence with Hall family Letters to Esther Letters to Esther Letters to Esther Box Miscellaneous Circular Letters Family/Personal correspondence Letters and documents in French (mostly by Funés) Miscellaneous correspondence, including correspondence with Herbert and Lydia Jackson BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS 44. Curriculum vitae Retirement General Diary (from binder) [19-- Box Jean Funé materials collected for his 80 th birthday celebration Reminiscences for John Sawin s history of the C&MA mission in Vietnam 50. Esther Funé Esther and George Funé OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 52. Official correspondence Government-issued identification CLIPPINGS 54. Vietnam Vietnam Cambodia Canada Photographs reproduced in periodicals [19--- [196- Box Missions Missionary work in Vietnam [1951-[ Notable Christians [198- CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE 62. Field reports Dalat Québec [197-- [ World reports Massacre at Banmethuot/missionary deaths Missions to tribes MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 68. Testimonies [195--[197-

5 11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 5 of Postcards 69. Bible Society pamphlets Box Refugees Revival Missions-general Missions-Québec French songbooks [19---[ Maps [193--[196- [193--[ Books 78. Radio talks Notes for furlough talks Miscellaneous [ PERIODICALS 81. Miscellaneous non-alliance periodicals on missions to Indochina SLIDES slides for missions talks [196-[198 PHOTO ALBUM 83. Photos of family, groups, and mission activities, 1957

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