11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 1 of 5 AMBROSE ARCHIVES 2011-01 JEAN & MYRTLE FUNÉ FONDS May 5, 2011 Taylor Glass
11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 2 of 5 Jean and Myrtle Funé fonds. 1922-1995. 0.85 m. of textual records + 801 photographs + 3 floppy disks + 30 slides. Rev. Jean Émile Roger Funé (1902-2000) 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 1975. 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 1925. 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 1944. 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.
11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 3 of 5 CORRESPONDENCE Box 1 1. Vietnam 1936-1989 2. Cambodia 1966-1980 Box 2 Box 3 3. Letters home 1927, 1934-1937, 1938-1943, 1965 4. Letters home 1935-1938, 1940-1944, 1945 5. Letters home 1936-1938, 1940-1941 6. Letters home 1936-1937, 1940-1941 7. Various correspondents 1935, 1940-1943, 1984 8. Letters home 1935-1941 9. Letters home 1941-1946 10. Letters home 1932, 1940-1945, 1965, 1987 11. Letters home 1936, 1949-1950, 1951 12. Letters home 1949-1951, 1953 13. Letters home 1945, 1946, 1948-1950, 1951-1952, 1954 14. Letters home 1952-1953 15. Letters home 1952-1954 16. Letters home Sept. 1955- Aug. 17. Letters home Jan.-Mar. 18. Letters home Apr.-July 19. Letters home Jul.-Dec. 20. Letters home Oct. - Oct. 1957 21. Letters home Jan.-Sept. 1957 22. Letters home Oct. 1957- Apr. 1958 23. Letters home May-Oct. 1958 24. Letters home Oct. 1958- Apr. 1959 25. Letters home 1959-1960 26. Letters home 1959-1960 27. Letters home 1940-1941, 1960-1961, 1985
11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 4 of 5 28. Letters home 1963 29. Letters home 1940, 1959, 1963-1964, 1965 30. Letters home 1965-1966 Box 4 31. Myrtle Funé s letters 1933-1935 32. Myrtle Funé s letters 1933-1935 33. Myrtle Funé s letters 1934-1936 34. Correspondence with Hall family 1935 35. Correspondence with Hall family 1961-1963 36. Letters to Esther 1939-1966 37. Letters to Esther 1959-1963 38. Letters to Esther 1962-1965 Box 5 39. Miscellaneous 1936-1970 40. Circular Letters 1935-1973 41. Family/Personal correspondence 1949-1966 42. Letters and documents in French (mostly by Funés) 1950-1970 43. Miscellaneous correspondence, including correspondence with Herbert 1936-1989 and Lydia Jackson BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS 44. Curriculum vitae 1986 45. Retirement 1982 46. General 1935-1995 47. Diary (from binder) 1964- [19-- Box 6 48. Jean Funé materials collected for his 80 th birthday celebration 1982 49. Reminiscences for John Sawin s history of the C&MA mission in 1966-1977 Vietnam 50. Esther Funé 1935-1975 51. Esther and George Funé 1954-1958 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 52. Official correspondence 1930-1970 53. Government-issued identification 1922-1970 CLIPPINGS 54. Vietnam 1938-1990 55. Vietnam 1950-1975 56. Cambodia 1951-1989 57. Canada 1988 58. Photographs reproduced in periodicals [19--- [196- Box 7 59. Missions 1955-1966 60. Missionary work in Vietnam [1951-[196-61. Notable Christians 1955- [198- CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE 62. Field reports 1950-1977 63. Dalat 1959-1988 64. Québec [197-- [197-65. World reports 1981-1986 66. Massacre at Banmethuot/missionary deaths 1954-1972 67. Missions to tribes 1937-1965 MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 68. Testimonies [195--[197-
11-01 Jean & Myrtle Funé Fonds Page 5 of 5 76. Postcards 69. Bible Society pamphlets 1940-1964 Box 8 70. Refugees 1961-1987 71. Revival 1950-1988 72. Missions-general 1953-1994 73. Missions-Québec 1971-1985 74. French songbooks [19---[19-- 75. Maps [193--[196- [193--[196-77. Books 78. Radio talks 1945-1948 79. Notes for furlough talks 1949-1965 80. Miscellaneous [194-1975 PERIODICALS 81. Miscellaneous non-alliance periodicals on missions to Indochina 1975-1980 SLIDES 82. 30 slides for missions talks [196-[198 PHOTO ALBUM 83. Photos of family, groups, and mission activities, 1957