Arrived on the SS Stubbenkuk from Antwerp, Belgium to Halifax, NS arr 29 Nov 1893
Minot Daily News 24 Dec 1977 RUGBY -- Mrs Ottilia Volk, 92, Rugby, died Friday in a Rugby hospital. Funeral Tueday at 10:30, Church of the Little Flower, Rugby. Burial church cemetery in the spring. Ottilia Lacher was born Aug. 18, 1885, at Odessa, Russia. She came to the United States in 1900, settling with her brother in South Dakota, and came to Berwick in 1904. She married Gabriel Volk on March 2, 1908 in McHenry County. The couple lived in the Orrin area until his death in 1929. She continued to live on the family farm there and in Orrin with her children, and lived for a time in Balta and Rugby. She sang and led the church choir at St. John's Church in Blumenfeld for several years. She boarded missionary priests from the church in her home for more than 20 years. She had spent four years in the Haaland Home at Rugby, and had been in long term care at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Rugby for the last two years. She was an active member of the Christian Mothers and Altar Society at Rugby and Orrin. Surviving: sons, Stachius, Rugby, and Peter, Orrin; daughters, Mrs George (Lena) Heintz, Mrs. Joe (Mary) Meyer, and Mrs. Joe H (Anna) Volk, all Rugby; 36 grandchildren and 68 great grandchildren.