Harry Klassen was my (Bob Klassen) father. He was born in 1923 and passed away in 2008. His life spanned being born in Southern Russia (now Ukraine), emigrating as a toddler with his family, being raised on a farm near Dundurn, Saskatchewan, volunteering as a Canadian soldier in WW 2, getting educated at the University of Toronto and then starting a family in Sarnia, Ontario. In 1994, he wrote the following summary of the first forty years of his life.