Oscar Richard Blumel

When Oscar Richard Blumel was born on 5 July 1881, in Berlin, Germany, his father, Johann Friedrich Blumel, was 25 and his mother, Maria Augusta Grellert, was 22. He married Elizabeth Head on 26 February 1908, in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He immigrated to Canada in 1899 and lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1911 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 25 February 1950, in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.