Aganetha Harder was born on 21 March 1899, in Manitoba, Canada. She married Jacob J. Penner on 1 August 1916, in Gouldtown, Morse No. 165, Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 17 April 1985, in Herbert, Morse No. 165, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 86.
English: occupational name from an agent noun derived from Middle English hardenen ‘to make hard’ (Old English heardian), denoting a hardener of metals (used by Chaucer) and elsewhere a baker who hardened dough with heat.
North German and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Harther, composed of the elements hard ‘strong, hard’+ heri ‘army’.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called with this word.
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