No, there is a Riley Thiessen that was our house president for awhile. His parents own a chevy dealer around Rosenhort I think. He currently is our house and grounds chairmen and also a commercial aviation major.
Oh and BTW since I forgot to last time, happy B-Day!
Thanks
Most Thiessen and Nuefeld (mother's maiden name) families arrived in Canada and US from Mennonite colonies in the Ukraine, Poland, and Germany in the latter part of the 1800s.
The Mennonite Colonies were, to a great degree, closed to outsiders so there were a lot of marriages arranged between colony members which made for having a lot of relatives.
And no, I don't mean marriage between cousins--there was just a limited field to pick from. As a result, just about every Thiessen, Nuefeld, Peters, Wiebe, Isaac, and Sawatsky that I have run across is a distant cousin. I have traced my name back to a Bartolomous (?) Tiessen of Swedish birth in 1461----going back that far in closed colonies makes for a butt load of relatives and you can give Riley a "Howdy" from a (probably) very distant cousin.