"Brautpaar Krüger-Richard, Kapstadt." ("Bridal couple Krüger-Richard, Cape Town."). The couple is standing in a garden surrounded by trees and bushes. A manor house in the background. The bride is wearing a long white wedding gown and a veil. The bridegroom is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt. Bernhard Krüger (1908- ) worked as a missionary in Moravian Hill /Cape Town, Clarkson and Fairview from 1937-1964. On February 7th, 1939 he married Jeanne Marguerite (Margarete?) Jean-Richard. After her death in 1966 he married yet another Jean-Richard, Elisabeth, in Bern. Since 1969 he has been working as the bishop of the Broederkerk ("Brothers' Church") in South Africa. -- Jeanne Marguerite Jean-Richard was born in 1909 and did missionary work in South Africa after her marriage to Bernhard Krüger until her death in 1966.
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2 copies photographic prints, 6 x 5.9 cm. photographs
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