Jacob Prohl was born January 8, 1928 just south of the Hamlet of Sunnyslope, Alberta to Cornelius and Katherine (Ratzlaff) Prohl. He passed away peacefully on August 20, 2016 at Three Hills Continuing Care at the age of 88. Jake went to Salem school and grew up on the farm. He was a hard worker from a very young age - catching gophers to sell their tails to the county office for 1 cent per tail, cleaning chicken houses for the neighbors and running the horse mower. He did some raking and hauling hay, milked cows by hand for the neighbors, until milking machines came out, which was great'. Harnessing the horses for haying or loading the manure spreader by hand with a manure fork was just part of a day's work. He never ran out of work. When harvest started he could be found in the grain bin shoveling with a spade to keep it leveled out. At a young age Jake started helping out with stooking and hauling hay with a team of horses. When the war broke out in 1939 Jake was only 11 years old. In 1944 he started driving a team of horses, hauling bundles into the threshing machine. He would get up at 5 AM to harness the horses, go have breakfast and start threshing by 7 AM. Sure got tired by the time night came'. They threshed until 7 PM, came in for supper, tended to the horses - fed and watered them - then off to bed in the bunk house. Then in 1945 he started working for another neighbor, Ken Taylor, driving a model D John Deere. It felt good to be able to drive a tractor and drive a grain truck, picking up grain off the combine. Never had a grain auger like we have today, let alone a hoist on the truck'. Jake met the love of his life, Doris Piepke through Paul and Alvina Weigum. They courted for a couple of years and they were married April 8, 1953. They moved to a farm north of Allingham, lived in Sunnyslope and eventually bought their first piece of land west of Sunnyslope, where they raised their family of 11 children. They were married 59 years. He worked hard at farming to support his family. Jacob leaves to mourn his surviving children: Lloyd (Cathy), Beiseker; Carol Russel, Ontario; Ron, Sunnyslope; Judy (Dale) Seiler, Beiseker; Barry (Tara), Didsbury; Debbie Kissinger, Calgary; Darcy, Sunnyslope; Bruce, Sunnyslope; Shelly (Jim) Hutchings, Innisfail. Jake also had 13 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Jake was predeceased by his wife, Doris (July 4, 2012), sons Lyle (February 16, 1977) and Bob (March 1, 2010) and granddaughter Sharon (April 28, 2012). Memorial donations may be made to Heart and Storke Foundation of Alberta or Alberta Diabetes Foundation. Funeral Service 1:00 pm Thursday, August 25, 2016 Linden Mennonite Brethren Church Centre Street North Linden, Alberta, Canada T0M 1J0