Mildred grew up with brother Paul and Warren (now both deceased) on the
  William Brenner farm, six miles northeast of Woodbine, and attended Lyona
  Grade School and Woodbine High School, graduaing in 1942. She studied three
  years at Tabor College, Hillsboro, where she met and married Harry Friesen
  after his graduation in 1945. They moved to Dallas, Texas, where Harry attended
  Dallas Theological Seminary, and "Millie" worked as registrar's secretary.
  While in Dallas they responded to God's call to missionary service, where upon
  their Mennonite Brethren Church asked them to help open a new work in Japan.
       Harry and Millie went to Osaka in March 1951, and have continued their
  work to the present, except for two years of doctoral study in Dallas during
  1954-56. They have seen their church grow from nothing to a well-established
  conference of 28 churches and evangelistic centers, a Christian camp, and a
  seminary where Harry is president and teaches theology. God has blessed them
  with six children, all married now but one, and eleven grandchildren. Their
  daughter, Marilyn and husband Ken Fast are missionary teachers in Sao Paula,
  Brazil. Their son, Steve and family are fellow-missionaries in Yokohama, Japan.
  Grace, a nurse, is married to Dr. Eldon Steele, and lives in Tyler, Texas.
  Joyce and her husband, Jim Herrington, are pastoring a church in Omaha,
  Nebraska. Phil is a vice president of a software computer company in Louisiana,
  and Debbie is a nurse working in San Diego where husband Bill Phillips attends
  a university.   
               
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg. 77
          Submitted by Mrs. Mildred Friesen