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Eugene L. Janzen © Haigler-Pierce Funeral Home 04-2013 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Eugene L. Janzen, 82, passed away Saturday, April 20, 2013 at his home in Fairview, OK. He was born November 21, 1930 near Hooker, OK, the first child of Arthur and Sarah (Voth) Janzen. They moved west and he grew up in northern California near Orland where he graduated from the local schools. He continued his education at the Pacific Bible Institute in Fresno, CA where he met his wife Lillian Wichert. They were married in 1954. He enrolled as a student at the Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary which prepared him for Christian ministry. While studying, he served as pastor of a small church in Fresno. They then moved to Los Ebanos, TX, a small community on the Rio Grande River, where he pastored the church and assisted in the parochial grade school. Three years later they were called to serve as missionaries in a rural area in the state of Durango in Mexico. He dearly loved and appreciated the people he lived with, served, taught and mentored in the town of Nuevo Ideal and in the surrounding villages. In 1968, the family returned to the United States and made their home in Fairview, OK where he began his business in carpets and flooring to support his family.
Gene was actively involved in his church, teaching Bible classes, serving as deacon and in other committees. He loved spending time with family and friends. He often took the family camping and enjoyed motorcycle trips traveling together with friends.
Gene is survived by his wife Lillian of almost 59 years and their four daughters, one son, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. They are daughter Lynette Lucas and husband Loren and their three sons, of Johnson, KS; daughter Susan Morris and her two sons of Tulsa, OK; son, Steven Janzen and wife Mary and their two daughters of Elmira, ON, Canada; daughter Ann Yarrow and husband Jeff and their daughter and two sons of Wichita, KS and youngest daughter Lois Enomoto and husband Kazuhiro and their daughter and son of Fresno, CA; two sisters, Josie Doerksen and husband Vern of Globe, AZ and Virginia McCarthy of Shingletown, CA;
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Fairview with Pastor James Suderman and Pastor Marlin Hiett officiating. Interment will follow in the South Menonnite Brethren Cemetery under the direction of Pierce Funeral Home, Fairview. Viewing will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home and prior to the service at the church. Memorial donations may be made to the Mennonite Brethren Church for mission work in the country of Thailand with the funeral home serving as custodian at P.O. Box 15, Fairview, OK 73737.
Condolences may be made online at Haigler-Pierce Funeral Home.
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