Tagle, Alfredo (1925-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Aug 13 p. 11

Birth date: 1925

text of obituary:

Longtime Texas MB pastor dies at 82

Alfredo Tagle, Jr., who pastored Mennonite Brethren congregations in South Texas from 1956 to 2006, died June 12 at the age of 82.

Tagle came to faith in Christ through the ministry of MB missionary Alvin Neufeld, according to Christian Leader, the U.S. Mennonite Brethren magazine. He studied at Rio Grande Bible Institute in Edingburg, Texas, and then worked as a truck driver and migrant worker. When Neufeld told him about a pastoral vacancy in an MB congregation, he jumped at the opportunity.

Tagle served five congregations in the Latin America MB District Conference: La Joya, La Grulla, Garciasville, Los Ebanos and Mission. He helped shepherd the LAMB Conference through its days of dependence on the South District Conference, the district that planted Spanish-speaking churches in South Texas as a home mission project, to independence. He served on the U.S. Conference Board of Church Ministries.

He is survived by his wife, Ofella; two sons, Benjamin and Moises; two daughter, Elizabeth and Ruth; and 12 grandchildren.