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Mario Bustos was one of four persons who were sent out in special types of mission from the Lawndale congregation in Chicago during the 1950s. His brother, Margarito (Mac), is a pastor living in Davenport, Iowa. John Ventura is a minister in Denver, Colo., and Raul Tadeo is a missionary in Mexico. | Mario Bustos was one of four persons who were sent out in special types of mission from the Lawndale congregation in Chicago during the 1950s. His brother, Margarito (Mac), is a pastor living in Davenport, Iowa. John Ventura is a minister in Denver, Colo., and Raul Tadeo is a missionary in Mexico. | ||
''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1975 Jul 10 p. 8 | |||
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Rev. Mario G. Bustos, 52. died June 2 at Goshen General Hospital where he had been a patient for two weeks. Death was caused by a kidney ailment. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, with Rev. Donald Brenneman officiating. The next day services were held at Lawndale Mennonite Church in Chicago where Rev. Bustos was also a minister. Rev. Ronald Collins officiated and burial took place in Glen Oak Cemetery, Chicago. | |||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1975 Jun 12 p. 3
Birth date: 1923
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Elkhart, Ind. (MBM) — Mario Bustos, 52, pastor of Iglesia del Buen Pastor (Church of the Good Shepherd) in Goshen, died Monday, June 2, at Goshen General Hospital.
Mario was ordained to the ministry in 1957 and moved in 1958 to give leadership to the new Spanish-speaking congregation in Milwaukee, Wis.
In 1972 after 14 years in Milwaukee, the Bustos family moved to Goshen where he became the pastor of the Iglesia del Buen Pastor. During the last three years the congregation acquired a new building in Goshen and moved its worship center there from New Paris.
Bustos was also instrumental in starting "La Casa," (The House), a ministry to Spanish-speaking persons in down-town Goshen. He served four years as a member of the Home Missions Committee of Mennonite Board of Missions and a biennium on the nominating committee for Mennonite Church General Assembly.
Besides his wife, the former Lupe Leon, four daughters and a son survive, along with two brothers and two sisters. Funeral services were scheduled for Iglesia del Buen Pastor, Goshen, and Lawndale Mennonite Church in Chicago, with burial in Chicago.
Mario Bustos was one of four persons who were sent out in special types of mission from the Lawndale congregation in Chicago during the 1950s. His brother, Margarito (Mac), is a pastor living in Davenport, Iowa. John Ventura is a minister in Denver, Colo., and Raul Tadeo is a missionary in Mexico.
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Rev. Mario G. Bustos, 52. died June 2 at Goshen General Hospital where he had been a patient for two weeks. Death was caused by a kidney ailment. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, with Rev. Donald Brenneman officiating. The next day services were held at Lawndale Mennonite Church in Chicago where Rev. Bustos was also a minister. Rev. Ronald Collins officiated and burial took place in Glen Oak Cemetery, Chicago.