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NORMAL, Ill. — Merle Schwartz, who served 37 years in the Congo as a missionary doctor, died Oct. 21. He was 91. | NORMAL, Ill. — Merle Schwartz, who served 37 years in the Congo as a missionary doctor, died Oct. 21. He was 91. | ||
Revision as of 08:47, 3 November 2010
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Nov 11 p. 11
Birth date: 1911
By Jim Bertsche
For AIMM and MMN
NORMAL, Ill. — Merle Schwartz, who served 37 years in the Congo as a missionary doctor, died Oct. 21. He was 91.
Schwartz and his wife, Dorothy, served from 1941 to 1977 as missionaries with Africa Inter-Mennonite mission in the Belgian Congo (later called Zaire) with the Commission on Overseas mission of the former General Conference Mennonite church.