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On July 16, 1962, while Merlin was registering students for English classes in the capital city, an Islamic mullah fatally stabbed him. | On July 16, 1962, while Merlin was registering students for English classes in the capital city, an Islamic mullah fatally stabbed him. | ||
Fellow missionary Harold Stauffer was also in the room registering students at the time of the attack, and the murderer turned to pursue him after felling Merlin. | |||
Dorothy heard the commotion and came to investigate. Her husband's killer turned from pursuing Stauffer and stabbed Dorothy in the abdomen. | |||
Bystanders intervened, and as the murderer fled the mission team ministered to Dorothy's wounds and took her to the hospital. | |||
Merlin Grove was buried the next day in a small Protestant corner of a Roman Catholic cemetery. The graveyard already held the tiny bodies of two Mennonite missionary children. | |||
After several months of recuperation, Dorothy grove and her children returned to Canada. | |||
"I was now a single parent with injuries and pain, unsure of my future health," Grove wrote in the ''Missionary Messenger'' article. "The verse, 'God is my refuge and strength in time of trouble,' was my comfort." | |||
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Revision as of 15:59, 13 October 2011
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Dec 13 p. 7
Birth date: 1926
text of obituary:
By Jewel Showalter
Eastern Mennonite missions
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Dorothy Grove, a mission worker whose husband was killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, by a radical Muslim cleric in 1962, died Nov. 6. She was 84.
Before going to Somalia with Eastern Mennonite Missions in 1960, Grove and her husband, Merlin, sold their Ontario farm business.
"Merlin felt a call to go to Somalia," Grove wrote in an article for Missionary Messenger in 2000. "We were assured that god had called us to this work."
In Somalia, the Groves immediately began service at the Mennonite mission's boarding school for boys in Mahaddei. Merlin worked as a teacher and administrator, while Dorothy home-schooled their three young children, helped mother boys in the boarding school and made friends in the nearby village.
The next year they moved to Mogadishu, where Merlin became director of the Mennonite mission.
On July 16, 1962, while Merlin was registering students for English classes in the capital city, an Islamic mullah fatally stabbed him.
Fellow missionary Harold Stauffer was also in the room registering students at the time of the attack, and the murderer turned to pursue him after felling Merlin.
Dorothy heard the commotion and came to investigate. Her husband's killer turned from pursuing Stauffer and stabbed Dorothy in the abdomen.
Bystanders intervened, and as the murderer fled the mission team ministered to Dorothy's wounds and took her to the hospital.
Merlin Grove was buried the next day in a small Protestant corner of a Roman Catholic cemetery. The graveyard already held the tiny bodies of two Mennonite missionary children.
After several months of recuperation, Dorothy grove and her children returned to Canada.
"I was now a single parent with injuries and pain, unsure of my future health," Grove wrote in the Missionary Messenger article. "The verse, 'God is my refuge and strength in time of trouble,' was my comfort."