Schwartz, Merle (1911-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Nov 11 p. 11

Birth date: 1911

Mission doctor dies at 91 after long career on African frontier

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.